Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
RHSB’s Jones Receives Cyber Risk Management Leadership Award
Nov 20 2014 // Douglas R. Jones, senior vice president and principal at Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton, was presented with the Cyber Risk Management Leadership Award 2014-15 at the annual Cyber Risk Management Boot Camp held...
York Names Bijarchi Vice President in California
Nov 19 2014 // York Risk Services Group has named Bijan Bijarchi vice president of risk management practices. Bijarchi will be based in Orange, Calif. York’s risk management practices division specializes in custom claims and risk...
Milestone Risk Management in California Names Stonehouse President
Nov 17 2014 // Milestone Risk Management of Irvine, Calif. has named Steve Stonehouse its new president. Stonehouse begins at the start of 2015. Stonehouse created Stonehouse Consulting Group after retiring from the carrier CNA in 2012...
York Risk Services Group Acquires RMPG in New York
Nov 17 2014 // York Risk Services Group Inc., a Parsippany, New Jersey-based provider of claims management, managed care, risk management and specialized loss adjusting services, has acquired Risk Management Planning Group (RMPG) in...
5 Tips for Clients to Consider When Buying Cyber Liability
Nov 17 2014 // There’s been a myriad of articles outlining the benefits of cyber liability insurance following the well-publicized data breaches of Target, P.F. Chang’s, JPMorgan Chase, eBay, Home Depot and hundreds of other...
ACE Report Urges Risk Managers to Reexamine Capabilities of Insurer Partners
Nov 11 2014 // ACE urged risk managers at multinational European companies to reexamine the capabilities of their global insurance partners as the international regulatory and business environment grows increasingly complex. The...
MyPath Portal: Can It Lure Millennials to Insurance Careers?
Nov 3 2014 // With the insurance industry employee base rapidly aging and retiring, a number of companies and organizations in the field have come up with something that they hope will draw more young adults into the sector. Their...
How to Navigate Today’s Agency E&O Market
Nov 3 2014 // While many agencies stick with their agency errors and omissions (E&O) carrier, those that do shop around tend to do so when premiums are rising. According to Insurance Journal‘s exclusive 2014 Agency E&O...
Marsh Previews Risk Management-Analytics Software
Oct 29 2014 // STARS, a business unit of Marsh that provides risk, safety, and claims management software, analytics and services, previewed STARS | ONE, an alpha version of its next-generation risk management platform to 350 global...
MyPath Portal Aims to Attract Millennials to Insurance Careers
Oct 23 2014 // With the insurance industry employee base rapidly aging and retiring, a number of companies and organizations in the field have come up with something that they hope will draw more young adults into the sector. Their...
Climate Change Report Slams Insurers for ‘Profound Lack of Preparedness’
Oct 22 2014 // A report on the insurance industry released Wednesday shows “a profound lack of preparedness in addressing climate-related risks and opportunities.” Insurance industry representatives immediately criticized the...
Eight P&C Insurers Get Top Marks for Climate Change Risk Management
Oct 22 2014 // Munich Re and ACE Ltd. are among insurers that are best prepared to manage risks related to climate change, a lobbying group said. The nine insurers that were found to be integrating climate change into underwriting and...
Guidance on EU Rules Created for Audit, Risk Committees
Oct 21 2014 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) and the European Confederation of Institutes of Internal Auditing (ECIIA) have responded to increased EU requirements for more corporate transparency with a...
McCunniff Joins Texas-Based Bailey Insurance & Risk Management
Oct 20 2014 // Mark McCunniff has joined Bailey Insurance & Risk Management in Waco, Texas, as a commercial lines producer. Mark McCunniff McCunniff received his Risk Management & Insurance degree from Baylor University and spent...
Management of Top Risks Unsatisfactory, Say Risk Managers in FERMA Survey
Oct 20 2014 // Risk managers are not satisfied with the level of mitigation for six of the top 10 risks “that keep their CEO awake at night,” which is one of the key findings of the 2014 Risk Management Benchmarking Survey...
CDC Steps Up Ebola Risk Management, Names Expert Team for Hospitals
Oct 15 2014 // A team of infection experts will be sent to any U.S. hospital with a confirmed Ebola case, according to the nation’s top disease control official, who said such a group could have prevented the infection of a Dallas...
A.M. Best: UK Non-Life Insurers’ Profits Under Pressure
Oct 14 2014 // Profit margins in the U.K. non-life insurance sector are under pressure this year as companies fight to maintain pricing discipline in an extremely competitive market, according to a new A.M. Best special report. Premium...
CareRise Granted Third U.S. Patent for Nursing Facility Risk Management
Oct 2 2014 // The U.S. Patent Office has issued a third patent to Tim Goux, CEO of CareRise, a risk management company based in Mandeville, La. The patent further protects the company’s business method to reduce insurance claims...
Ace Launches Image Protect for the Middle East, North Africa
Sep 29 2014 // Ace Group has launched Image Protect, a product designed to help companies across the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) effectively manage their reputational risks. The move stems from the results of a recent...
University of North Texas Scholarship Program to Honor McLendon
Sep 17 2014 // A scholarship program for students majoring in risk management, insurance, or financial services at the University of North Texas has been established in honor of Maureen C. McLendon. McLendon, a Dallas-area insurance...
