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Articles in April 15, 2006 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Rims 2006
  by Jack Roberts
• JLT restructures
• Liability: design changes afoot
  by Charles H. Cox
• 'Premium' wars: the cold war over high-net-worth clients goes hot. Just who are AIG, Chubb and Fireman's Fund fighting over?
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Weather risk
• Many healthy returns: competition among medical malpractice carriers in the standard market is heating up. But using a captive remains a favorite way to hedge against volatility for which malpractice risk is notorious
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Upcoming events
• Brokers honored by Lloyd's: Lloyd's of London has recognized two U.S. brokers for their contribution to the Lloyd's market
• Spinning a cytokine storm: the likelihood of an avian flu pandemic is the subject of raging expert debate. Alarmists claim corporate America isn't doing enough to protect itself. Skeptics point to interests vested in whipping up hysteria. Either way, we h
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Unlocking the identity puzzle: are your customers friend or foe? Insurance companies and a variety of other industries are required to take precautions against accidentally doing business with terrorists and other enemies of state. But global language dif
  by Jack Hermansen
• Document management
• Shoring up the portfolio: Triple X rules drive Transamerica Reinsurance to add an onshore captive to its portfolio
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Diatribe 'degrading'
  by L. Wilson
• Talkin' Toms: Tom Golub, CEO of Beecher Carlson, says the marketplace has developed into a free-agent market where brokerage firms have to earn the loyalty and commitment of customers
  by Thomas Slattery
• Au Revoir, Oahu
  by Roger Crombie
• Targets of the avian trigger: travel, tourism, the poultry business and the hospitality sectors are especially vulnerable, according to analysts
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Called to account: Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff, the nation's top risk manager, looks back on mistakes made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He says his Homeland Security Department is prepared for the 2006 hurricane season
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Nat/cat funds: worthy cause
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Set-asides go skyward: Medicare's drug benefit creates sticker shock in WC settlements
  by Nancy Grover
• Willis Group Holdings Ltd
• Model apocalypse: the modeling firm Risk Management Solutions comes up with a new probabilistic influenza Pandemic Risk Model. Out of it comes one doozie of a scenario
  by Matthew Brodsky
• The taste of bittersweet: workers' comp rates have stabilized, but the cost per claim is surging and the gains of 2005 are under attack this year
  by Joshua Clifton
• RiskManagement
• Mitch on the move: folks aren't about to catch up with whirlwind Mitch Cantor, executive director of the ICCIE. More likely, he'll catch up with you
  by John McDonald
• A mixed bag of numbers
• How to avoid getting scalped
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Avian. Flu@edu: with so many people living in such close quarters, colleges and universities "act like giant petri dishes" in which a virus can grow and mutate. The paradox of some pandemics is that they are more likely to kill the healthiest am
  by Susan Gurevitz
• Nuke Duke to step aside: Quentin Jackson, president of Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd., steps aside in June. His departure ushers in a new era as successor David Ripsom takes the helm
  by Gregory DL Morris
• Liability
• Assertions painful
  by Daniel Brubaker
• HRH acquires Zutz
• The flaws of arbitration
  by Philip G. Kircher
• The carve-out solution: for years, it made sense to pool retirees with active employees for health-care benefits. But retirees today live longer and prescription-drug expenditures are increasing at a significant rate, driving explosive health-care costs.
  by Samuel H. Fleet
• Property/casualty
• Greener pastures: how Pamela Davis transformed her graduate thesis into a viable business model to protect nonprofits from liability
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Workers' comp coincidence? Study: states with best workers' comp outcomes have lowest medical costs
  by Patrick Harden
• Lockton Cos
• The avian contingency: some of the biggest names in the corporate world have decided it's wiser to develop a plan they may not need than to find out too late they need a plan they don't have
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Traction troubles: more than three years after the introduction of consumer-directed health plans, the jury is still out. Several factors are influencing enrollees' satisfaction levels
  by Mindy W. Toran
• Compliance
• New licenses issued dip by 14 percent: Vermont licensed 37 new captives in 2005, down from 43 the previous year. Health-care and redomestications lead the way
  by Thomas Slattery
• Interjections unwelcome
  by Jeffrey Gregg, L.
• U.K. broker battle
• Buffett less than 'oracular'
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Employers play benefits card: employers intent on cutting or capping employee benefits costs are finding organized labor still a force to be reckoned with, despite shrinking membership
  by Peter Mead
• Into the breach: underwriters expand data security and privacy protection with telecommunications as one key market. Some big communications companies say they still prefer to retain risk
  by Gregory D.L. Morris
• Nat/cat funds: subsidized folly
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Katrinas all around? Effects of global warming may be worse than thought
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Captive to regulation: be ready for investigation, expects say
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Flying on a wing and a prayer: avian flu losses sail below, above and between existing policies. Just how far coverage extends is anyone's guess
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• From promises to prime time: early adopters got into the Web-services game a while ago, but most insurers took a wait-and-see stance and held off for proof of performance. The time may now be ripe to get on board—but jumping on without a good strateg
  by David Meyer
• Reinsurance
• By the numbers: Vermont Captives 2005
  by Cyril Tuohy
• No winging it: an eating contest is not hard to swallow
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Transparency leaves some domiciles in a fix: fixed costs on the rise for fees to run a captive, new and small firms feel the brunt
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Facing killer terms: life insurers face massive payouts in the event of an outbreak of the avian flu. There is a silver lining as well: there would be a spike in demand for new life policies from survivors of the cytokine storm
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Quiet tension: decreased fatality statistics have helped keep prices fairly soft, but the nation's aging infrastructure is forcing some highway authorities to retain more risk. That may foreshadow future hardening of prices
  by John Otrompke
• Specialty coverage