Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Humana’s Shaw Chosen 2014 President of RIMS
Jan 3 2014 // RIMS, the risk management society, reports that Carolyn M. Snow will be president for the 2014 term. Snow is the director of Risk Management for Humana Inc. She has been a member of RIMS for 14 years and has been on its...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires McIntyre Risk Management in New Jersey
Dec 23 2013 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced its acquisition of McIntyre Risk Management LLC in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2002, McIntyre Risk Management is a retail...
Verisk Climate, WDT to Develop Weather-Related Analytics Products for Businesses
Dec 18 2013 // Verisk Climate, a provider of enterprise climate risk management products, and Weather Decision Technologies (WDT), a weather industry technology provider, have formed a long-term alliance to develop new, more advanced...
Protx Risk Management Launches Bancshield+ Portfolio for Community Banks
Dec 12 2013 // Protx Risk Management LLC, a managing general agency that focuses on professional liability insurance, has introduced a suite of professional liability products for U.S. community banks, including directors and officers...
First Niagara Risk Management in New York Announces 2 Promotions
Dec 10 2013 // First Niagara Risk Management Inc., a Buffalo, N.Y.-based insurance brokerage, promoted Kim McGillicuddy to senior vice president. McGillicuddy has been serving as enterprise sales leader and is responsible for developing,...
JLT Towner Acquires Charter Risk Management Services in Connecticut
Dec 3 2013 // JLT Towner Insurance Management (USA), LLC, announced its acquisition of Charter Risk Management Services, LLC, a Connecticut captive management company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Under the transaction,...
When Coverage Isn’t Enough: Managing Risk a Challenge for Insureds
Dec 2 2013 // Companies of all types and sizes are facing increased risks, but many are not putting adequate programs in place to manage those risks, according to a Zurich-sponsored study by Forbes Insights. As a result, companies are...
Transforming Your Customer Experiences in a Lean Environment
Dec 2 2013 // Toyota Motor Cars, Toyota Production Systems, and Taichi Ohno have nearly perfected lean manufacturing techniques. TPS has been in constant pursuit of perfection since the concept of lean was introduced by Sakichi Toyoda...
PLUS in Orlando
Nov 18 2013 // P/C Industry Urged to Get ‘Sexy’ and ‘Bold’ on Extreme Risk Products It’s time for the insurance industry to be “bold” and “sexy” in creating new insurance products and...
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Adds Healthcare Risk Management
Nov 13 2013 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is expanding its healthcare professional liability capabilities to provide customers with customized risk management support. The company will now reimburse qualified healthcare...
Dodd-Frank Swaps Rule Could Impact Insurers’ Risk Management, Ratings: S&P
Nov 11 2013 // Ratings analysts at Standard & Poor’s say that a Dodd-Frank provision having to do with derivatives could improve insurers’ risk management and have a minor impact on ratings. In response to the financial...
Lockton’s ‘Compass’ System Helps Multinationals with Global Compliance
Nov 6 2013 // “One of the growing concerns among multinational risk managers is global insurance program compliance,” a bulletin from Lockton notes. As a result the global insurance broker has launched a new online system...
World Needs Insurance Industry to Be ‘Bold’ and ‘Sexy’ Now, PLUS Told
Nov 4 2013 // It’s time for the insurance industry to be “bold” and “sexy” in creating new insurance products and services to help the world deal with extreme risks that are becoming more common, according...
Advisen: Historians May See 2013 as ‘Cyber Tipping-Point’
Nov 4 2013 // Historians may look at the year 2013 as a “cyber tipping-point” — the point at which businesses and governments finally realized the severity of the threats they were facing, according to Advisen, a New...
Risk Managers: Loss of TRIA Would Limit, Possibly End, Terrorism Coverage
Oct 30 2013 // A majority of risk professionals believe expiration of the federal terrorism reinsurance program would result in a decrease of affordable terrorism coverage or, even, the total elimination of the coverage, according to a...
Advisen: Historians May See 2013 as ‘Cyber Tipping-Point’
Oct 28 2013 // Historians may look at the year 2013 as a “cyber tipping-point” — the point at which businesses and governments finally realized the severity of the threats they were facing, according to Advisen, a New...
Verisk Climate, HSB Launch Service to Assess Electrical Blackout Risk
Oct 24 2013 // Verisk Climate and The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. (HSB) have introduced new technology and consulting services that help insurers and businesses predict the likelihood, severity, and financial...
Cook Named Vice President of Risk Management for IMA in Colorado
Oct 22 2013 // IMA Inc. named Lawrence Cook to its risk management team as a vice president. Cook will be focused on the management of existing captive insurance programs as well as the development of new group captive...
Insurance Industry to Benefit from Clean Energy Boom
Oct 21 2013 // The renewable energy industry could be spending three times as much on insurance every year by 2020 to mitigate risks to projects, says a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report, commissioned by Swiss Re, looked...
Insurers Respond to Risk Managers at FERMA Forum – Part 2
Oct 4 2013 // After the risk managers expressed their views on how re/insurance carriers were handling such matters as innovation, new policies and claims handling at the Federation of European Risk Management Associations’...
