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touchline@sportscover.com
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Welcome To Touchline
Our initial thought was to find a better way to
communicate with interested parties such as
yourself. Be it online, an email digest or carrier
pigeon, such was not our initial concern – we
simply wanted to find the best way to keep the
insurance and sport communities informed with
content that was interesting nd relevant, but may
not have been fully reported elsewhere.
The question that really started it all was
“What happens in the case where a landmark
action in Toronto affec s business in Glasgow,
Shanghai and Melbourne?” Traditionally, as this is
a fairly niche speciality, very little would be heard
outside of Toronto unless one went out on the
internet with the very specific intent of finding a
very specific story. Personally, I like to read. I do it
frequently and have always got a magazine or pro-
spectus in my bag to flip thro gh at the airport;
just to stay informed, just to keep current.
Touchline is a quarterly briefing, published
and distributed globally that will focus on sport
and risk, while still keeping an eye on global
affa rs, business and business culture. Although
publi hed by Sportscover, Touchline is very specifi-
cally designed not to be a “covert brochure”.
We just believe that everyone can be well informed,
conveniently.
I was surprised to find out just how many
writers were knowledgeable on the topic of sport
and its associated risks - we are fortunate enough
to have gathered a supremely talented writ-
ing team for our inaugural issue whose previous
experience I shall not get into the details of, but
will say come with backgrounds writing for
Reuters, BBC, CBC, Insurancenews.com.au as
well as Insurance and Risk.
Our aim with Touchline to ensure consistent,
impartial, factual, relevant and informative news,
served up in an easy to read, attractive format that
is compact enough to enjoy on-the-go.
This issue we cover a fairly broad spectrum
of topics. In our insight section, Maura Manning
covers the potential risk of a terror plot at the Beijing
Olympics and the steps that officials there have
taken to ensure safety by cooperating with
INTERPOL. We catch up with Fred Allsopp in
our Broker profile section and learn what he sees
as the key to his success, while in Sushi we dish
out the latest tidbits, factoids and other news
articlettes that are short enough to read in a queue,
but are great to know in case of an awkward pause
in conversation while trapped in the lifts.
We also present some of the most recent
research into accidents in the English Premier
League, and shows how through behavioural
patterns, The Beautiful Game may not be quite as
rosy for some players as it is for others.
I do hope you enjoy our first edition of
Touchline and encourage any and all feedback
that you have – questions, compliments, and
complaints. Let’s keep the dialogue flowing.
Best,
September 2008
The qua r t e r l y j ourna l o f spor t & r i s k wi t h an i n t e rna t i ona l pe r spec t i ve
Contents
Letter
Insight
Beijing: The Concern, The
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Risk, The Reality
Top Law F rm Under
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Investigatio For Misconduct
Shattering Maple Bats New
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Hazard in Major League
Baseball
World Cup 2010: Is Africa
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Ready?
IPL: Big Money For Season
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Ending Injuries
Best L ague in the World is
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also the most injury prone
Sushi
Is World Cup 2010 Insured?
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No room for Girls
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Injured Thrill Seekers Have
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No One To Blame But
Themselves
Tiger Tops Sporting Rich List
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2016 Olympics Venues
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Shortlisted
Calliden Fire A ency Boss in
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dispute over strategy
AIG posts $US5 billion loss
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Legal
Talking Tort
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Profile
Fred Allsopp,
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Insurance Advisernet Australia
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Your chance to win:
Touchline is launching a letters page where we encourage you to comment on articles, provide us with feedback on the
magazine and provide us with any comments on the sport and/or insurance industry that you feel you would like to make.
The best letter, in our opinion, will be printed in the next edition and its author will receive an iPod Nano. Letters should
be no more than 200 words and may be shortened for editorial reasons.
Please send letters and contact details to touchline@sportscover.com
Deadline: 31 October, 2008. Contest will be drawn 15 November, 2008 and the winner will be notified by email.
Contributors
Martin Kelly, Steve Boucher,
Ryan Haldane–Underwood,
Maura Manning,
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for more information.
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Haldane–Underwood
touchline@sportscover.com
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