Features

Editor's Note: Taking care of trash

Greater competition, higher prices challenge A&E market

Focus key to surviving insurance industry challenges

Getting to 'yes' with underwriters on design liability accounts

Project owners run for their own cover

More small businesses think big

Small business owners' needs run large

Builder's risk: difficult but manageable

Coverage interpretation and claims litigation at odds

Contracts count when dealing with subcontractors

A look at restaurants and bars from the 'inside-out'

Minding Your Business: The secret of "The Secret"

Idea Exchange: Will new California construction codes lead to woes?

Closing Quote: Balancing risk and reward

It Figures: It Figures

Declarations: Declarations

Departments

Currents

• Lawyers, businesses groups tackle Oregon product liability laws
• Washington takes workers' comp rate holiday
• Calif. workers' comp written premiums down 17%
• Lawsuit claims insurer denied firefighter's benefits, caused death
• Ariz. high court to review product liability case
• Lake Tahoe fire estimated to incur more than $25 million in losses
• State Farm to cut Colo. auto rates 7.2%
• Oregon to stop printing producer licenses
• N.M. transportation operators to beef up coverage
• House bill renews federal terrorism reinsurance for 10 years
• P/C insurers invest $320 billion in public projects
• Supreme Court ruling limits investors' antitrust

New Markets

• My New Markets

Newsbriefs

• COURT SAYS EMPLOYER SHOULD NOT PAY FOR ALL PERMANENT DISABILITY
• NFIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• BEAZLEY TURNS FOCUS TO MEDIA IN COVERAGE FOR DESIGN PROS
• ONEBEACON BETS BIG ON SMALL

People & Places

• People and Places