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Recent risk management Expert Commentary

Things To Know about Captive Insurance Companies—Don Riggin provides a "CliffsNotes" style understanding of captives and their uses.

Is Self-Administration Ever the Right Answer?—Glenn Brown explores the decision-making process along with the risks, rewards, and challenges of administering your own claims.

Credit Crisis and Insurance Companies—Jeff Balcombe discusses the impact of the recent economic turmoil on the valuation of companies operating in the insurance industry.

Where Was Enterprise Risk Management?—Chris Duncan looks at what can we learn from the current financial debacle to make ERM more effective in the future.

Opinion of Counsel after Broadcom v. Qualcomm—Sanford Warren shows why obtaining a validity or non-infringement opinion from counsel is a good idea.

Construction Blasting Fundamentals—Peter Furst provides the basics on commercial explosives, blast physics, rock properties, construction blast design and techniques.

Coverage Trigger: Getting It Right for the Right Reason—Steve Rawls shows why an injury-in-fact or actual injury trigger is the only trigger theory he believes is supported by the CGL policy.

IRMI Insights

Recent articles on risk management and insurance

Florida Flirting with Hurricane Insurance Disaster (August 2008)—Brent Winans, a Florida insurance agent and consultant, discusses Florida's use of a hurricane catastrophe fund to cover the risk of costal storm losses, the inherent risks to taxpayers, and some of the facts that lawmakers might consider when dealing with the situation. Like other risk professionals, he expresses concern that the current system will collapse if "the big one" hits. Mr. Winans concludes with the hope that legislators will seriously consider the 13 recommendations made by the chair of the House Committee on Insurance.

Current Issue of IRMI Update

Read the November 12 issue and sign up for this free e-mail newsletter.

Sign Up for This Free E-Mail NewsletterReaders are asked whether an enterprise risk management program is an important development for the risk management community. This issue's risk tip explains how to be prepared when "greening" existing buildings.

IRMI Construction Risk Conference

Mark your calendar for next year's Conference—Nov. 2-5, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

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