Features

Editor's Note: A long way to go

The Commissioners

Understanding real estate-related risks

Taking care of business

Surplus lines designation curriculum updated; good fit for retailers as well

Know thyself; insure thyself

Putting the brakes on paratransit operator losses

Understanding the surety process

Competition hits Surplus Lines Market

XL E&S enters the specialty market

Departments

Currents

• An assault on compensation agreements
• A year later: La. updates Hurricane Katrina claims figures
• It Figures
• Number of Okla. teen smokers drops
• Transportation activities accounted for most on-job fatalities in 2005
• ARK. UPDATES MILEAGE AND COMPENSATION RATES
• No 'pixie dust' for reform, Texas work comp chief says
• Both employers and employees benefit from investment in learning
• Texas A&M finds disaster preparedness lacking
• Michigan Supreme Court shows judicial restraint with asbestos decision
• Republic to merge with Delek Capital
• Study hits states without helmet laws
• U.S. traffic deaths on the rise
• Guy Carpenter report examines impact and risks of nanotechnology
• Premiums remain flat in second quarter except in hurricane-exposed regions, risk managers report
• First post-Katrina court decision a victory for insurers
• Cultivating a management mentality
• Study urges better efforts to prevent teen worker injuries
• Deal makers and deal breakers
• New study finds coastal population drain following hurricanes

Legal Beat

• Hurricanes Katrina and Rita spawn legislation, bulletins in Miss. and La.

New Markets

• New Markets

Newsbriefs

• TEXAS COMP NETWORKS EXPANDED, APPROVED
• BLACK BOXES IN AUTOS MUST BE DISCLOSED
• REINSURERS 'HUMBLED, BUT MOST NOT BROKEN'

People & Places

• People and Places