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Articles in April 15, 2005 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Worksite life insurance sales by line of business in 2002 and 2003
• John B. Collins Associates Inc
• Educating Roger
  by Roger Crombie
• Employers seeing the link between healthy employees and a healthy bottom line
• Willis Re US
• The race for the middle market: captive insurance options for middle market firms and small businesses have exploded as the scandals plaguing the regular commercial insurance industry renew interest in setting up shop onshore where regulators are less lik
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Workers' comp
  by Jim Bourgeois
• SOX-era coverage tough to come by: D&O liabilities have increased with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; just about every corporate director and officer knows that. But what they perhaps didn't expect was the difficulty of finding carriers to come up with polic
  by John Otrompke
• Oops, insurance carriers did it again: eight carriers get a taste of pop tart Britney Spears who is suing them because they rejected a claim in excess of $9.8 million she filed after injuring her knee during a video shoot during her "Onyx Hotel Tour.
  by Steve Yahn
• Profiles in security: a high-tech risk management software application used only by government agencies so far can help public entities and private companies better protect themselves from catastrophic losses in the event of a terrorist attack. Ideal for
  by Tom Starner
• Beecher Carlson's
• Should I stay, and should I grow? Two companies from opposite ends of the country began their hunt for a magic potion to help slow premium increases. In one instance, a corporate giant decides to expand its captive experiment. In another, management decid
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• An upstart steals the show: how did ASU International's new film venture outfox Hollywood underwriting giant Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. and steal an account worth millions? The right people, the right paper—and some exceptionally good timing
  by Steve Yahn
• At long last, credit insurance gets its due
  by John Williams
• Brentwood Services Administrators Inc
• Upcoming events
• A call to leadership
  by Jack Roberts
• Report: insurers expected to emerge unscathed from tsunami: despite the "light" cat losses from tidal wave, 2004 a record-breaking year
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Dodging the crossfire: as media platforms expand in scope and complexity, so do the new challenges falling on the shoulders of risk executives in the entertainment industry. Exposure to errors and omissions liability is high, and getting higher. Fortunate
  by Steve Yahn
• Smells like team spirit: by establishing "central risk teams," Caesars Entertainment has developed a strategy for accountability at the management level. These teams, headed by a chief risk professional, enable internal auditors to coordinate an
  by Lance J. Ewing
• RSM McGladrey
• Cheshire cat: meet Dan J. Labrie. He runs a company in Cheshire, Conn., that insures public housing authorities. The Housing Authority Insurance Group is domiciled in Vermont and provides liability insurance for housing authorities in 43 states. Labrie co
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Agents/brokers
  by Tim Dodge
• Worth repeating
• Bright lights, big risks: for hot entertainers and other types of celebrities, media exposure is desirable, but other kinds of exposure are not. Hence the need for a unique breed of financial "bodyguard"—agents who tend to the specialized f
  by Steve Yahn
• Born to write code: it's a story straight out of Silicon Valley: A 5-year-old boy begins programming; gets a job writing code in high school; starts up a software company in college; secures venture capital funding and then turns an industry on its head.
  by Michael Fitzpatrick
• Meet the flockers: executives at three companies say the liberal regulatory laws are among the most important reasons for trekking to Vermont to set up a captive insurance operation
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Terrorist planning report leaked to public: the White House is taking steps to better manage the risks associated with potential terrorist attacks. But it apparently still has a long way to go managing internal document security
  by Michelle Kerr
• Insuring the flesh
  by Steve Yahn
• Guessing game jitters: as companies cut costs and boost productivity by using complex inventory management techniques, they may be unwittingly putting themselves at risk for a property loss—their own, or that of a key supplier. This murky pool of unk
  by Paula L. Green
• Beecher Carlson Holding, Inc
• RMIS
• Aon to pay $190 million settlement
• A wicked strain: the projected number of U.S. deaths as a result of an influenza pandemic is more than 1.7 million over an 18-month period. Nearly half of those victims will be between the ages of 15 and 44. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  by Michael T. Osterholm
• North Carolina wants AIG probe
• Rebuilding effort seeks support
• A painful circus
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Old, wiser, and on the job: the current workforce is brimming with baby boomers and many of them are postponing retirement, either by choice or by circumstance. This is a boon for employers in terms of retaining skilled and experienced workers, but with t
  by Marybeth Stevens
• Careless risk execs who could bury you: while tornadoes start tearing up the Midwest every spring, and hurricanes hit the East Coast hardest as summer ends, earthquakes don't follow that kind of pattern. That may lull some risk managers into a false sense
  by John Williams
• Benefits
• The Hartford honored
• Seduced by Stardom
  by Steve Yahn
• This manager has no plans to retire
  by Anne Freedman
• Carlson Holdings Inc
• Property
• MetLife acquires Citigroup business
• Charting a new course
  by Christopher Kende
• The numbers game begins to shift
  by John Otrompke
• 'Gimme shelter': construction and engineering firms are crying "gimme shelter" as they seek to manage their risks amid a lack of insurance capacity, tighter coverage restrictions and a storm of litigation in the housing market
  by Michael Fitzpatrick
• Disability Management
• Common cents: a primer
  by Charles H. Cox
• A Wisconsin firm braces for impact
  by John Otrompke
• Condos, 'big digs,' and other hazards of the building trades: the hardened insurance market hammered the construction industry and the building trades, leaving firms scrambling to find coverage and products insurers were once eager to sell. Because of the
  by John Otrompke
• Property/casualty