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Monthly Archives: September 2011

At-home workers create new risks for employers

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As more companies allow their workforces to move from cubicles to home offices, outdated risk management plans may not be keeping up with the exposures related to at-home workers.   “A lot of companies are waiting and seeing,” said Richard Lenkov, president of the Chicago-based National Workers’ Compensation Coalition and a partner with Chicago-based Bryce

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No big payday for stolen fine art

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Police in Athens, Greece have just recovered a valuable 17th century painting, stolen ten years ago from a museum in Europe. They’ve arrested two people. Trafficking in fine art and other antiquities has emerged as the third most lucrative criminal activity in the world behind only drugs and guns. “It’s a $6 billion industry,” according

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Tax cuts could set off India wine boom

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HONG KONG: Cash-rich emerging Asian markets, especially India, could see an explosion in wine consumption in the future – if their government scraps import taxes altogether, the way Hong Kong did in 2008, maintains wine expert Jeannie Cho Lee. That move ushered an explosion in fine wine consumption and sales in all of greater China

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