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Somali pirates don’t give up — as we see today with the news that the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama was almost hijacked for a second time. Just seven months ago, the ship was attacked and its captain, Richard Phillips, was taken hostage on a lifeboat for five days. The standoff ended with Navy SEAL sharpshooters killing [...]
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In Risk Management’s December issue this year, we are including a “Decade of Risk” feature that will recap how the events of the last ten years have seen — or more accurately, forced — a rapid evolution of the risk management.
We hope this will not only add some good perspective on just how far the [...]
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It was recently reported that a Russian circus bear killed a circus manager, 25-year-old Dmitry Potapov, and critically injured another circus worker who tried to rescue the manager. Though we may not hear about every incident involving a circus animal who turns on its captors, there are plenty of eye-raising instances, such as the one [...]
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Anybody who watched the Tampa Bay Buccaneers play the Carolina Panthers last Sunday got to see one of the more egregious fouls in recent NFL history. With only 0:10 left to go in the first half, Carolina punted to Tampa Bay for what was supposed to be an otherwise normal return. What happened, however, was [...]
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One of the things I most enjoy doing is writing my “First Word” column, which appears at the beginning of each issue of Risk Management. It passes for what would be the editor’s page in most other publications, but a while back, I decided that if I was going to take up a page in [...]
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