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The Edge - September 2009
  • Nanotechnology: The Smallest Big Risk
  • What is the Next Chinese Drywall? Nailing Down Construction Risks
  • Beware Inflation: Why Insurers Can't Ignore It
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April 2009
  • The Global Financial Crisis: Emerging Issues Roundtable
  • Recession Redux: The Impact of the Economy on Workers’ Compensation
  • EPLI and the Global Financial Crisis: Claims Trends, Insurance Coverage and Underwriting Considerations
September 2008
  • Foodborne Illness: A Guide to Healthy Underwriting
  • Enterprise Risk Management – As Much Cultural as Analytics
  • What Is My Company Worth? Valuing a Managing General Agency (MGA)
  • Subprime Slime, Part II: The Expanding Credit Crisis
October 2007
  • Global Warming – A Convenient Nobel Prize
  • Florida Home Insurance: Adam Smith’s Worst Nightmare
  • The Subprime Slime Continues to Spread
November 2006
  • Pandemic Risk Roundtable
  • Tainted Spinach
  • Business Interruption Exposures Often Surpass Damage Exposures
  • To Settle or Not to Settle
April 2006
  • Tighten Your Seatbelts
  • Effect of Medicare Set Aside Regulations on Workers’ Compensation Claims
  • Deceptive Trade Practices - A Multi-Billion Dollar Threat
  • How Katrina Rocked the Surety Market
May 2005
  • Live Test - Lessons Learned from 2004 Hurricanes
  • Suits and Scandals - Professional Liability Implications
  • You Give Me Fever - Wildlife Center Rabies Claim
  • Terminal Collapse - All the Ingredients for Lengthy and Expensive Litigation
  • Hog Heaven - Livestock Risk Protection
October 2004
  • Tort Reform in the United States
  • Naked Short Selling
  • The Wal-Mart Wave: Will the Wal-Mart decision signal an increase in sex
    discrimination class actions filed against large corporations?
  • Exposed to Silica: The Next Asbestos?
  • Does Sarbanes-Oxley Really Matter?

Contrast - January 2009

  • Letter from the Editor
  • Pearls in a Sea of Uncertainty: A Primer on Potential Liabilities in Electronic Medical Records
  • One More Thing to Worry About in Your Settlements: The Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007

Contrast is a publication of Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., created by our Bermuda Healthcare team and sent to its clients and industry contacts.
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Contrast - September 2008
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Advanced Strategies for Defending Complex Brain and Spinal Cord Cases - Part 3 of 3
  • Uncharted Waters: Provider Liability in the Age of Medical Preemption
Contrast - April 2008
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Advanced Strategies for Defending Complex Brain and Spinal Cord Cases - Part 2 of 3
  • Innovations in Jury Trial Practices are Abundant, But Do They Make Case Evaluation and Choice of Venue More Complicated?
October 2007
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Tort Reform: Is the Pendulum Swinging Back?
  • Advanced Strategies for Defending Complex Brain and Spinal Cord Cases - Part 1 of 3
August 2006
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Maximize the Benefits of Outcome Disclosure with Early Mediation
  • Several Recent Developments in Pre and Neo-Natal Care Might Lower
  • Risk of Lawsuits for Hospitals
September 2005
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Defending Against Claims of Medical Negligence
  • Interpreting a Decision Tree Analysis of a Lawsuit
March 2005
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Attacking Damages - (Without Adversely Affecting Your Liability Defenses in the New Litigation Environment): Part II
  • Tilting the Playing Field - Special Weapons and Tactics in Jury Selection: Part I
September 2004
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Defense Mediation Videos for Catastrophic Injury Cases
  • 20 Questions - An interview with Theresa Zagnoli, CEO, Zagnoli, McEvoy Foley LLC
  • Determining Present Cash Value of Claimed Future Economic Losses
July 2004
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Loss of Life Expectancy - A New Element of Damages?
  • Consumer Protection for Structured Settlements
  • 20 Questions - Installment Number 3 with John D. Gilleland, PhD, of Browne DecisionQuest, Chicago, Illinois
October 2003
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Punitive Damages Russian Roulette - Implications of the Campbell
  • Decision for Healthcare Defendants
  • Why Juries Turn Against Doctors
  • 20 Questions - Interview with Dr. Richard Waites, Attorney & Chief Trial Psychologist for The Advocates
June 2003
  • Letter from the Editor
  • Billion Dollar Awards
  • 20 Questions - Litigation Insights From Leading Trial Scientists

Insight & Perspectives - October 2009
  • Welcome
  • False Claims Act Amendments: Increased Exposures for Health Care Providers

Insight & Perspectives is a publication of Endurance U.S. Healthcare Insurance Services Corporation, created by our US Healthcare team and sent to its clients and industry contacts.
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Insight & Perspectives - August 2009
  • Welcome
  • Physician Integration: Opening the Door to a Changed Vision
Insight & Perspectives - January 2009
  • Welcome
  • The Current Status of Tort Reform and What Might Happen in the Near Future: Anyone Have a Ouija Board?
Insight & Perspectives - September 2008
  • Welcome
  • The Broad Benefit of Enterprise Risk Management

Articles & Presentations
March 2010 Strategic and Financial Benefits of ERM
- 2010 AIFA Insurance Conference (March 1, 2010)
February 2010

Future of Cat Modeling: Complementing Software with Lateral Networks and Open Source Strategies
- RAA Cat Modeling 2010 Conference (February 11, 2010)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Insurance Conference
- February 23, 2010
October 2009 Specialization: One key to successful partnership - Interview with James D'Onofrio, Executive Vice President and Head of Reinsurance, Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America
- Reactions PCI Reporter (October 27 2009)
Sustaining success in a challenging market - Interview with William M. Jewett, President and CEO, Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance
- Reactions PCI Reporter (October 26 2009)
ASHRM 2009 Conference - Enterprise Risk Management
September 2009 Inflation risk - Interview with Hans-Joachim Guenther, Chief Underwriting Officer and Head of Endurance Reinsurance, Europe and Asia and Jeffrey Dollinger, Chief Actuary, Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance
- Reactions Rendez-Vous Reporter (September 8 2009)
Sustaining success - Interview with William M. Jewett, President and CEO, Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance
- Reactions Rendez-Vous Reporter (September 7 2009)
October 2008

Specialty Focus Key to Success - Interview with William Jewett, President & CEO, Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance
- Reactions PCI Reporter (October 27 2008)
Property Experts Differentiate Themselves from the Crowd - Interview with Chris Schaper, Chief Underwriting Officer and Head of Reinsurance, Bermuda, Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd. and Ed Kenney, Senior Vice President and Chief Property Officer, Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America
- Reactions PCI Reporter (October 28 2008)
Casualty Specialists Focus on Risk - Interview with Kevin Rooney, Senior Vice President & Chief Casualty Officer and Jim D’Onofrio, Senior Vice President, U.S. Casualty Reinsurance, Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America
- Reactions PCI Reporter (October 29 2008)
September 2008

Global Expansion - Interview with William Jewett, President & CEO, Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance
- Reactions Rendez-Vous Reporter (September 8, 2008)

Our Success Strategy - Interview with Hans Joachim Guenther, Chief Underwriting Officer and Head of Reinsurance, Europe & Asia and Chris Schaper, Chief Bermuda, Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd.
- Reactions Rendez-Vous Reporter (September 9, 2008)
June 2008 The Wall Street Transcript Interview with Michael McGuire, Chief Financial Officer of Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd.
April 2008 Special Blend: Enterprise Risk Management Allows Insurers to View the Whole Operation As Well As Its Individual Segments
October 2007 The Specialist’s Specialist: Five Minutes with William Jewett, President and CEO of Endurance Worldwide Reinsurance Operations
Agricultural leaders: Five Minutes with Roger Heckman, Bill Fischer, and Dr. Bin Zhang of Endurance Reinsurance
Enterprise Risk Management - ESLCA Conference
Risk Mitigation - ASHRM Client Appreciation Breakfast
September 2007 Enterprise Risk Management  Loss Reserve Risk Strategy and Plan B
August 2007

Current Developments in Reinsurance Markets - ARIA Annual Meeting
November 2006 Hurricane Reserving Presentation to Casualty Actuarial Society
Specialization Plus Security - A Formula for the Future
February 2004

Anatomy of a Reinsurance Arbitration Clause