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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.

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.

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.

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.

Personal Lines Claims

Personal Lines Property Loss Adjusting—Achieving Excellence

Elise Farnham | October 1, 2008

The steps involved to achieve claims closure involve knowing the policy, the contract, textbook answers, and alternatives. Elise Farnham explains.

Mediation

Nix Your Mediator's Prospective Waiver of Liability

Jeff Kichaven | October 1, 2008

Jeff Kichaven says it's important to hold your mediators to the same standards as you hold your lawyers.

Enterprise Risk Management

Critical Role for the Chief Audit Executive: Aligning Risk Assessment

Mark Layton | October 1, 2008

Mark Layton explains why today a frank assessment of the true risks a company faces is crucial.

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