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Marketing By accident: Ben McConnell of the Church of the Customer blog features 10 Questions with David Vinjamuri author of the new book "Accidental Branding," which he looks at inexperienced entrepreneurs who nonetheless built well-known brands (Clif Bars, Columbia Sportswear). A couple of Vinjamuri's better comments from...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Branding, Michael Fitzgerald, Accidental Branding, accident, brand, marketing; Blog posts 2008-04-16
How Do Third-Party, Bad Faith Bodily Injury Claims Affect Automobile Insurance Costs and Compensation: In its 1979 decision in Royal Globe Insurance Company v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court gave an accident victim the right to bring a claim for punitive damages against another person's liability insurer if the victim felt that the insurer had engaged in unfair claims settlement practices. Although the...; Tags: Insurance, RAND Corp., California Supreme Court, compensation, insurance company, accident; White papers
Auto Insurance Rate Increases Fall by More Than Half: Fewer accidents, Crackdowns on Fraud and Abuse Among Reasons - Some Drivers are Seeing Rates Drop, Reports Insurance Information Institute: This article states that the cost of auto insurance is expected to rise by 3.5 percent in 2004, the smallest increase in four years. The declining number of auto accidents due to better drivers and safer cars and crackdowns on fraud and abuse are behind the trend, though rising costs...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Litigation, Insurance Information Institute, crackdown, accident, fraud, insurance; White papers
Transportation Department Discovers Key to Traffic Control: When a roadway incident occurs, the DOT dispatches highway maintenance personnel who work with law enforcement and other public safety officials to control traffic, clean up the accident site, remove debris, clean up a hazardous spill, etc. However, the process of dispatching personnel has always been cumbersome and time consuming....; Tags: Policies and procedures, Deloitte & Touche, accident, transportation; Case studies
Dyes - Fortunate accidents: One of the premier scientists of all time, Louis Pasteur, made an important statement for students and educators: "In the field of observations, chance favors only the prepared mind." Many well trained scientists have made discoveries while seeking other results or methods that their background learning and experience called to...; Tags: Policies and procedures, scientist, accident; White papers

No-Fault Auto Insurance Unrelated to accident Rates: A new study refutes a common criticism of no-fault auto insurance--that it may increase the accident rate by reducing drivers' incentives to drive carefully. An analysis of accident trends in the United States between 1967 and 1989 found no statistically significant relationship between states' adoption of a no-fault system and...; Tags: Policies and procedures, RAND Corp., accident, insurance, incentive, analysis; White papers
How Would a "Choice" Auto Insurance Plan Affect Insurance Costs and Compensation of accident Victims: No-fault auto insurance, born in the 1960s, limits claimants' ability to seek compensation through the courts, most states has found it an unappealing alternative. Choice auto insurance, initially proposed in 1986, addresses this concern by allowing drivers to choose between a no-fault plan and a somewhat modified version of their...; Tags: Financial Planning, RAND Corp., insurance, compensation, accident; White papers
Automating Your Sales Processes and CRM Strategies: There's a lot of talk about using technology to automate a company's sales force and to help the business strategy for managing customer relationships, or what is commonly known as Customer Relationship Management, or CRM. No doubt, technology can help any business become more efficient and effective. Purchasing technology alone...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Policies and procedures, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), accident, CRM, sales, business strategy, sales force; White papers
Comparing Auto Insurance Quotes Online: Auto insurance refers to the insurance which is used for insuring the automobiles against any kind of uncertain accidents that may cause damages to the vehicle. The main purpose that the insurance serves is to give protection against the losses incurred due to accidents. Auto insurance is a type of...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Financial Planning, accident, insurance; White papers
What to Do if Your Product Catches on Fire: Passengers evacuated from a China Airlines plane that caught fire at an Okinawa airport complained the flight crew provided poor evacuation instructions. Perhaps the flight crew should take a lesson in competency from the maintenance staffers who meticulously whited-out the company's name and logo on the burnt aircraft's remains. That's right. The...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Branding, Lori Deschene, China Airlines, accident, flight crew, Japanese Media; Blog posts 2007-08-23
Liability for accidents: This paper presents a survey of legal liability for accidents addressing three general aspects of accident liability. The first is the effect of liability on incentives, both whether to engage in activities and how much care to exercise to reduce risk when so doing. The second general aspect concerns risk-bearing...; Tags: Policies and procedures, National Bureau of Economic Research, accident, incentive, insurance, survey; White papers 2005-11-01
Workplace Transport Safety: An Overview: Every year, a significant number of people are killed by accidents involving vehicles in the workplace, and many more people are injured. A lot of damage is also done to property and profit. Better planning, training and awareness, and the appropriate use of vehicles, can avoid most of these accidents....; Tags: Workplace, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-11-01
Classifying Crew Performance Failures in Commercial Aviation accidents: Can We Get the Numbers Right?: The purpose of accident investigation is to identify and organize a description of the process through which interacting elements and conditions result in an unfortunate event. Unfortunately, if accident investigators lack a cohesive definition of human factors issues, the investigation into human performance may be unsystematic, incomplete, or leave significant...; Tags: Policies and procedures, University of Illinois, accident, performance, theory, analysis; White papers 2005-09-20
eucon Information Systems Automates to Reduce Costs, Improve Customer Service: eucon was looking for ways to increase its business for processing automobile repair claims. Industry studies show that compensation paid for automobile accident claims is too high about 70 percent of the time. The company needed a solution that would provide flexible input methods for claims and could support a...; Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., business consulting services, consulting service, information system, compensation, industry; Case studies 2005-07-28
Preventing accidents to Children on Farms: Working in agriculture has long been recognised as a hazardous occupation, with one of the highest fatal injury rates to workers of any industry. It is the only industry that has to accept the constant presence of children around the worksite, since farms are homes as well as workplaces. That...; Tags: Children, Injury, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Management, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-06-01
Human Error and General Aviation accidents: A Comprehensive, Fine-Grained Analysis Using HFACS: The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is a theoretically based tool for investigating and analyzing human error associated with accidents and incidents. Previous research performed at both at the University of Illinois and the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) have been highly successful and have shown that HFACS...; Tags: University Of Illinois, Accident, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources; White papers 2005-05-01
Flight Test Comparison Between Enhanced Vision (FLIR) and Synthetic Vision Systems: Limited visibility and reduced situational awareness have been cited as predominant causal factors for both Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) and runway incursion accidents. NASA's Synthetic Vision Systems (SVS) project is developing practical application technologies with the goal of eliminating low visibility conditions as a causal factor to civil aircraft...; Tags: NASA, accident, aircraft, vision, benefit; White papers 2005-04-08
Nuclear Criticality accidents in the Workplace: This paper provides information on nuclear criticality accidents that have occurred since the beginnings of the nuclear industry with primary focus on those that have occurred in the workplace. A nuclear criticality accident is the occurrence of a self-sustaining neutron chain reaction that is either unplanned or behaves unexpectedly. Only...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Recruitment & Selection, criticality, accident, workplace, industry; White papers 2005-04-01
Incident and accident Investigation Techniques to Inform Model-Based Design of Safety-Critical Interactive Systems: The quality of the design of an interactive safety-critical system can be enhanced by embedding data and knowledge from past experiences. Traditionally, this involves applying scenarios, usability analysis, or the use of metrics for risk analysis. This paper presents an approach that uses the information from incident investigations to inform...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Strategy, University of Glasgow, accident, risk analysis, technique, knowledge; White papers 2005-02-25
Don't Risk It: Use Correct Electrical Measurement Tools and Procedures to Minimize Risk and Liability: Between five and ten times on any given day, arc flash explosions sufficient to send a burn victim to a special burn center take place in the U.S. These incidents and other less serious electrical accidents result in injury -- sometimes death -- lost work time, medical costs and insurance...; Tags: Policies and procedures, Fluke Corp., accident, insurance, tool, training; White papers 2004-11-11