March 10: The growing alternative risk-transfer market, from captives to risk retention groups to self-insured retentions, are examined.

April 7: The annual Risk Management Review features an exclusive report on the results of the annual “Risk Management Salary Survey” prepared by Logic Associates Inc., the industry's leading headhunter. Also included is the first of two special supplements on employee benefits.

May 26: The Mid-Year Insurance Renewal Report determines whether there's any letup in the hard market when it comes to price, terms or limits of coverage.

June 16: The thorny area of worker lawsuits is explored in depth in a special report on employment practices liability, including a directory of insurance carriers offering the coverage.

July 7: Features a special report on risk management and employee benefit services available to buyers, along with a supplement detailing the state of the U.S. reinsurance market.

Aug. 18: Workers' compensation–a big-ticket item for any corporate insurance buyer–is broken down in terms of coverage availability, price and attempts to cut costs through better loss control and legislative reforms.

Sept. 1: Looks at the global reinsurance industry, including predictions about the renewal market for 2003.

Oct. 13: Leading insurers, brokers and corporate buyers are queried about the state of the industry, along with our second annual supplement about employee benefit options and challenges.

Nov. 10: The “2004 Insurance Renewal Report” gives buyers a head's up on what to expect come Jan. 1 on prices, terms and conditions in the leading lines of property-casualty coverages, along with an in-depth look at the professional liability insurance market.

Dec. 1: NU closes out the year with an examination of how corporate governance controversies and the volatile stock market affected the directors and officers liability insurance market. Included is a directory of carriers offering the coverage.

Also included each month will be regular features about:

Risk management, alternative market and employee benefit trends by Risk Management Editor Caroline McDonald.

Risk retention groups from Karen Cutts, managing editor and publisher of the “Risk Retention Reporter.”

“Tools & Techniques of Risk Management and Insurance” from Diana Reitz, associate editor of the FC&S Bulletins and editor of the RF&S Bulletins, published by the National Underwriter Company.

The “Employment Practices Liability Hotline,” by Lisa Bee, director of EPL risk management for Lexington Insurance Company, and Gerald L. Maatman Jr., a leading employment lawyer.

Global risk management updates by NU's international editor in London, Lisa S. Howard.

For any questions, comments or suggestions, contact NU Publisher and Editor-In-Chief Sam Friedman ([email protected]), or Caroline McDonald ([email protected]).

Reproduced from National Underwriter Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management Edition, January 6, 2003. Copyright 2003 by The National Underwriter Company in the serial publication. All rights reserved.Copyright in this article as an independent work may be held by the author.