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Articles in May, 2007 issue of Risk & Insurance

• Health Care
• Producing fresh produce: new FDA guidelines for handling and processing fresh produce significant for the entire food chain
  by Matthew Brodsky
• A grassroots movement
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Stiffed—by an everyday breeze: a few nails make a world of difference in keeping a roof secure and avoiding catastrophe-like property losses in average winds
  by Erin Fogg
• Hot topic: the climate changes : climate change is no longer a what-if question for insurers
  by Steve Smith
• Sedgwick
• Redevelopment
• He should know
  by Karl Rubinstein
• Keeping kids safe: N.J.-based brokerage marks 60 years of providing student accident insurance
  by Erin Fogg
• Let sleeping dogs lie
  by Tom Slattery
• 122 Ninth Wards? A recent report on levees suggests 122 across the country are in disrepair. And flood risk was already overlooked enough
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Loss control: leadership vs. disasters: plan, recruit, communicate and use positive reinforcement to ensure your crisis management plan works
  by Harry Nolan
• Max Re
• Tow trucks
• Coingate Phase II: managed care organizations: task force takes aim at its newest target in the workers' comp investigation
  by Erin Fogg
• Willis Re
• Shredding apart high-value targets: a Northeast hurricane could drown New York City and parts of New England, and sink a few insurance and reinsurance carriers as well, with losses as high as $100 billion
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Risk oddities: the likelihood that any of these risks would come to pass is remote enough for even the most obscure of Lloyd's underwriters to venture a pass
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Everybody into the pool: supporters of pooling mechanisms to buy insurance say they've been one of the insurance industry's big success stories
  by Susan Gurevitz
• Nanotechnology
• Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc
• The constant battle
  by Roger Crombie
• Think twice before striking back; discrimination suits aren't likely to take an employer under, but retaliation against complaining employees is a risk that's often overlooked
  by Jack Roberts
• ERM sustaining the advantage: on tap: risk managers from Cisco Systems, Becton Dickinson and Coca-Cola reveal how to manage risk in a value-added way
  by Beaumont Vance
• Max Re Capital Ltd
• Workplace class actions cost more: report: workplace suits emerged in 2006 as top legal risk
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Marsh Inc
• Taken for granted: asking a lot of "what-ifs" can hurt one's head, but that's all in a day's work for risk managers. Or should be
  by Cyril Tuohy
• The invisible contingency: the most insidious risk isn't one lurking in the company's backyard, but is instead an invisible disruptive ripple across town or over the horizon. That makes contingent business interruption one of the most frequently overlooke
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• A Cypriot game: risk mgmt. and shifting cargo: for liability coverage to third parties, shipping manager Arthur R.T. McWhinnie turns to the P&I clubs, the remote descendants of the small hull insurance clubs created by British shipowners in the 18th c
  by Paula L. Green
• Upcoming events
• Not a minor labor law violation: child labor laws a problem point for employers, says study
  by Barbara Worthington
• Aon Corp
• Unaccustomed to foreign customs: globalization means more companies are doing business abroad, but it also thrusts upon a risk manager a world to which she is unfamiliar
  by Paula L. Green
• You can always go brown-town: brownfields could play a role in the revitalization of New Orleans, and not for the reasons you think
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Modeling
• Hank Greenberg: never sell him short
  by Jack Roberts
• Selling your genius
  by Beaumont Vance
• Short circuits of the network: internet crimes are really just another form of old-fashioned theft. But the stakes are higher as data has become a commodity to be traded to the highest bidder
  by Jack Roberts
• Scrap the checklist: the "checklist" approach to validating a risk management program is not enough, Managers need instead to turn to enterprise risk management techniques to improve their risk management programs
  by Evan R. Busman
• The National League of Cities' Mutual Insurance Corp
• Worth repeating
• D&O
• More captives shell out for fronting, reinsurance fees: survey finds a big jump in the percentage of captives paying more
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Van Gilder Insurance Corp
• Untangling the mysteries of employee performance: the eventual goal of catching employees before their breaking point is on hiatus while disability managers grapple with the ever-changing field of behavioral risk management
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Odorless vapors: an insidious intruder: the foul smell of vapor intrusion is wafting through the environmental insurance world. Federal regulators say the problem affects 439,000 sites nationwide
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Smart catches up with thin and rich: proponents of so-called "smart client" applications claim they're more efficient because they bring the objectives of claims and risk management closer
  by Mindy W. Toran
• AIR Worldwide Corp
• Small is bountiful … and well received: perhaps one of Vermont's best-kept secrets is that it's home to a lot more captives writing less than $1 million in annual premium than it is to those writing more than $500 million in premium
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Beecher Carlson
• Catastrophe
• Sucking you dry
  by Cyril Tuohy
• You're fired!
  by Philip G. Kircher
• Rain on your parade? Yes, please: sprinklers may be a fixture in U.S. building codes, but companies are overlooking the best defense against fire losses in their newly acquired overseas locations
  by Erin Fogg
• Due diligence makes the leap: silos to ERM: the mergers-and-acquisitions market is at historic heights of activity, but that also means more is on the line if an M&A fails. Enterprise risk management can come to the rescue during the due-diligence pro
  by Peter Teuten
• The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America
• Municipalities
• Lockton Cos
• Captive growth prospects: offshore: the captive industry is primed for growth, but the greatest opportunities lie abroad
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co
• Greenberg: musings on the buy side: Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former CEO of AIG, says that for risk managers who just remain insurance buyers, the future is bleak. But for those who grow into real professionals, the opportunities are boundless
  by Maurice Greenberg
• Stewardship betrayed: the most overlooked risk in America is when the very managers entrusted with the stewardship of the government or a corporation, whether by hubris or intent, come up short
  by Jack Roberts
• Surviving the end of world: for insurers, one lesson of recent catastrophes is to respect the return periods. But should low-probability, high-severity disasters that might never happen really concern risk management? The true lesson could be to lay off t
  by Matthew Brodsky
• The Farmers Insurance Group of Cos