Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Diversification, Risk Modeling Top of Mind for Carriers as Cyber Liability Market Softens
May 19 2025 // As cyber insurance rates have begun to stabilize, insurance carriers are seeking more diversification to fuel their underwriting and growth strategies, according to panelists at this year’s PLUS Cyber Symposium in...
Risk Management Considerations When Having Family Fun
May 19 2025 // One of my favorite recent additions to our Academy of Insurance catalog has been our How To Write series. We have used this series of sponsored content to highlight niche markets so agents can be exposed to what makes for...
Leaning into Uncertainty and Managing Risk
May 19 2025 // In a climate of rapid, often unforeseen change, leaning into uncertainty and adapting quickly is not easy but is always advantageous. For businesses to respond to challenges and harness opportunities for growth and...
Markets/Coverages: MGA Pen Launches Enhanced Cyber Risk Management Platform
May 13 2025 // Pen Underwriting, the London-based managing general agent, has invested in a new cyber protection platform called “Pen Protect,” which aims to equip all its cyber policyholders around the world with an...
People Moves: Marsh Taps FERMA’s Beaupérin as Client Leader, Risk Management, Europe; Sompo Int’l Holdings Names Walsh as Independent Non-Exec Chair
May 8 2025 // Marsh Taps FERMA’s Beaupérin as Client Leader, Risk Management, Europe Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced the appointment of Typhaine Beaupérin as client leader, Risk Management,...
Diversification, Risk Modeling Top of Mind for Carriers as Cyber Market Softens
Mar 17 2025 // As cyber insurance rates have begun to stabilize, insurance carriers are seeking more diversification to fuel their underwriting and growth strategies, according to panelists at this year’s PLUS Cyber Symposium in...
Preventing Workplace Violence Not One-Size-Fits-All Exercise: Risk Management Experts
Mar 10 2025 // Businesses are now required to implement robust workplace violence prevention plans in California under a new law that became effective in July 2024. But risk management experts warn that compliance needs to be more than a...
Climate Risks Again Top List of Risk Manager Worries
Feb 7 2025 // Climate risks, disruptive technology and geopolitical instability are what worry risk managers most, according to a joint survey from the Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society of Actuaries. The 18th Annual Emerging...
Wildfire-Risk Models Are Struggling to Predict LA-Style Fires
Jan 22 2025 // Among natural disasters, wildfires are the great unknown. Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors or properly account for the increasing impact of climate change. It’s a...
A Los Angeles Actuary on Lessons From the Palisades Fire
Jan 16 2025 // I watched as the skies over my home in Los Angeles turned an apocalyptic orange on January 7, 2025, as wildfires raged across the state. Among the most devastating, the Palisades Fire consumed thousands of acres, leaving a...
Markets/Coverages: Marsh Offers Insurance to Manage Risks of Fake Carbon Credits
Nov 4 2024 // Marsh, the insurance broker and business of Marsh McLennan, has partnered with We2Sure, a specialist in insurance and risk management solutions for carbon credit certificates, to launch a new insurance facility to help...
Insurance Professionals Invited to HAI Group’s Award-Winning Virtual Risk Management Conference on Nov. 7
Oct 17 2024 // Comprehensive Strategies for Tackling Existing and Emerging Multifamily Housing Threats Date: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 Venue: Zoom Time: 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT – HAI Group is pleased to announce its...
The Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer: Leading AI Innovation and Risk Management
Oct 4 2024 // Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a new technology with the potential to completely reshape business practices and create new avenues for innovation. It will significantly impact virtually every...
Viewpoint: East Coast Port Strike: Insurance and Risk Management Implications
Oct 1 2024 // As it has many times before, the International Longshore Association (ILA) threatened a strike, beginning October 1, that would shut down major ports along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, with...
Vermont Lags in Risk Management for Natural Disasters Including Flooding
Sep 12 2024 // Vermont has failed to complete many actions in its five-year hazard mitigation plan aimed at reducing the risk from natural disasters such as flooding, according to a new report from the state auditor’s office. The...
EPIC Insurance Inks Deal to Provide Risk Management for Miami Dolphins, Stadium
Sep 5 2024 // EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, headquartered in San Francisco, is now the official provider of risk management services for the Miami Dolphins football team and Hard Rock Stadium. The deal, announced Thursday,...
Florida Peninsula MGA Changes Name to Windward Risk Managers
Aug 21 2024 // Florida Peninsula Managers, the managing general agency for Florida Peninsula Insurance and Edison Insurance, has officially changed its name to Windward Risk Managers, the name of the company that has managed it for...
People Moves: Powers Insurance & Risk Management Promotes Winkelmann
Aug 15 2024 // Rachel Winkelmann Powers Insurance & Risk Management, headquartered in St. Louis, recently promoted Rachel Winkelmann to commercial lines account executive and trainer. As Powers’ new trainer, Winkelmann handles...
UNC Launches Risk Management Institute with IAP’s Ursano Chair of Advisory Board
Aug 15 2024 // The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced it is launching an Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, an interdisciplinary research and innovation center. “The new institute will...
People Moves: Powers Insurance & Risk Management Adds Gaglioti and Hester; GuideOne Insurance Names Sheets SVP and General Counsel
Aug 5 2024 // Powers Insurance & Risk Management Adds Gaglioti and Hester Brittany Gaglioti Powers Insurance & Risk Management, headquartered in St. Louis, hired Brittany Gaglioti as a commercial account manager and Contina...
