Article: Soft P/C prices provide breathing room for now.(Spotlight: Public Entity Risk Management)

Byline: JUDY GREENWALD

The soft property/casualty market has been a welcome development for U.S. public entity risk managers affected by the nation's economic downturn.

Increased P/C rates "would only double the pain,'' said Kathy Peeling, risk management specialist with the Annapolis, Md.-based Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

It is the "one silver lining'' in this situation, said John Nielsen, chief executive officer of the Fairlawn, Ohio-based Ohio Transit Risk Pool.

The public transit pool has been "able to come back with generally a better picture each of the last several years in terms of the cost of transferring risk, so in ...

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