Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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2008 Broker RankingsSee Business Insurances 37th annual broker profiles and rankings, as well as stories about the conditions risk managers and brokers are facing in the current economic environment. Click here. |
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2008 RIMS NewsBusiness Insurance continues its San Diego RIMS news coverage online. From local fare to daily event happenings, read the complete coverage of RIMS 2008. CLICK HERE |
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BIE 100The BIE 100 is a groundbreaking project compiled by the staff of Business Insurance Europe that offers unique detail on the senior executives responsible for risk and insurance management at Europe’s 100 largest companies ranked by 2006 gross revenues. Click here to read more. |
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Gen Re Finite Trial CoverageBI has the latest on the convictions of five former executives of General Re Corp. and American International Group Inc. by a jury in federal court in Hartford, Conn.Click here to view the coverage. |
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2008 Risk Manager of the YearAdvocate Health Care’s Scott H. Beckman takes top honors. Read in-depth profiles of Mr. Beckman plus profiles of Risk Management Honor Roll inductees Jeffrey F. Driver of Stanford University Medical Center and Mark A. Meyerhoff of Boeing Co. here. |
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Building Captives UPGo indepth with Business Insurance's spotlight report on the captive industry. We tackle such topics as health care and captives, EU regulations and expansion of coverages in captives. CLICK HERE |
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Spotlight on DiversityBusiness Insurance examines diversity in the commercial insurance industry in a roundtable discussion with three chief diversity officers—the only ones we could find among companies in the commercial insurance market. CLICK HERE |
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Listen to This!"This Week in Business Insurance" is a new weekly podcast that reviews the headlines in each new issue of BI and interviews reporters for in-depth insights to the top stories of the week. Listen to these audio reports online. |
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Weighing WellnessBusiness Insurance reporter Joanne Wojick delves into a three-part series on wellness in the workplace and employers' responsibility to employees. |
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Stories From This Week's Issue
SAN FRANCISCO—A fifth appeals court ruling that cash balance pension
plans do not violate age discrimination law almost certainly ends yea...
BATON ROUGE, La.—Louisiana insurance regulators' efforts to help public entities avoid significant cuts in disaster financial aid under a fede...
ATLANTA—A pollution exclusion in a professional liability insurance policy applies even if the policyholder does not cause the pollution, the ...
Soft pricing, lower investment income and higher catastrophe losses are pressuring the earnings of major U.S. commercial property/casualty in...
MELBOURNE, Fla.—Tropical Storm Fay plodded across Florida late last week, making its third landfall in the Sunshine State in five days, accomp...
The number of workplace fatalities in the United States fell in 2007, but the number of workplace homicides increased, according to the Bureau...
BURLINGTON, Vt.—The appointment earlier this year of Vermont's first new top captive regulator since 1990 won't change the domicile's regulato...
DENVER—Cisco Systems Inc. is testing an outreach program that includes a Web-based assessment to help employees suffering from stress, anxiety...
Enterprise risk management has been widely discussed as a critical tool for businesses and is becoming increasingly important to regulators an...
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