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Design and Professional Liability

Owners Protective Professional Indemnity Insurance

Jeff Slivka | March 1, 2008

Jeff Slivka and Tony Polini discuss the OPPI policy as a more desirable option for owners than the alternatives currently available to them.

Valuation of Insurance Organizations

Valuation Insights: Life and Health Insurers

Jeff Balcombe | March 1, 2008

Jeff Balcombe provides insight into the valuation of life and health (L&H) insurers and the market's current pricing of these businesses.

Property Insurance

New York Awards Consequential Damages for Insurer's Bad Faith

Jay Levin | March 1, 2008

Jay Levin relates a property case forcing insurers to fulfill their promise not only to pay for covered losses, but to do so in a timely fashion.

Construction Safety

Construction Risk Management: Avoiding the Incompetent Worker

TJ Lyons | March 1, 2008

Letting an incompetent person oversee work on your construction project is a recipe for disaster. T.J. Lyons explains.

Construction Safety

Construction Risk Management: Recognizing Incompetent Workers

TJ Lyons | March 1, 2008

Keeping an incompetent person on your construction project is a major mistake. T.J. Lyons explains ways to avoid it.

Liability Insurance

I Did Not Expect That! The CGL Exclusion for Expected or Intended Injury

Craig Stanovich | March 1, 2008

Craig Stanovich highlights what is and what is not excluded by the commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy's Exclusion a.

Litigation Management

The Three Pillars of Litigation Management

Michael Boutot | February 1, 2008

Michael Boutot explains why lawyers can and should be managed, just like any other outside service vendor.

Liability Insurance

The Burden to Allocate: Mine, Yours, or Ours?

Steven Rawls | February 1, 2008

Steve Rawls and Rebecca Appelbaum examine the caselaw surrounding the allocation issue.

Ethics

Ethics and the Insurance Agent: "C'mon, Little Sister!"

George Head | February 1, 2008

February is Ethics Awareness Month. Dr. George Head poses an ethical dilemma for readers to ponder.

Personal Risk Management

Time to Standardize Personal Umbrella Insurance Policies

Jack Hungelmann | February 1, 2008

Jack Hungelmann points out the problems of not having standardized umbrella policies.