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Articles in May, 2004 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Quote of the month
  by Duane Deal
• Nowhere to hide
  by Len Strazewski
• Court limits recovery
• Worth repeating
• A time to lead: the next frontier for PRIMA and its new president, Cindy Davis, will be educating some of the organization's newer members who have joined since Sept. 11. They include small towns, municipalities and other public entities that don't have f
  by Susan Gurevitz
• Risk management & benefits consultants buyer's guide
• Jordans sue over mold at Highland Park home; homeowners with mold problems: you are not alone. Michael Jordan—millionaire athlete, marketer, mansion owner—understands your frustration
  by Mickey Ciokajlo
• Three's company: for now, incremental change is the only chance for insurance industry reform coming out of Washington. Given the fractious nature of the industry and the archaic laws which govern it, that may end up pleasing no one
  by Lisa Sandberg
• Thinking of caps
  by Denise H. Houghton
• 'Work as therapy': Sue S. Keener, workers' compensation guru, prevents employees from turning "soft and squishy."
  by Paula L. Green
• Agents & brokers at odds: a federal charter goes too far; fix state insurance regulations and we'll all be better off, a coalition of independent brokers claims
• Broker to move to new HQ
• Workers' comp disparities called 'perverse': at a recent hearing, Postmaster General John Potter illustrated the disparities in the United States Postal Service's workers' comp benefit system
  by Kathleen Filipczyk
• NASA under siege
  by Ann Deering
• Agents & brokers at odds: implement a federal charter now; a federal charter is "essential" to the insurance industry, say the brokerage community's big guns
  by Markham McKnight
• TRIA extension favored
• RRGs' global hegemony
  by Roger Crombie
• Crossing their fingers: whatever price the marketplace will dictate this time around, risk managers Craig Smith and Nancy L. Chambers feel they've done their duty in their fight to keep the impact on taxpayers to a minimum
  by Cyril Tuohy
• A wallet's wallop: will consumers force the cost of health care down if they have to use more of their own cash to pay for it? That's one of the big questions behind the move toward consumer-directed health plans. But will this strategy prove any more eff
  by Russ Allen
• Former CIAB leader calls for immediate reform; influencial voice dismisses state regulators as too slow in a fast changing world
• Upcoming events
• Strange bedfellows
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Flying high: thanks to Boeing's job modification initiative, the company now enjoys a tenfold return on its injury reduction investments. It's also enjoying big boosts in productivity and employee-employer relations
  by Dan McCue
• From the editor
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Hospitals headed the way of managed care? With hospital costs over the past two years a leading indicator of health care inflation, the employee benefits world has been designing new controls modeled after managed care. But this time around, the benefits
  by John Otrompke
• Choppy waters: John Keogh, president and CEO of National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., the nation's leading writer of directors' and officers' liability insurance, calls the D&O market "unpredictable." He sat recently for
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• New comp cost study
• Jury out on HIPAA and claims: when Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in 1996, the risk management community perceived it as regulating health insurance coverage provided as part of an employee benefits package
  by Joe Mangan
• Keeping a vital practice alive: Indiana Lumbermens Mutual Co. recognized that without a process in place for improving risk selection, the company would continue to struggle in today's economic climate. Given its situation, ILM knew it had to explore risk
  by Dave Walters