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Articles in Jan, 2007 issue of Risk & Insurance

• The offshoring divide: rift has implications for workers' comp insurers who rely on third-party outsourcing
  by Angela Childers
• McQueary Henry Bowles Troy
• Crawling back from the brink: when a claims organization is infused with honesty and clarity, and supervisors have their noses buried in a diary, there's hope for happy endings
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Costs of LTD and STD claims begin to bite: pressure mounts on companies to institute return-to-work programs for short- and long-term disability
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Shareholders of Assurex Global, a network of independent insurance brokers representing $23 billion in premium volume, elected new officers at their annual meeting in October
• Cascading into Collapse: when lawyers and vendors make decisions about adjusting a claim at the expense of adjusters, it is the beginning of the end of a claims organization
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Project ERM
  by Ralph Kneisley
• Stephanie Hays has moved from wholesale and retail brokering to Swett & Crawford's Stephanie Hays Clearwater
• The E&S market softens up: the E&S market is softening, but a consensus as to whether it's gone soft is lacking. The biggest profits are expected to come from property-catastrophe areas
  by Angela Childers
• Gathering clout: program specialists were lost in the expansive sea of insurance until the TMPAA reeled them in
  by Erin Fogg
• Dilbertian exclusions
  by Roger Crombie
• A burden imposed heavyweights: California, Texas and Florida are applying stricter HIPAA standards to workers' comp medical bills. Other states are expected to follow suit, exacting a burden on payers
  by Tom Starner
• Just play ball
  by William Cormeny
• Derick M. Stitik
• The player: as head of Harbor Point Re, a member of the Bermuda Class of 2005, John Berger has drawn up a game plan for the reinsurer that's big on teamwork and discipline
  by Barbara A. Morris
• Insurance company software
• Upcoming events
• Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc
• Failing at failures: in the first of a four-part series, two writers explore how insurance insolvency laws and the guaranty-fund system are a patchwork of systemic shortcomings, inefficiency and a lack of political will. What to do?
  by James W. Schacht
• Hailing from …
• Door creaks open further
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Claims 2007: incremental progress: the coming year will be marked by "linear improvements" derived from the exploitation of known technologies, according to one analyst
  by George Grieve
• Feeling the headache
  by James J. Moore
• J.J. Morrow Jr., formerly a managing director of St. Paul Travelers Insurance Co. in Chicago, has joined Swett & Crawford's Chicago office as a property broker
• Closer and apart: new research and feedback from risk managers to identify the 2007 Power Brokers find buyers and brokers divided over compensation methods, yet united over disclosure
• Frank Crystal & Co
• 'Plus ca change' all over again?
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Margin calls: the just-in-time manufacturing process has helped manufacturers maintain profit margins, but it has also eroded the safety margin built into supply chains
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• One fractured mess
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Graham Co
• Time to take ourselves seriously
  by Beaumont Vance
• Industry risk report: manufacturing
  by Matthew Brodsky