Commentary

You may have seen the pictures from a baseball game played last week by the Atlanta Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The two teams went 19 innings and played for over six hours before the Braves won thanks to one of the more egregious umpiring calls in recent years.

Last month, a U.S. district court joined a growing number of federal courts in rejecting a Medicare Advantage plan’s assertion of a federal private right of action against casualty insurers under the Medicare Secondary Payer laws.

The Borders juggernaut is out of business, while a mom-and-pop bookstore is going strong. What can agents learn from two bookstores?

As the price of copper and unemployment rates rise, theft of copper and other metals looms large for insurers and risk managers.

There is a real, although sometimes quiet, revolution occurring in the way information and communication resources can be procured, delivered, and used.

Like cowboys, risk management professionals round up and subdue potentially dangerous, unpredictable, and hard to manage "animals." But instead of a lasso, they rely on effective internal controls.