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by Rodd Zolkos
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So much to do, so little time

1:51 pm, Dec. 1

With this post I'll be signing off on the Claims & Occurrences blog here at BusinessInsurance.com.It's been a fun experiment for the past several months, but with all that's changing both in risk management and insurance—and in the way news organizations like Business Insurance are able to ...MORE

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Simpler is better for Missouri captives

Missouri insurance officials credit a state law enacted earlier this year simplifying the formation of captives in the state for interest in the local captive industry and the formation of a new captive there by Ralcorp Holdings Inc.St. Louis-based Ralcorp is a producer of private-label foods and ...MORE

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Some businesses too big for too big to fail

I'm at the 19th Annual World Captive Forum in Bonita Springs, Fla., where Zurich Global Corporate CEO Mario Vitale offered some interesting thoughts in his keynote presentation this morning.Among the perspectives Mr. Vitale presented was the notion that many global businesses are too large to be ...MORE

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Many domiciles, one conference

Interesting to see the joint approach some captive domiciles in the western United States are taking to promoting their efforts.The Arizona Captive Insurance Assn. and the Utah Captive Insurance Assn. announced recently that they'll co-sponsor a Western Region Captive Insurance Conference next year ...MORE

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That's why we buy insurance

4:33 pm, Nov. 2
  • Health Care Benefits

    • I posted an item a few weeks back talking about the growing pet health insurance market and explaining our reasoning for purchasing a pet health plan for our dog, Smoke, when we brought him into our pack about a year ago.A bit of an update: In that post, I suggested that we hoped not to have to tap ...MORE

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    Drawing the alternative and traditional together

    There have been suggestions from time to time that the alternative risk transfer market and the traditional insurance market are drawing ever closer together. I think there's evidence of that trend here in Orlando at the annual meeting of the Property Casualty Insurers Assn. of America, where ...MORE

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    On cycles and ERM

    5:16 pm, Oct. 26
  • P/C Insurers

    • This will be little surprise to parties to reinsurance discussions taking place at this year's PCI meeting, but, the word from the annual reinsurance gathering in Baden-Baden, Germany is there's no hard market in sight.That makes a notion put forth in a Monday conversation with Grace Osborne at the ...MORE

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    PCI focuses on risk

    6:25 pm, Oct. 25
  • P/C Insurers

    • I'm in Orlando for this year's annual meeting of the Property Casualty Insurers Assn. of America. This year's meeting obviously takes place against the backdrop of a year unlike any many of us have experienced.Given the events of the past year, it's appropriate that this year's PCI conference will ...MORE

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    Celebrating the Best Places

    I was in New York yesterday for a luncheon celebrating the honorees in this year's first Business Insurance Best Places to Work in Insurance program. It was a great event, drawing representatives from a good many of the 33 companies recognized this year. Working on this first Best Places to Work ...MORE

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    Insurance market going to the dogs (and cats)

    Warren Buffett is said to invest only in businesses he understands, which makes me certain he must be a pet owner.According to a story this week from TheStreet.com, Berkshire Hathaway company Central States Indemnity of Omaha announced last week that it was going to partner with Nestle to market ...MORE

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