Enterprise risk management experts, and surely even many neophytes, are fairly adept at identifying exposures and events that can impede their organizations.

State legislators and regulators are sparring with large insurance companies over whether Congress should create an office within the Treasury Department to monitor insurance activities.

Not only have most risk management departments been spared layoffs, but the overwhelming majority of risk managers are happy in their jobs, an NU/Logic survey found. For a sneak peak, see Editor Sam Friedman's blog at www.NUSamSoapBox.com.

A House bill that has drawn attention and some support from insurance groups to restrict the number of prescriptions issued for the pain killer OxyContin appears likely to face a difficult challenge to secure passage, Congress watchers said.