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Emerging Issues for the Workplace – Insurance Issues
In this Workers' Comp. edition of Insurance Issues, we share our research on emerging issues and their unique impact on employer and their Workers' Compensation carriers. Imported drywall, Bisphenol-A and nanotechnology are highlighted. These emerging issues create hazards for many areas of construction and manufacturing. |
March 2010
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Medical Professional Liability and Emerging Issues – MPL News
This publication highlights emerging issues impacting Medical Professional Liability. This issue includes discussion on: systemic risk and patient safety, including radiation overdoses; jurisdictional issues in some states; hospital liability; and heathcare spending. |
March 2010 |
Fixed Income Portfolio Duration: In What Context Does It Matter? – General ReView
We have to ask, what is the impact of insurers’ liabilities in the construction of their (cash market) fixed income portfolios? Or, is duration, like credit quality, only a derivative consequence of other investment objectives? |
February 2010
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Construction Defects - How Are Policy Forms Holding Up? – Commercial Umbrella FYI
In this edition of Commercial Umbrella FYI, we focus on policy wordings developed to preclude multi-year stacking of limits in construction defect (CD) claims and how they are faring in court decisions. Gen Re Claim Executive Mike Mugglebee reviews the ISO and company forms in the market, and the court decisions determining how they applied to various CD claims. |
February 2010 |
Gen Re LifeHealth Announces New Management Appointments
Press Release |
February 2010 |
JHA’s Dynamics Seminar Features Prominent Health Insurance Experts
Press Release |
February 2010 |
Emerging Issues – Current and Past – Hazardous Times
The Emerging Issues discipline has become increasingly important to insurers in just about every line of business. In this edition of Hazardous Times, we discuss best practices for emerging issues and review the learnings from a variety of significant exposures during the past two decades. Many of these issues and best practices are still relevant to what companies are writing today. |
February 2010 |
"V" is for Verisimilitude, Not Veracity – Reflections
House price declines have reversed, for the time being. But they represent government intervention, not health. The government’s struggle to offset the contractionary forces of deleveraging is titanic in its proportions but not the stuff of robust recoveries of the past. |
February 2010 |
Focused Value Equity Management, 4th Quarter 2009 – Equity Focus
Focused Value Equity Management is a controlled risk approach to equity value investing. This discipline seeks to outperform the S&P 500 Stock Index (and respective peer groups) with less volatility over full market cycles, through a controlled risk process. Portfolios are constructed with comparable relative P/E, P/BV, and dividend yield relative to the S&P 500 Stock Index. |
February 2010 |
Policy Claims for Dog Bites – E-News
This E-News GL/Umbrella highlights recent dog bite cases that address exposure and coverage issues and provides takeaways about this type of claim for Homeowners as well as Personal Umbrella insurers. |
January 2010 |
Drywall Update: New Defendants Add to Insurance Exposures – E-News
This E-News GL/Umbrella highlights the one emerging feature of the "Chinese Drywall" problem – the widening scope of defendants caught in the litigation. Defendants have included drywall installers, general contractors, and drywall manufacturers and suppliers. However, lawsuits continue to name entities that are not necessarily considered drywall litigation targets and we highlight some of them. |
January 2010 |
Medicare Recipients Litigation, E-News Multiline – E-News
This E-News Multiline discusses a Federal government lawsuit grabbing the attention of Liability and Workers' Compensation insurers who make bodily injury payment to Medicare recipients. We summarize the important litigation and provide links to additional information on the topic. |
January 2010 |
Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Liability – Updated Law Survey for Fourth Quarter 2009 – E-News
The updated Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Liability^– Updated Law Survey for Fourth Quarter 2009 is now available. This electronic survey contains the latest laws, regulations and cases that affect key UM/UIM topics. |
January 2010 |
Gen Re LifeHealth Opens Branch Office in Tokyo
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January 2010 |
GR–NEAM Expands its Global Insurance Asset Management Presence
Press Release |
January 2010 |
Amending ALM: An Enterprise Solution for Insurer Risk Management – General ReView
The underlying requirement of Enterprise capital return and risk management is a culture of governance, accountability and risk awareness. The tools we use are intended to support these prerequisites, not replace them. We view models as tools whether they are deterministic, Mean/Variance or stochastic, and therefore, intellectual curiosity and caution must be exercised. |
January 2010
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History – Reflections
Placing today’s financial market valuations in historical perspective makes clear that there are few or no bargains around. Interest rates are unsustainably low, and equities have recovered to fair value. From such levels it appears that unfortunately the best returns over the typical horizons of one to five years are likely to come from manic market behavior rather than patience. |
January 2010 |
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