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Articles in April 1, 2004 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Calendar of upcoming events
• New horizons for employers
  by Len Strazewski
• That settles IT! Delays in reporting claims are the source of many workers' comp costs and a little help from Web-based technology can cut reporting times from days to minutes, according to a proponent of Internet-based claims processing
  by Rodney Griffin
• Weather derivatives: call them insurance: defrocking weather derivatives and classifying them as what they are, insurance products, can only serve to benefit the public, claims the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
• Policy administration
• Monty python's shameless reinsurance circus
  by Roger Crombie
• Converting bits and bytes: data conversions have become more frequent. Yet, many insurance companies are not very good at it, argues one expert, who offers guidance in navigating the pitfalls of data conversion
  by Jerry Kaul
• Worth repeating …
• Going postal means still going strong
  by Kathleen Filipczyk
• Insurance exit strategies: the use of tools increasingly available to manage the risk of developing contaminated real estate include a guaranteed-price cleanup and environmental insurance, which pays for unforeseen liability and cost overruns
  by Bill Stoneman
• Workforce management
• To the editor
  by Tad DeOrio
• After TRIA, what price terror? The federal reinsurance backstop program has entered its second year, but it expires at the end of 2005. That means policies issued in January 2005 would still be in effect after the expiration of TRIA, leaving insurance com
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Claims management
• Beware of liberal language
  by Charles H. Cox
• Ducking the taxman: the growth in numbers of RRGs formed by non-profit health care organizations to respond to a lack of primary liability coverage in the commercial market is striking. For many non-profits, a key concern in forming a captive RRG is to ac
  by Kevin Moriarty
• Weather derivatives: call them anything but: contracts concluded in the weather derivatives market are swaps, forwards and other contracts that do not involve the payment of premium. Therefore, they should not be defined as insurance
  by Brian O'Hearne
• Risk infiltrates Madison Avenue
• A class evolves and matures: during a roundtable meeting hosted by Marsh & McLennan Cos., five of the largest environmental insurance companies in the world discussed the state of the environmental insurance marketplace. This is an edited version of t
• A different perspective on risk in San Diego
  by Michelle Kerr
• Web services
• A passage to India
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Through the lens sharply: insurance, reinsurance and brokerage community professionals highlight the differences in how they approach risk
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Workers' comp
• Disabled racecar driver kills worker
• Tribal warfare: a Native American tribe raises the hopes of compensation managers desperate for lower insurance premiums, but instead winds up incurring the wrath of California regulators
  by Bruce Shutan
• Boom time for voluntary benefits: for employers, voluntary benefits are a matter of economics. For employees, it's a matter of priorities
  by Neal Lucchi
• Medical malpractice insurance, 1993-2002
• Stepping up: Canadian Nancy L. Chambers will become the new president of RIMS after her election this month. She'll need the skills of a diplomat to navigate all the constituencies that RIMS serves
  by Cyril Tuohy
• TPA buyers' guide