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Claims Practices
Insurance Fraud
Barry Zalma | January 1, 2009
Barry Zalma explains that insurance fraud can only be defeated by a thorough investigation by claimspersons, investigators, and insurance coverage counsel.
Courts and Coverage
Underinsured Motorist Insurance: Prerequisites before Coverage Applied
Brent Cooper | January 1, 2009
Brent Cooper relates a Texas decision showing a further entrenchment in the plain-and-ordinary meaning test.
Construction Safety
Construction Blasting Risk Management
Peter Furst | December 1, 2008
There are many forms of risk associated with blasting work. Peter Furst explains that despite these risks, blasting can be performed without incident.
Employment Practices
Eleventh Circuit Court Requires Comparables "Similarly Situated in All Respects"
Paul Siegel | December 1, 2008
Paul Siegel relates a case where, to prove employment discrimination, plaintiffs must show the comparator's misconduct be nearly identical to their own.
Liability Insurance
Trigger Theories and the CGL
Craig Stanovich | December 1, 2008
Craig Stanovich explains that trigger theories can only affect when the bodily injury or property damage is determined to have occurred.
Reinsurance
Turnabout Is Fair Play—Reinsurers Now Have Credit-Risk Worries
Larry Schiffer | December 1, 2008
Larry Schiffer explores the developing trend by reinsurers to require contractual provisions that protect them against the credit risk associated with their reinsureds.
Enterprise Risk Management
Where Was ERM?
Chris Duncan | November 1, 2008
Chris Duncan looks at what can we learn from the current financial debacle to make ERM more effective in the future.
Claims Management
Is Self-Administration Ever the Right Answer?
November 1, 2008
Glenn Brown explores the decision-making process along with the risks, possible rewards, and challenges of administering your own claims.
Valuation of Insurance Organizations
Credit Crisis and Insurance Companies
Jeff Balcombe | November 1, 2008
Jeff Balcombe discusses the impact of the recent economic turmoil on the valuation of companies operating in the insurance industry.
Construction Safety
Construction Blasting Fundamentals
Peter Furst | November 1, 2008
Peter Furst provides the basics on commercial explosives, blast physics, rock properties, construction blast design and techniques.
Courts and Coverage
Underinsured Motorist Insurance: Prerequisites before Coverage Applied
Brent Cooper | January 1, 2009
Employment Practices
Eleventh Circuit Court Requires Comparables "Similarly Situated in All Respects"
Paul Siegel | December 1, 2008
Reinsurance
Turnabout Is Fair Play—Reinsurers Now Have Credit-Risk Worries
Larry Schiffer | December 1, 2008
Valuation of Insurance Organizations
Credit Crisis and Insurance Companies
Jeff Balcombe | November 1, 2008
