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Construction Safety
Construction Project Audits—Examples of Poor Practices
TJ Lyons | October 1, 2008
TJ Lyons shows through photos things to look for during a construction site tour.
Corporate Fraud Prevention
Seek the Symptoms of Fraud
Scott Langlinais | September 1, 2008
Scott Langlinais advises to forget the fraud triangle and fraud diamond. Focus on the root causes.
Current Trends and Issues
Insurer's Duty at the Outset of a Personal Lines Claim
Tim Ryles | September 1, 2008
Tim Ryles explains why insurers have an affirmative duty to advise first-party insureds of their rights and obligations under an insurance policy.
Surety
Killer Bond Forms and Contract Provisions—Part 3
Marilyn Klinger | August 16, 2008
Marilyn Klinger delves further into coverage limitations, when the obligee completes, waiving defenses, subdivision bonds, and more.
Personal Risk Management
Risk Management for Weddings
Jack Hungelmann | August 16, 2008
Weddings bring with them special risks not always covered by auto, home, or even umbrella policies. Jack Hunglemann explains.
Litigation Management
Litigation Best Practices—Lessons from Risk Manager of the Year
Michael Boutot | August 1, 2008
Michael Boutot interviews the Business Insurance Risk Manager of the Year who provides some yardsticks and takeaways to improve litigation management processes and outcomes.
Liability Insurance
The Future Is Now: When Eventual Indemnity Obligations become Present Defense Obligations
Steven Rawls | August 1, 2008
Steve Rawls relates a case erasing the distinction between an insurer's duty to indemnify and its duty to defend.
Property Catastrophe Risk and Capital Markets Risk Transfer
Donald Riggin | August 1, 2008
Don Riggin discusses the barriers to frequency losses being traded in the capital markets.
Claims Management
Technology and Claims: Blessing or Curse?
August 1, 2008
RMIS Review Editor David Tweedy takes a look at the advantages and disadvantages of technological progress in claims management.
Courts and Coverage
Event Data Recorders: Balancing the Benefits and Drawbacks
Brent Cooper | August 1, 2008
EDRs are in more modes of transportation than ever. Brent Cooper looks at the legislation and case law on the issue of privacy versus public safety.
Construction Safety
Construction Project Audits—Examples of Poor Practices
TJ Lyons | October 1, 2008
Current Trends and Issues
Insurer's Duty at the Outset of a Personal Lines Claim
Tim Ryles | September 1, 2008
Litigation Management
Litigation Best Practices—Lessons from Risk Manager of the Year
Michael Boutot | August 1, 2008
Liability Insurance
The Future Is Now: When Eventual Indemnity Obligations become Present Defense Obligations
Steven Rawls | August 1, 2008
Courts and Coverage
Event Data Recorders: Balancing the Benefits and Drawbacks
Brent Cooper | August 1, 2008
