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        "uri": "/2003/09/01/no-real-relief-on-premiums/",
        "title": "No Real Relief On Premiums",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "September 01, 2003",
        "timeToRead": "11 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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            "name": "Russ Banham"
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Risk managers are struggling to keep up with rising costs, despite leveling off in property",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2003/08/01/taming-the-monster/",
        "title": "Taming the Monster",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "Best Practices",
        "prettyDate": "August 01, 2003",
        "timeToRead": "12 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        ],
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            "uri": "/best-practices/",
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        ],
        "summary": "Companies are turning to captives to contain escalating costs for employee benefit plans",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2003/04/01/all-pain-no-gain/",
        "title": "All Pain, No Gain",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "April 01, 2003",
        "timeToRead": "15 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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          }
        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Insurers may be doing better financially in 2003, but shortfalls in reserve funds and lackluster markets may mean premiums will keep moving up for a while",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2003/02/01/oh-those-unmanageable-workers-comp-costs/",
        "title": "Oh, Those Unmanageable Workers Comp Costs!",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "February 01, 2003",
        "timeToRead": "9 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Never under the rigid rules of managed care, workers comp keeps setting a faster pace for the growth in medical care costs. Can it ever be brought into line?",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2002/12/01/covered-maybe-not/",
        "title": "Covered? Maybe Not",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "December 01, 2002",
        "timeToRead": "8 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Directors and officers start to sweat as insurers equivocate on D&O coverage",
        "body": null
      },
      {
        "uri": "/2002/10/01/toxic-numbers/",
        "title": "Toxic Numbers",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 01, 2002",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Environmentalists push SEC to make companies fess up on liabilities",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2002/06/01/backstop-or-bailout/",
        "title": "Backstop Or Bailout",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "June 01, 2002",
        "timeToRead": "11 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
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        "summary": "Immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal reinsurance facility made sense for struggling insurers. Today, as the sector recovers, the need isn't so clear",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2002/05/01/real-time-real-pressure/",
        "title": "Real Time Real Pressure",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "May 01, 2002",
        "timeToRead": "8 minute",
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        },
        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "Post Enron, the CFO is on the hot seat when it comes to information. Everyone from the board, to Wall Street, to investors, to the SEC wants assurances that there are no surprises ahead",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2002/04/01/are-kidnappers-changing-the-rules/",
        "title": "Are Kidnappers Changing The Rules?",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "April 01, 2002",
        "timeToRead": "12 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "With the escalation in Muslim fanaticism, post 9/11, the risk to U.S. executives working overseas may become a question of life or death",
        "body": null
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      {
        "uri": "/2001/10/01/group-therapy/",
        "title": "Group Therapy",
        "byline": "Russ Banham",
        "kicker": "",
        "prettyDate": "October 01, 2001",
        "timeToRead": "8 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        ],
        "kickerNode": [],
        "summary": "With workers' comp premiums skyrocketing, companies are joining self-insured groups with others in their industries",
        "body": null
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