Computer chip theft booming, risk mgrs. warned.(risk managers): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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From the supplier: Technology Theft Prevention Foundation Exec Dir MaryLu Korkuch has warned the risk managers of electronics firms about the heightened rate of theft of computer chips. Korkuch, the strategic initiatives manager for the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos., the insurance company that created the foundation in 1995, says that computer chips are popular items among the criminal classes as their great worth gives lets them function as a type of currency akin to cash. Computer chips are such attractive theft targets that the average Chubb claim for chip theft has climbed from $5,000 in 1991 to $450,000 in 1994.

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Title: Computer chip theft booming, risk mgrs. warned.(risk managers)
Author: Lisa S. Howard
Publication:National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 22, 1996
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n17 Page: p5(2)

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