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No, it’s not the credit crisis or the looming threat of cyber crime or business continuity during a natural disaster or the overall state of the national economy that keeps American business owners awake at night. It is, according to most, the shortage of talent and skills. This may seem strange, seeing as were are [...]

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When the band Kings of Leon scheduled their international tour, they covered the far flung possibility of event cancellation with Lloyd’s of London, taking out a $15 million policy, according to Rolling Stone. And now, Lloyd’s may have to pay up. At a Dallas, Texas, show just a few days ago, lead singer Caleb Followill [...]

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Just days ago we unveiled the June issue of Risk Management featuring a “Behind the Music” cover story on the many — and sometimes deadly — risks of music festivals written by the infinitely talented Emily Holbrook. While the sex, drugs and rock and roll dangers are more sensational, the possibilities of event cancellation are [...]

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The soft market can’t last forever. This thing is cyclical, we know, and commercial insurance buyers have had a very long stretch of favorable pricing. As we conveyed in Risk Management magazine last August, various industry forces appeared to be starting to turn the property/casualty market naturally. So after a devastating first quarter for catastrophe [...]

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