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Business Insurance Solution Arcs

Winner of the 2012 Silver Eddie award for best online tools, our Solution Arcs present in-depth information about timely business challenges, taking readers through a three-stage process from identifying and analyzing a problem to implementing solutions. Solution Arcs include original Business Insurance content as well as Editor's Picks highlighting relevant outside views and resources. We will continue to add content to these features as new dimensions and solutions emerge.

RISK MANAGEMENT

How to contend with emerging risks as the economy continues to recover

Failing to keep pace with developing risk management trends can put a company at a competitive disadvantage and threaten its bottom line
 

How to be sure your company stays current with its RMIS technology

More demands from insurers and regulators for better risk data require risk managers to get more out of their risk management information systems.
 

How to achieve the most benefits from a captive insurer

Picking the wrong domicile or failing to keep up with regulatory changes can limit the success of captive insurance programs.
 

Surge in public violence demands sharper focus on risk management and security

Recent violent acts in public places, from college campuses to movie theaters, increase liabilities and safety concerns for many businesses and institutions.
 

Attaining risk management nirvana: Depends on coordinated disaster planning between public and private sectors

Public entities and municipalities often are pushed to the brink in a catastrophe, exposing gaps in risk management and preparation for disasters.

SPECIALTY RISKS

How employers can glean benefits from social media usage and avoid the related risks

For risk managers, brokers and insurers, social media growth brings new technology threats, such as hacking and proprietary data breaches.
 

Executive risks: New landmark federal regulation and creative plaintiffs' lawyers bring new corporate threats

Directors and officers of publicly owned firms face significant increases in liability exposures in their jobs and when serving on corporate boards.
 

Helping employers contend with the heightened threat of whistle-blowers

New state and federal laws give financial incentives to whistle-blowers to come forward, reinforcing the need for employers to develop a strategy to avoid these allegations.
 

WORKERS COMP

How employers can manage difficult claims-adjusting challenges, while keeping workers compensation costs in check

Obtaining desirable results from work comp claims adjusters requires employers' attention to third-party administrator practices.
 

How employers can avoid potential pitfalls dealing with Medicare liens and set-asides

For employers and insurers, Medicare Secondary Payer compliance rules are complicated, often causing delays and additional expenses that add to workers compensation claims costs.
 

MID-MARKET EXECUTIVE

How companies can protect their employees overseas and minimize international business travel risks

Employers face exposures to health and safety risks when their employees go abroad, especially to emerging nations, either as part of a corporate global expansion or for business travel.
 

How companies can prevent employees from stealing their intellectual property

Employee theft is a pervasive problem among U.S. businesses, eroding income and leading sometimes to a company's demise.
 

BROKERS & INSURERS

How brokerages can develop successful growth strategies

Insurance brokers and agencies face stark choice: Grow or see their competitive edge slowly vanish.

Catastrophe underwriting: Insurers' custom risk models key to improvements

Risk modeling changes and detailed data insurers need to manage catastrophe exposures necessitate they develop comprehensive models to accurately reflect their own risks.

What insurers need to know to take advantage of big data in risk analysis and modeling

Laden with aging technology infrastructure, insurers struggle to capitalize on a new era of advancement in data gathering and analysis vital to their future competitiveness.

BENEFITS MANAGEMENT

How companies can ensure they get maximum employee participation in defined contribution plans

With the shift from defined benefit plans, 401(k) and other defined contribution plans have become employees' only retirement program, leaving those who don't participate with inadequate retirement savings.
 

Pension landscape shifts, as employers revamp retirement benefits

Employers are hard-pressed to offer defined benefit pension plans, resulting in a departure from traditional retirement plans.
 

Evolving health care marketplace: Examining private health insurance exchanges and how employers can utilize them

Employers' problems offering medical plans led to private health insurance exchanges, but it's unclear if exchanges will ease the pain.
 

What companies need to know as they assess medical coverage options

Employers face numerous financial and compliance challenges as key health care reform deadlines loom.
 

What companies need to know about reducing their pension plan risks

Employers face the challenge of minimizing pension plan risks triggered by historically low interest rates, volatility in the equities markets and increasing administrative costs.