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Articles in Nov, 2007 issue of Risk & Insurance

• TJX settles
• Networks, hierarchies sitting in tree
• U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc
• Remember to restock, or else
  by Roger Crombie
• Funds rife with conflicts of interest: from California to Rhode Island, state-sponsored workers' compensation insurers suffer from the brazen misdeeds of managerial appointees. Our columnist offers remedies that are basic, but routinely ignored
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Get my drift: take your captive offshore: offshore domiciles have stood the test of time. They will be there for corporations long into the future, just as they have over the past 50 years
  by Ron Sulisz
• Regulator appointed
• Wikiphilia: risk-conscious pros get wired into Web 2.0
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Integro
• Automakers 1, plaintiffs 0
  by Philip G. Kircher
• The utilization side of the story: utilization management is an increasingly important component of controlling pharmaceutical costs. No wonder workers' compensation PBMs are multiplying like rabbits
  by Maddy Bowling
• Rate increases dip
• Stop dragging your feet
• Max Palmer managing director Marsh New York
• File a claim, get deported?
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Eight mistakes you ought to hate: when rates decline, remember to stay disciplined and resist falling prey to temptation
  by Frank Pennachio
• Stay put: keep your domicile domestic: U.S. federal and state legislation since 1986 have done a lot more to make domestic captives attractive for insurers
  by Ted Hall
• Lloyd's delivers
• Aon study registers CDH uptick: driven, directed, whatever you call them—CDHs are taking off
  by Dan Reynolds
• Willis Group Holdings Ltd
• Blissfully blinded by models
  by Beaumont Vance
• Fox trots up to the plate: KBR's David Fox lists passion, creativity and a commitment to communities as key elements in his tool box
  by Dan Reynolds
• Injury intervention at work
• Hospital performance mixed, survey finds: institutions score well on transparency, but still have a long way to go in implementing standards to help patients avoid hospital-acquired infections
  by Dan Reynolds
• Vitale switches camps
• Out of many, one: centralized management and a program that empowers employees is creating success
  by Dan Reynolds
• Out of the ashes: another failure? That government failed the rescue, recover and cleanup workers of Sept. 11 is doubtless. Whether all levels of government can learn from their mistakes before the next catastrophe is the real "if."
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Marsh's storm clouds
  by Jack Roberts
• Ringing endorsement for integration
• Diverse and perfect: Kudos for Aon's treatment of GLBT community
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Clapping continues for Lockton
• The rise and fall of second injury funds: unintended consequences have led to unforeseen costs, and legislatures are striving to limit the payout of second injury funds
  by Robert K. Briscoe
• Workers' compensation & directory
• Willis as Isaac Newton
• The top 5
• Lockton
• Fall cleaning
  by Tom Slattery
• Thinking hard on mental illness: the American Psychiatric Association unveiled new psychiatric tools for return-to-work this past summer. Our resident workers' comp and behavioral health guru has let them sink in and is ready to provide his two cents
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Rockhill picks up RTW
• Section 404's divergent impacts: survey finds individual risk management departments divorced from requirements of section 404
  by Cyril Tuohy
• HUB to pick up Totten
• The cost controllers: absorbing the impact of two big mergers, the resilience of AT&T's Teddy Award-winning workers' compensation and disability management programs is a tribute to the teamwork that spawned them
  by Michelle Kerr
• Data, privacy and the risk chain: how to secure information held by vendors … and their vendors … and their vendors …
  by Pearlman Peter
• Stopping the violence spiral
• Europe raises the environmental stakes: countries take an inconsistent approach to a new EU directive
  by Dan Reynolds
• HRH to acquire bank branch
• Flushing out the frequent flyers: Houston Independent School District claims manager Tom Dolan knew it was time to act when one employee had 17 claims in five years. How he dispelled such "frequent flyers" is what gained the district a 2007 Tedd
  by Susan Gurevitz
• A confederacy Of techies: the sale of Policy Management Systems Corp. nearly a decade ago has given birth to a new generation of insurance software companies in and around Columbia, S.C
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Comp in Iraq
• Performing under pay pressure: with the compensation issue ever-simmering, brokers and risk managers discuss performance-based pay
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Lockton Brokers benevolence
• Giving costs the boot: a federal workers' compensation case management team has slashed future long-term liability at a U.S. Army installation from around $60 million to $27 million
  by Melissa Turley
• Trickledown wrap-up tricks: midsized construction projects may benefit from an insurance approach long used at the largest sites. A careful analysis will show if this approach makes sense for specific projects
  by Jack Probolus