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Market Practices

A Brief Look at Insuring Small Municipalities

2013-09-01 | Peter Polstein

Smaller risks often require special considerations. Peter Polstein takes a look at insuring these risks.

Risk Management: A Systemic Approach

Reversing Risk Roles

2013-07-20 | Vernon Leslie Grose

Instead of being an adversary to line managers, Dr. Vernon Grose suggests that risk managers assume a radically different role as a resource.

Current Trends and Issues

Risk Purchasing Groups: A Fictitious Grouping for Illusory E&O Coverage?—Part 1

2013-03-08 | Tim Ryles

Too much state regulation may stifle innovation for errors and omissions (E&O) policies, warns Dr. Tim Ryles, but too much flexibility may foster deception.

Current Trends and Issues

New Issues in the Marketing of Producer Errors and Omissions Insurance—Part 2

2013-03-01 | Tim Ryles

Tim Ryles provides examples of recent misleading sales and marketing practices.

Risk Management: A Systemic Approach

Organizing the Disorganized

2013-03-01 | Vernon Leslie Grose

Dr. Vernon Grose looks at why management is so often excluded from the boardroom.

Current Trends and Issues

Resources for Identifying Standards of Conduct for Insurance Producers

2012-10-01 | Tim Ryles

Tim Ryles looks at occupational standards of entry and retention, and relevant ethical codes.

Current Trends and Issues

So You Think You Are a Professional: the Judicial Model of an Insurance Producer's Professional Status

2012-05-01 | Tim Ryles

The judicially imposed standard of care, writes Tim Ryles, cheapens the role of insurance providers.

Catastrophe Risk Management

Catastrophic Chemical Industry Losses—Structuring Coverage and Maximizing Recovery

2012-01-01 | Christopher M Brophy

Maximizing insurance coverage after a catastrophic loss is especially complex for chemical producers. Chris Brophy elaborates.

Catastrophe Risk Management

Building the Right Builders Risk Policy

2011-10-01 | Christopher M Brophy

Construction catastrophes can doom a business. Christopher Brophy explains how builders risk insurance, properly designed, can save the firm.

Insurance Archaeology

Proving Renewal Policy Language of Missing Insurance Policies

2011-09-24 | Douglas Talley

Using standard industry forms and secondary evidence, Doug Talley explains that missing insurance policies can be reconstructed.