What's New—September 2008

Five reference manual updates and new issues of The Risk Report and Captive Insurance Company Reports (CICR) have been added to the IRMI infobases. We have also updated the home page and job function dashboards to facilitate navigation in the site.

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Newsletters & Journals

The September issue of The Risk Report, the annual insurance market report, provides readers with line-by-line commentary on the commercial general, auto/trucking, environmental, umbrella, D&O, employment practices, and professional liability, as well as the property, workers compensation, and surety markets.

The September issue of Captive Insurance Company Reports features three articles dealing with identifying when a captive is going stale and then reevaluating a captive's performance through strategic reviews performed by outside consultants.

Reference Manuals

Commercial Auto Insurance is devoted to a review and updating of state motor vehicle statutes—including statutory provisions with respect to motor vehicle registration, financial responsibility, compulsory liability, uninsured and underinsured motorists, and no-fault provisions. This supplement includes updated pages for Montana through Wyoming. Also included in the supplement are updated UM/UIM pages for Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Commercial Property Insurance continues the expansion of the ISO annotated forms section of the manual. It adds relevant caselaw and related commentary on the covered causes of loss provision and the exclusions in the special causes of loss form (CP 10 30).

Construction Risk Management updates the discussions of crime insurance, A201 risk allocation provisions, and standard form construction contract indemnity provisions. The state construction anti-indemnity chart is also updated, as is the chart showing states' positions on coverage for construction defects in the CGL policy. The Construction Risk Management Newsletter provides updates on construction and insurance industry developments.

D&O MAPS has been expanded to include the following policies and analyses.

• Allied World Assurance Primary D&O policy and analysis
• Allied World Assurance Side A Lead DIC policy and analysis
• Allied World Assurance Side A Excess Following Form policy and analysis

Personal Risk Management and Insurance updates the side-by-side comparisons of the ISO PAP (January 2005 version) to various insurer forms (see the Executive Briefing for more information). The supplement also updates the section on personal auto loss exposures, hazards, and loss control. In addition, the ISO personal auto endorsement lists and the state auto laws chart are both updated, and one section of the annotated homeowners liability discussion is expanded. Lastly, this supplement updates several UM/UIM and no-fault coverage state pages.

Other Updates

The October 1, 2008 edition of the National Flood Insurance Program's Flood Insurance Manual is now available to subscribers to Commercial Property Insurance or Personal Risk Management and Insurance.

Forms

This month 110 forms and endorsements have been added to the Forms manuals. These include ISO state-specific commercial auto forms, state-specific commercial liability umbrella forms, state-specific commercial excess forms, state-specific businessowners forms, and state-specific interline forms. Also included are AAIS countrywide general liability forms and countrywide businessowners forms. The Forms manuals now include more than 21,110 sample policy forms.