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• Munich Re America Hosts 2008 Casualty Claims Seminar at the University of Wisconsin to Address Projected Shortage of Experienced Claims Adjusters

  - 2008-08-26

  PRINCETON, N.J. -- Munich Reinsurance America MRAm hosted a two-day seminar last week aimed at addressing a projected critical shortage of experienced claims adjusters. "The loss of experienced adjusters due to retirements and the difficulty in attracting and retaining new claims talent continues to be one of our industry's greatest...

  Tags: FINANCE, Insurance, Munich, reinsurance, University of Wisconsin

• First meeting.(News)(discussing environment)(Brief article)

  - 2006-10-16

  Byline: Sally Roberts MADISON, Wis.-A small gathering of environmental managers, brokers, insurers, consultants and others attended the inaugural Advanced Environmental Risk Management Strategies seminar at the University of Wisconsin in Madison last month. The program was presented by the Environmental Risk...

  Tags: environment, FINANCE, Insurance, Strategy, University of Wisconsin

• This Book Provides a Complete Summary of the Development of Liability Transfer Contracts Offered by Remediation Firms

  - 2006-05-19

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c37157) has announced the addition of Environmental Liability and the Emerging Art Form of Transference: A Comprehensive Guide to Transferring Financial Risk to Third Parties When Buying & Selling Contaminated Property to their offering Environmental Liability and the Emerging Art Form of Transference...

  Tags: Environmental, FINANCE, Insurance, Litigation, University of Wisconsin

• Prohibitions on Health Insurance Underwriting: A Means of Making Health Insurance Available or a Cause of Market Failure?

  BNET - 2004-01-26

  Underwriting restrictions are passed to discourage insurers from discriminating in a way that is contrary to social policy. In addition to prohibiting socially unacceptable discrimination, underwriting restrictions also have the potential of changing the consumption of insurance. This paper examines underwriting regulations that prohibit insurers from using disability status, gender...

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• University Of Wisconsin Gets Risk Management/Insurance Chair

  - 2003-10-13

  Gerald D. Stephens, RLI Insurance Co. founder and chairman, has given $1.5 million to the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Business to establish a risk management and insurance chair and program. The gift will provide support to a top educator and researcher in risk management and insurance,...

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• American Family Insurance Claims Naming Rights to Madison, Wis., Hospital.

  - 2003-03-06

  By Joe Manning, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--With a $10 million gift, American Family Insurance Co. has claimed naming rights to the $55 million American Family Children's Hospital expected to begin construction in Madison next year. ...

  Tags: HEALTHCARE, hospital, insurance, University of Wisconsin

• Insurance Council disputes professor on redlining. (Wisconsin Insurance Alliance disputes University of Wisconsin Professor Gregory Squires' article in Nov 22, 1993 issue)

  - 1993-12-27

  TO THE EDITOR: In a recent "Another Perspective," University of Wisconsin Sociology Professor Gregory Squires suggested that insurance redlining practices exist in Milwaukee and other major cities and are causing deterioration of those c TO THE EDITOR: In a recent...

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