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		<title>Blame game continues with Italian cruise liner disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Edmundson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the true tragedy of the sinking of the cruise liner Costa Concordia begins to take full shape, the finger-pointing has grown from a whisper to a roar. Perhaps the ship was too close to the coast. Why didn&#8217;t the navigational system and sonar find the sand bank/rocks that gashed the ship? Aren&#8217;t these ships [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=3571&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Securities Litigation and publicly-traded Chinese firms: lacking checks and balances</title>
		<link>http://blog.wgains.com/2011/11/28/public-companies-beware-of-current-lack-of-checks-and-balances-in-china-and-other-foreign-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Edmundson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports continue to be made of accounting and corporate governance irregularities for publicly traded companies based in China.  These companies, which may be listed on stock markets in the U.S., Hong Kong, mainland China or some combination of the three have greatly increased in number over the past five years. Reports in today&#8217;s Wall Street [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=3388&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for Hurricane Irene</title>
		<link>http://blog.wgains.com/2011/08/25/preparing-for-hurricane-irene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Balboni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When confronted with an impending storm such as the forecasted Hurricane Irene, many companies find themselves vulnerable and unprepared for loss. This is particularly true in these difficult economic times when there is a greater dependency on a single source location for production capacity, inventory storage, third-party data centers, etc.  Additionally, many mid-size companies have not implemented, or even created, a comprehensive business continuity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=3004&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from last week&#8217;s doomsday predictions about risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 19:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Reilly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The May 21st predictions of the end of the world as we know it have proved wrong. Harold Camping and his followers, despite their most confident and infallible prediction (according to them) have been proven wrong. And while I don&#8217;t want to give any credence to Mr. Camping and his predictions (nor do I wish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2597&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Safety Modernization Act will increase product recall exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Edmundson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food borne illness hits an estimated 48 million people every year in America. One hundred thousand people will be hospitalized and thousands die annually. In response, Congress passed new legislation earlier this year that will have a profound impact on risk management of the food industry. Under this legislation, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2502&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bin Laden may be gone but terrorism threat still alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 16:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Gallagher Associates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news of Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s death by U.S. Special Forces marks a defining moment in the global fight against terrorism. The 09/11/01 attacks killed almost 3000 people and thousands more troops have lost their lives in the ensuing military campaigns. The continued ability of Bin Laden to evade capture had been trumpeted by militants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2484&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Placebo prescriptions called for Germans</title>
		<link>http://blog.wgains.com/2011/04/01/placebo-prescriptions-called-for-germans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Edmundson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[German medical authorities have been reported by the Associated Press to advise doctors to more frequently prescribe a placebo for the treatment of pain.  Clinical studies have shown that a placebo for back pain and other pain not associated with an otherwise acute event like a broken bone or cancer, can be more effective than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2354&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The potentialities of FEMA&#8217;s flood map revamp</title>
		<link>http://blog.wgains.com/2011/03/28/the-potentialities-of-femas-new-flood-map-revamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce MacDougall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 Congress appropriated $220 million to FEMA for a program called Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning (Risk MAP), a comprehensive 5-year plan to vastly improve the accuracy and quality of National Flood Insurance Program maps. The plan is designed to bring wider risk mitigation while incorporating risk separation tools and techniques to flood prone areas with maximum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2328&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MA decision imposes duty on commercial landlords to remedy unsafe conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Mizner McKay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 1, 2011, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts determined for the first time that a law which concerns a landlord&#8217;s duty to make repairs when notified of an unsafe condition, now applies to all commercial landlords in the state. As a result of the case of Bishop v. TES Realty Trust, commercial landlords [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2310&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquakes in the Northeast &#8211; are we insured?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Edmundson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time there is a huge earthquake in one part of the world, it is common and certainly appropriate for other parts of the world to consider the risk of earthquakes closer to home. The Northeast is home to infrequent but not insignificant earthquakes. During 2010, an earthquake in Bernardsville, New Jersey along the Ramapo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.wgains.com&amp;blog=9867145&amp;post=2298&amp;subd=wgains&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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