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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.
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.
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.
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.
Liability Insurance
Coverage Trigger: Getting It Right for the Right Reason
Steven Rawls | October 1, 2008
Steve Rawls shows why an injury-in-fact or actual injury trigger is the only trigger theory he believes is supported by the CGL policy.
Property Insurance
Hurricanes, Tropical Depressions, and Floods—Oh My!
William Austin | October 1, 2008
William Austin examines coverage needs and expectations that must be addressed pre-loss—not after the loss event through litigation.
Liability Insurance
Care, Custody, or Control Exclusion in the CGL
Craig Stanovich | October 1, 2008
Craig Stanovich describes how small changes in circumstances can result in totally different outcomes as to whether property is in the care, custody, or control of the insured.
Claims Practices
The Examination under Oath
Barry Zalma | October 1, 2008
Barry Zalma explains why this is an important tool to help insureds prove their loss or to allow an insurer to examine the proofs of loss to avoid potential fraud.
Valuation of Insurance Organizations
Credit Crisis and Insurance Companies
Jeff Balcombe | November 1, 2008
Personal Lines Claims
Personal Lines Property Loss Adjusting—Achieving Excellence
Elise Farnham | October 1, 2008
Enterprise Risk Management
Critical Role for the Chief Audit Executive: Aligning Risk Assessment
Mark Layton | October 1, 2008
Liability Insurance
Coverage Trigger: Getting It Right for the Right Reason
Steven Rawls | October 1, 2008
Property Insurance
Hurricanes, Tropical Depressions, and Floods—Oh My!
William Austin | October 1, 2008
Liability Insurance
Care, Custody, or Control Exclusion in the CGL
Craig Stanovich | October 1, 2008
