Virginia Business - December 2005 COVER STORY Surviving the storm Marsh's Virginia brokers cope with parent company's scandal.
Asessing the damage Insurance executives says losses could affect rates, coverage.
SPECIAL REPORT: The Legal Elite Legal trends: Elder law comes of age | Audio Report (plus profiles and listings of Virginia's top CPAs)
NEWS & FEATURES Burying the "death" tax Will Virginia kill its estate tax in 2006?
REGIONAL REPORT High costs haven't hampered Charlottesville area's growth
INDOOR Biotechnologies blazing a path for spinoffs
Community college receives $1.2 million for science building
Growth & Development: Charlottesville area roundup
573,000 Amount of donations made to statewide political candiates by home builders in 2005; the same group gave just $143,000 in 2001. Source: Virginia Public Access Project
DEPARTMENTS Editor's Corner - Storms and taxes
Virginia Ideas - How much should small business owners pay themselves?
Commercial Real Estate Quaterly - 2005 brings expansion and repositioning - Turning losers into winners is Tetra Cos. mission - Corporate location revives Gordonsville's downtown - Liberty Center updates Wilson Boulevard - Real estate roundup
Around the Old Dominion - Confronting the cash crunch - Virginia creates new Web portal - Jacksonville dropping out of the running for Oceana jets - Katrina causes donation drought for local charities - Plateau Systems lands major airline training contract - Petersburg center to create 500 jobs
Followups An update on companies and trends featured in recent issues: - Betsy Duke - Micron Technology - FLYi Inc. - Freddie Mac
Reporter's Notebook Notes and thoughts from the travels of Virginia Business writers and editors
Publisher's Profile Priscilla Hottle and F. Dudley Fulton
