Why Do Finite-Risk Deals Raise Eyebrows?The headlines have migrated in recent weeks from broker compensation to certain financial arrangements between insurers and reinsurersparticularly finite-risk reinsurance. ...

New Rules Can Avoid Problems With BrokersIt's an understatement to say that attention has been paid lately to the role of broker in obtaining the ...

J&S LiabilityIn the July 19 edition, I wrote a column about the financial woes of AIK Comp, a self-insured workers compensation group that had just ...

Loss Portfolio Transfers Can Bolster Buyers Self-insureds smooth out peaks and valleys of claim payments, clear out liabilitiesA member of a risk management e-group I ...

Joint & Several Liability Haunts Self-Insureds Risk managers warned to beware potential land mine in group risk sharingLoss control is a subject that from time ...

D&O Puts RMs On Hot SeatI just finished reading a thriller fashioned around what the book jacket describes as the "most exciting and dangerous game ...

9/11 Spotlights Business Interruption Threat What is the art and science of establishing the accurate limit of coverage?All (insurance) eyes are trained on a courtroom ...

How Can Buyers & Brokers Become A Match Made In Heaven?Depending on which way premiums are headed and how quickly and effectively claims are being ...