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A discussion on risks faced by not-for-profits and how to analyze and insure the risks of your not-for-profit.

Annual Meeting 2006: Managing risk is an important part of every in-house lawyer’s portfolio. How do you balance the negotiations of limitations of liability and indemnification provisions without risking the deal? What can your company live with, and what can you recommend and still sleep at night? What leverage can you exert against a party that is a Goliath when you are David? Learn about legal strategies, and take home best practice methods to apply in your own company.

With its rapidly growing economy and expanding middle class, India has become an increasingly attractive market in which to invest and do business. While there has been a liberalization of the Indian economy, regulatory constraints and other challenges remain. Learn about the key bureaucratic, regulatory and legal considerations of making investments, creating joint ventures and distributing products in India, including protecting technology transfers to India and selecting suitable dispute resolution mechanisms.

Add value to your enterprise and learn when and how to put your insurance program out to bid, including bringing in competition for entrenched brokers. The program will discuss how to execute a request for bid to insurance providers, how to utilize your current broker and/or consultants in the process and traps for the unwary in the application process.

This document provides tips on how to bring a compliance program to your company.

This Preventing Workplace Violence training course includes information about (1) workplace-violence prevention, (2) risk factors, (3) how to identify a threatening situation, and (4) what to do if you're in or near one.

To access the Preventing Workplace Violence Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35558-preventing-workplace-violence>…;.

This Internal Controls training course is intended to increase your awareness and understanding of internal controls — what they are, why we have them, and how they affect your day-to-day job responsibilities.

To access the Internal Controls Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35539-internal-controls>www.acc.com/…;.

This material focuses on the business opportunities for in-house counsel to operate in a risky world. It explores ways and tools to use the strategic legal risk management as a competitive advantage and how your role and performance can be aligned to strategic risk.

Given the cyclical nature of the insurance markets, which have compensated for recent disasters and increases in litigation by raising premiums substantially, numerous nonprofit organizations have struggled to better manage this process. Many have tried alternative arrangements such as insurance captives, which place the organization in an ownership position and more directly involved in the process. Other nonprofit organizations have reviewed their risk management practices and have come up with new ideas and concepts, including enterprise risk management.

Purchasing international health benefits is an increasingly complex responsibility. Don’t be caught unaware. A wide variety of US laws and regulations (federal and state) and other jurisdictions’ regulations may apply to the coverage that employers purchase for their global employees. Understanding the compliance environment is the first step in developing a strategy to manage and minimize the risks associated with purchasing international benefits.

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