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

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

For the Record
Mergers & acqusitions	Cutbacks, closings	Stocks, financing
Deals	Products, services	Legal, regulatory
New plants	Divestitures	Noteworthy
People	Expansions
Contracts	Real estate