The Lockton report on Shareholder Securities Litigation Affecting Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Claims.
August 2005 PURPOSE The goal of this study is to provide our clients with meaningful and useful quantitative data on directors and officers liability losses through examination of shareholder class action securities claims specifically involving directors and officers. We focus exclusively on litigation that directly...

Centaurus Aligns With eMoney Advisor to Offer Best-Of-Breed Technology to Advisors.
Centaurus Financial Selects eMoney Advisor as Wealth Management Solution CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Centaurus Financial, Inc. has selected eMoney Advisor (http://www.emoneyadvisor.com/) as a wealth management solution of choice for its financial consultants. "We chose eMoney because it stood as first-in-class in all areas...

Managing the risk of identity theft: thieves are no longer just content with your car or your laptop. They want to steal you, and the identities and private information of your employees and customers.
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing white-collar crimes in America. It is one of the few crimes where individual victims not only must prove that they have been harmed, but are also responsible for reclaiming their stolen identity. Businesses can also be the victims of...

Should appraisers guarantee rebuilds?
FOR YEARS, LENDERS HAVE BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO ASKING RESIDENTIAL APPRAISERS IF A HOME CAN BE REBUILT OR NOT. NORMALLY, THIS QUESTION ARISES WHEN THE HOME IS IN AN ATYPICAL ZONE, SUCH AS A COMMERCIAL ZONE, THAT MAY NOT NORMALLY ALLOW FOR RESIDENTIAL USES. The lender is concerned that if...

Schwab Institutional Expands Offering to Help Advisors Transitioning to Independence.
Plans Include Insurance and Real Estate Offers, Start-Up Financing, Planning Tools, Expanded Service Team; New National Ad Campaign Also Launched SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Schwab Institutional, a leading provider of custodial, operational and trading support for more than 5,000 independent investment advisors today announced an...

Securitizing audit failure risk: an alternative to caps on damages.
INTRODUCTION I. AUDIT FAILURE: RISK AND CONTROL A. Audit Constituents and Stakes B. Public Policy 1. Audit Effectiveness 2. Deterrence 3. The Insurance Argument C. The Role of Insurance 1. Optimality 2. Statistical Independence 3. Limiting Probability 4. Limiting Magnitude 5. Distributing Residual Risk II. EXISTING INSURANCE FOR AUDIT...

TenFold Announces Financial Results for Quarter And Year Ended December 31, 2000.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- TenFold Corporation (Nasdaq: TENF), a provider of large-scale applications and the Universal Application(TM), today announced financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2000. For the year ended December 31, 2000, revenues were $62.8 million compared...

TenFold Announces Second Quarter Results.
SALT LAKE CITY, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- TenFold Corporation (Nasdaq: TENF), a provider of the Universal Application(TM) applications platform and large-scale applications, today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2001. TenFold reported second quarter revenues of $21.5 million and net income of $1.7...

TenFold Reports First Quarter Results.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- TenFold Corporation (Nasdaq: TENF), a provider of the Universal Application(TM) and large-scale applications, today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2001. First quarter revenues of $11.3 million were down 64% compared to revenues of $31.7...

Beyond remediation. (Special Report: Environmental).
The environmental services industry is developing new services to assist its clients in areas related to management consulting, waste minimization, industrial water quality, and pollution prevention programs. Environmental liabilities, it seemed, were once synonymous with Superfund. A business' major environmental concern was being named partly responsible for...