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Articles in April 1, 2008 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Mich. allows captives
• Street smarts
• Boston Insurance Brokerage Inc
• At Liberty to go long: Liberty Mutual's reinsurance chief extols freedom from those quarterly crosshairs and slams efforts to put the federal government in the catastrophe risk business
  by Steve Tuckey
• FM Global
• National Flood Insurance Program: keep it afloat: providing flood insurance is a worthy role of government, deserving of reform and reauthorization by Congress
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Marsh & MeLennan Cos. Inc
• E-signature slumber: time is running out for carriers and agency management vendors as a younger generation looks to sign on the electronic bottom line
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Keyboards and criminals
• Steady-state, steady-flow: brokers and buyers may have differing perceptions of good customer service, but a lesson in physics proves why it might balance out
  by Dan Reynolds
• Backward into the future
  by Roger Crombie
• Former sec chairman warns of tougher job ahead for D&O underwriters: a 'shifting environment' will force underwriters to reassess risks and pricing of D&O insurance
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Best addresses takaful
• Willis Group Holdings Ltd
• A hard' convention welcome: the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. can't wait to return to the warm confines of San Diego for its annual convention after a couple of soft years
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Century Healthcare
• Specialty Risk Services
• Fairly focused
• Worth repeating
• Painkillers out of control
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Public nuisance: a new battleground for policyholders and insurers: the current wave of public nuisance-based tort litigation is focused on two areas, lead paint and global warming
  by Donna L. Wilson
• AIG seeks court motion
• Upcoming events
• Choose a nat-cat side
• Beecher Carlson
• Directory: third party administrators
• Saving money by saving money
  by Aaron Krauss
• Industry risk report nonprofits
  by Dan Reynolds
• Zurich
• World's oldest profession?
  by Beaumont Vance
• Climate change debate rages
• Aon Construction Services Group
• Jury finds against ESIS
• Dominance in dispute: Bermuda, once the reinsurance industry's unassailable leader, has seen its margin of leadership trimmed as other domiciles compete for premiums and the government looks to diversify the island's economy beyond carriers, reinsurers an
  by Roger Crombie
• Brit. quake damage light
• A model of innovation: the future in catastrophe modeling could be open-source software that's powerful, flexible but perhaps impractical
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Hilb Rogal & Hobbs
• FM Global then appointed Michael R. Turner as senior vice president and manager of its Eastern Division, succeeding Hall
• National Flood Insurance Program: drown it: by the very nature of its structure, the bankrupt and unwieldy program is unworkable
  by Dan Reynolds
• Valley Oak Systems Inc
• Lockton
• Learn from Vince Lombardi
  by Tom Slattery
• A question of faith: after a decade of penance highlighted by million-dollar misconduct settlements, churches accept their responsibility and adopt more serious risk management programs but have yet to make believers out of the insurance markets
  by Dan Reynolds
• Feeling insecure
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Risk forecasting
• Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP
• Beecher Carlson Inc
• Dishin' dirt on the property data: garbage in, garbage out, as they say about CAT models. And what they also say now is that the smell is coming from you, risk managers. Is this fair, or is everyone shoveling the garbage?
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Pandemics risk transfer
• Keep an eye on the flock: human infections of H5N1 avian influenza fell last year, but outbreaks in poultry surged
  by Erin Gazica
• DMEC helps soldiers
• Guy Carpenter & Co
• A class apart: successful professionals don't always have the traditional educational background that you'd expect. A look at a few of our brightest 2008 Power Brokers highlights the advantages of schooling outside the classroom
  by Erin Gazica
• Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co
• Global warming—to a $225 billion opportunity: carbon-trading markets offer a big new opportunity for the financial services sector but rising oceans could also mean billions of dollars in insured losses
  by Dan Reynolds