18 Monday Jun 2012
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The Supreme Court will render its verdict on the health care law enacted by the Obama administration with in the next couple of weeks. This could cause extreme uncertainty in the health care industry. The following article from Insurance News discusses this further.
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
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Santa Claus will need a lot more than milk and cookies this Christmas—he’ll need about $1.2 million to pay for insurance coverage.
That will buy him peace of mind and about $1.175 billion in coverage for all of the exposures his workshop faces in the making and delivery of toys to children around the world, according to a new risk and insurance “white” paper by global risk management and insurance brokerage firm Lockton that was made available to Insurance Journal.
Risk management and insurance elves at Lockton made a list and checked it twice of all of the exposures K. Kringle Manufacturing Inc. faces on a yearly basis. The special report discusses 14 claims scenarios, appropriate insurance coverages with limits, and the cost to protect Santa and his operations against everything from toys in transit (ocean marine) and reindeer injuries (exotic animal coverage) to airborne sleigh accidents (aviation) and coal handling for “naughty” kids (pollution). It even provides crime coverage to protect against theft by The Grinch.
The premiums range from $5,000 for a Lloyd’s policy to cover one of Santa’s most valuable assets, his beard, to $754,000 for workers’ compensation and employers liability coverage for Santa and his employee elves.
Lockton’s elves say the risk management program they developed should “help ensure the smooth manufacturing of millions of toys, a content workforce of elves, and tremendous peace of mind for the jolly man in the red suit.”
In one claims scenario, half of the “naughty or nice” list is lost when the data processing system crashes due to a failure at the local power facility at the North Pole. Lockton says this points out the need for an electronic data processing policy, which will provide up to $3 million in coverage to reconstruct the data. It only costs $12,000.
Lockton’s plan also raises the possibility of a claim when the wrapping paper section of the workshop catches fire because Christmas decorations are stored too close to the Yuletide fireplace. The suggestion is $100 million in property coverage for the workshop and its contents.
In another claims scenario, mistletoe hanging above the candy cane converter accidentally falls into the electrical box of the machine. The conveyor explodes due to a surge of electrical current and the system is inoperable for more than a week. Since Santa’s Workshop has a lot of toy manufacturing equipment, Lockton recommends Santa purchase $50 million in equipment breakdown coverage to cover loss from the accidental breakdown of equipment.
Lockton’s “The Night Before Riskmas: A Holiday Risk Management Tale” opens with a customized version of the familiar “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas.”
A brief excerpt from Lockton’s version reads:
‘Twas the night before Riskmas, and throughout Santa’s shop,
Not an exposure was covered, from bottom to top.
Though elves worked hard to make toys with great care,
The risk for injury was still always there.
Santa should have been nestled all snug in his bed,
But visions of big losses danced in his head.
The tale ends on a positive note:
So Santa gave his risk manager permission to bind,
Leaving him fully covered, with great peace of mind.
Then, as he loudly exclaimed, and breathed a sigh of delight,
“Merry Riskmas to all, and to all a good night.”
For the complete Lockton “Night Before Riskmas” poem and risk management program for K. Kringle Manufacturing Inc., visit Lockton.com.
Contributing Lockton Elves: TJ Collins, Andrew Davis, Paige Lowder, Dustin Olsen, Ziri Rolston and Stephanie Seidel.
More than 4,100 professionals at Lockton provide more than 15,000 clients around the world with insurance, benefits, and risk management services. From its founding in 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri, Lockton has grown to become the largest privately held insurance broker in the world and is No. 1 in Insurance Journal’s Top 100.
Insurance Journal. 12/19/11. http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/12/19/227948.htm.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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The databases Bank Scope and ISIS are now available off-campus thorugh the St. John’s University proxy server. When you navigate to the Davis Library’s “InsureAccess” page:
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/libraries/campus/davis/InsureRef/InsureAccess.stj
You may click on either of these links and you will be prompted to enter you user name and password, just as if you were logging on to any of the university desktop PCs.
This will make 24/7 access easier to our digital resources and hopefully make those final semester projects that require this information a bit less demanding.
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
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The Davis Library has added the Morningstar® EnCorr® software to its subscriptions. EnCorr features advanced asset allocation tools to create, analyze, and implement optimal portfolio strategies. EnCorr is an integrated solution for conducting capital markets research and asset allocation modeling. It helps build diversified portfolios designed to generate robust returns at varying risk levels along the efficient frontier.
The software provides invaluable support to anyone who develops asset allocation strategies including investment consultants, fund of fund managers, and portfolio managers who work with pension, public, or defined benefit plans, as well as endowments or foundations.
You will find EnCorr on public access PCs #1-#6 in the Davs Library. If you have any questions about this new software, please see one of the library staff members.
14 Monday Nov 2011
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Since 1971, The Insurance Sservices Office (ISO) has been a leading source of information about property/casualty insurance risk. ISO provides a broad spectrum of commercial and personal lines of insurance, including:
Listed below are the 20011 TOP 100 insurance groups by segment. The Davis Library receives these rankings quarterly from ISO and the information is made available as an Excel® spreadsheet package. This makes it easy to analyze and manipulate this vital statistical financial information by cutting and pasting data into other applications.
Top Insurance Groups Second Quarter Monthly
Top Insurance Groups Second Quarter (year to date info)
if you would additional information on any of these companies or have questions about how ISO compiles these list contact the Davis Library at 212 277 5135 or email – davislibrary@stjohns.edu.
28 Friday Oct 2011
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The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – is now permanently free through online access.
The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665.
While the Royal Society Journal has a definite scientific focus, there are numerous insurance related documents including documents on natural disasters, commercial insurance concerns and health and life insurance issues in the Journal’s over 60,000 historical scientific papers. This data archive is fully searchable, with papers published more than 70 years ago.
Some of the notable Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.
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