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Recent risk management Expert Commentary

Leadership: I Know It When I See It—In the new Leadership at All Levels column, Corbette Doyle looks at what constitutes leadership and leaders.

Trigger Theories and the CGL—Craig Stanovich explains that trigger theories can only affect when the bodily injury or property damage is determined to have occurred.

Reinsurers Now Have Credit-Risk Worries—Larry Schiffer explores the trend to require contractual provisions to protect against reinsureds' credit problems.

Construction Blasting Risk Management—There are many forms of risk associated with blasting work. Peter Furst explains that despite these risks, blasting can be performed without incident.

Eliminating Equipment Failures by Eliminating Failing Equipment—TJ Lyons shows the importance of scrutinizing every piece of equipment intended for a construction project.

Insurance Market Woes Continue—Pete Polstein bemoans the industry’s lack of investment capital, failure of regulatory oversight, and potential security-related E&O suits.

Court Requires Comparables "Similarly Situated in All Respects"—Paul Siegel relates a recent 11th Circuit employment discrimination case.

IRMI Insights

Recent articles on risk management and insurance

Florida Flirting with Hurricane Insurance Disaster (August 2008)—Brent Winans, a Florida insurance agent and consultant, discusses Florida's use of a hurricane catastrophe fund to cover the risk of coastal storm losses, the inherent risks to taxpayers, and some of the facts that lawmakers might consider when dealing with the situation. Like other risk professionals, he expresses concern that the current system will collapse if "the big one" hits. Mr. Winans concludes with the hope that legislators will seriously consider the 13 recommendations made by the chair of the House Committee on Insurance.

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