Whether you are novice catastrophe adjuster awaiting the first storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season or a veteran liability litigation examiner, there are certain traits the best in claims will always exemplify. This list should hold no surprises for the dedicated manager who has spent countless hours mentoring the...

Along the continuum of ethical duties to customers, insurance professionals fall somewhere between the extremes of complete stranger and conservator. It is both a sliding scale and a slippery slope, especially when courts struggle with the decision whether to apply the broker's duty as a fiduciary one.

The honorable practice of risk management has been at the center of many events in history. Almost everyone can discuss the major catastrophes of our agethe hurricanes, tsunamis, explosions, wrecks, contaminations, product failures, governance failures and ethical lapseswith some degree of awareness and understanding of risk and risk management.

The question isn't how much a college football player's future professional career is worth, it's how much would be needed to make up for falling short of that goal.