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Articles in August, 2004 issue of Risk & Insurance

• United National Group Ltd
• The Hartford's top 25 drugs in 2003 workers' compensation: ranked by total $ costs
• Fiduciary risk: a sleeper awakes: as the number of retirement-related lawsuits explodes in the wake of corporate meltdowns, so has the demand for fiduciary liability insurance. Corporate insurance buyers lucky enough to find such products at decent prices
  by Len Strazewski
• American International Group Inc
• In praise of an ASP
  by Thomas G. Platt
• Left in a bind
  by Jay Levin
• Rolling the dice
  by Mindy W. Toran
• Word & Brown
• Worth repeating
• A mundane menace emerges
  by Kristine Sorensen Griffin
• Charter Partners USA Inc
• New regulatory axis irks British risk executives
  by Graham Buck
• Reeling in smaller players
  by Bonnie McGeer
• Guy Carpenter & Co. Inc
• Placement Service Agreements cheat insurance buyers: insurance buyers get short-changed at the expense of the very people supposedly representing them
• Placement Service Agreements are just "not an issue": a broker's close relationship with a carrier adds value for the buyer of commercial insurance
• Crushing California comp costs spur creativity: a car dealership defrays the cost by levying a $2.50 surcharge to help pay comp increase of $240,000
  by Jennifer L. Gatewood
• Stirring the alphabet soup
  by Thomas J. Slattery
• Cozen O'Connor
• Upcoming events
• Vaulting Olympic risk: for the first time, the International Olympic Committee takes out a multimillion-dollar policy to hedge against cancellation at the 2004 Olympic Summer Games in Athens. The move ushers in a new era for the IOC, which intends to insu
  by Graham Buck
• Ace Usa
• The Democratic presidential ticket is not counting on much support from the insurance community
  by Jack Roberts
• Corrections
• Coming up for air: environmental insurance needs to broaden its base if it is ever to grow beyond a limited specialty. A broader view, however, will take time to catch on because of the gap in understanding between agents and brokers
  by Karl Russek
• Markel Corp
• Merger gives St. Paul Travelers 'critical mass' in global arena: executives give global insurance products a makeover, a sign that the new company is serious about competing overseas
  by Tom Slattery
• Taxiing for takeoff: recent applications to fund benefits captives have been approved in record time. Several pending applications before the U.S. Department of Labor will signal to the markets just how serious regulators are about approving alternative f
  by Peter Mead
• David Morse & Associates
• Praising implementation
  by Darwin M. Irish
• Safety enrolls in business school
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Talkin' tablets: 'topping' the laptop: for claims adjusters who poke around accident scenes for a living, laptop computers have turned into big flops. Their hinged covers and keyboards make them unwieldy and impractical. Tablet personal computers aim to p
  by Tom Starner
• Hartford Financial Services Group Inc
• Backward thinking
  by Alan Kornman
• Dispute resolution at whose cost?
  by Charles H. Cox
• A ripened talent: a farm boy from Minnesota with a passion for autocross finds himself in charge of risk management for an agribusiness conglomerate. His journey has taught him that managing risks in the tomato industry is no small potatoes
  by Mindy Toran
• The Frank Gates Service Co