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• Cost-Control Case Study: Miami-Dade Public Schools

  By Bonnie Cavanaugh  |  May 21, 2012

  Creating best practices in Workers’ Comp for many insurers now means going beyond the basics, digging deep into their claims history, and “making manufacturing better at manufacturing Workers’ Comp.”

• KRE Insurance Adapts to Increasingly Global World, Sophisticated Criminals

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 3, 2012

  Kidnap, Ransom and Extortion insurance coverage is much more than the name implies. The coverage has become broad—one shaped by competition and a growing need as we become a more globalized, high-tech society within many areas of political or economic strife.

• To Develop New Coverage Options, Specialty Players ‘See Around Corners and Imagine’

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 26, 2012

  Insurance providers need to have no fear of failure when developing new products to adjust to and cover emerging risks associated with the fast-paced evolution and trends among worldwide businesses.

• As Transportation & Construction Rebound, Inland Marine Revs Up

  By Bonnie Cavanaugh  |  April 26, 2012

  As the economy begins to turn, competition in Transportation and Construction coverage are heating up the Inland Marine Specialty Insurance segment.

• From Acorns to Zucchini

  By Melissa Hillebrand, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 25, 2012

  The Federal Crop Insurance Program began nearly 75 years ago. Now a public/private partnership, agents write more than 1 million crop insurance policies. As Congress looks at a 2012 farm bill, learn what agents need to know about this “growing” industry.

• ‘Fast’ is Only a Dream

  By Ken Brownlee, CPCU  |  April 25, 2012

  Faster anything, from trains to claims services in a disaster, represents a long-term goal. Except for short runs or small claims, it is a dream of what might be.

• Fast Track to Loss Control: Liberty Mutual’s ‘Skid Pan’ Gives Clients a Visceral Lesson in the Value of Anti-Lock Brakes

  By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 20, 2012

  While it may lack the twists and turns of the test tracks used by Porsche and Ferrari, Liberty Mutual’s “skid pan” at its Research Institute for Safety still sees a lot of stomach-churning driving—and the three-acre automotive test area employs a lot of serious science to help make roads safer...

• RIMS Connects with Visitors Using Mobile App

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 5, 2012

  Busy RIMS 2012 attendees can “go mobile” for the event with an app for Apple, Android and BlackBerry products that provides access to all the convention’s resources.

• Reported Cargo Theft Incidents Up 17% in 2011

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 30, 2012

  A rise is cargo theft reporting in 2011 is the result of more data-sharing between law enforcement and the transportation and insurance industries, says CargoNet.

• Verisk Exec Describes New Crime Analytics Division

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 30, 2012

  Verisk Analytics’ new Verisk Crime Analytics division will help the company assist both law enforcement and crime victims in the private industry, a Verisk executive says.