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Articles in August, 2005 issue of Risk & Insurance

• RRGs on the rise
• Off to a slow start: offering federal exemptions to captives to encourage the administration of ERISA-regulated benefits has met an unexpectedly tepid response. Many companies are still interested in creating captives, especially if they can find simpler
  by Peter Mead
• Oh Noe!
  by Cyril Tuohy
• TPA buyers' guide
• A call for reason this season
  by Richard Mackowsky
• Tort questions
• AIRMIC 2005: offstage rumblings change the agenda; this year's conference of U.K. risk managers showed insurance buyers want brokers to come clean on remuneration
  by Graham Buck
• Untangling Web services: Web services for the insurance industry are maturing, and companies are taking a closer look at their applications for outsourcing certain functions. Some kinks in the system remain, in particular compliance. Carriers' best bet is
  by Rodney Griffin
• Taking their slice out of the IT pie
• Out from behind the front: in the wake of a severe shortage of fronting insurers for captives a few years ago, more and more companies are trying to reduce their dependence on fronts—either by setting up risk retention groups or by writing business d
  by Patricia Vowinkel
• Safeguards lacking
• 'Coingate' rattles Ohio comp bureau; the story surrounding the missing millions is filled with enough intrigue, politics and white-collar crime to make for a sizzling suspense novel
  by Michelle Kerr
• Did Spitzer miss High Noon? Eliminating contingent commissions is a more complex directive than it seems on the surface. Many brokers and carriers are turning a deaf ear to the call for change, especially in the employee benefits arena
  by Peter Mead
• Worth repeating from IASA 2005
• Brewing season for 'cane alchemists: this year's hurricane season may churn out even more storms than last year's historic season, according to forecasts. But predictions will mean squat to insurers if all these storms stay out to sea
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Upcoming events
• Back to the future of technology trends: the insurance industry is on a quest for the "Holy Grail" of technology—that will, basically, bring it up to date with the 21st century
  by Matthew Brodsky
• Honoring a former leader's worthy legacy: Risk & Insurance® renames a popular award program in honor of a former president who, nearly 100 years ago, urged Congress to pass the Federal Employers' Liability Act. In doing so, Theodore Roosevelt did
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Property/casualty
• Risk & Insurance® rocks the house at ASBPE; takes top design honors
• Webinars
• Apologist or hyperbolist?
  by Kim Holtorff
• Fighting over 'Canseco dollars'
  by Roger Crombie
• Brokering on integrity: Integro, an ambitious new commercial brokerage headed by three former top Marsh executives, seeks to create a new kind of broker that will target the largest companies and the most complex risks. Integro's aim isn't to be the bigge
  by Jack Roberts
• Gallagher settles
• Risk floods the pipeline; America needs more natural gas. Other countries want to sell it to us. It's getting it here and into the pipelines that presents the risk, some of it physical but much of it political
  by Michael Fitzpatrick
• Liability
• Banks gamble with opposite aproaches to the market; either way, they appear to have made a difference
  by Cyril Tuohy
• Billing
• Document imaging
• House standoff
• Navigating the Rocks of Dim
  by Peter Rousmaniere
• Property/casualty
• Comp funds for jockeys
  by Terry Hendrickson
• Meet a man of rigor who can deliver; Michael Turcotte is not only director of risk management for one of Canada's largest media companies, he's also credited with being the brains behind RIMS Canada's Web strategy
  by David Kosub
• Spitzer a savior?
• The fast track to better health: while disease management programs focus on the 20 percent of the workforce that drives 80 percent of health-care costs, population health management programs focus on the remaining 80 percent of employees who are currently
  by John Williams
• Hurricane risk
• State forms