Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Risk Managers Like, Don’t Like, Obama Budget Reinsurance Proposals
Feb 15 2011 // Risk managers have found things to like, and not like, in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year. The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) expressed its continued opposition to a...
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Feb 10 2011 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s Property and Inland Marine Division has promoted two insurance executives: Grace Thomas and Cecil Wilson. Thomas was promoted to divisional senior vice...
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Feb 7 2011 // FARA Insurance Services, a Mandeville, La.-based provider of claims administration and risk management solutions nationwide, appointed Laura Tarantino to the company’s board of directors. As FARA’s senior vice...
How to Become Chief Risk Officer for Small Business Clients
Feb 7 2011 // Some small business owners are expressing their intentions to invest in future growth, as economic storm clouds of the past few years show signs of clearing. The National Federation of Independent Business’ latest...
Public Entities Forced to Adjust Sails in Fiscal Storm
Feb 7 2011 // State and municipal governments are facing tight budgets and many are having difficulty paying for their police, fire, schools and services. Where the municipalities can’t cut back, however, is on...
Super Bowl Risk Management a Team Effort
Feb 4 2011 // The Super Bowl XLV may be the biggest game of the year, and to some, it also presents super-sized risk management challenges. The National Football League said it is expecting a record crowd of 105,000 attendees at Cowboys...
Huber Named as New Project Coordinator for FERMA Team
Jan 27 2011 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has expanded its office team with the appointment of Silke Huber as project coordinator. She will be involved with FERMA’s events, particularly the Risk...
MHBT Names New Partners
Jan 25 2011 // Dallas-based MHBT, one of the largest privately owned insurance and risk management firms in the United States, recently announced that Ryan Bowles, Dan King, Jim Moss and Travis Sartain have been named partners in the...
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Jan 24 2011 // Marsh appointed Jill Sulkes as head of its U.S. Financial Institutions Practice. Sulkes has more than 15 years of experience in risk management for financial institutions, most recently as a managing director in...
Mastrolia To Lead Construction Risk Management at Marsh
Jan 20 2011 // Marsh has named Anthony Mastrolia leader of construction risk management within its U.S. construction practice. Mastrolia, who will be based in New Jersey, is a 35-year vertern of the insurance and risk management...
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Jan 10 2011 // Todd Teitell, executive vice president and branch leader of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. Other elected TSLA officers for the coming year...
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Jan 10 2011 // Pennsylvania-based wholesaler USG Insurance Services has named Jason Holloman as property broker specializing in large commercial and CAT-exposed risks. Holloman most recently served as a wholesale property broker with...
12 Days of Riskmas: An Insurance Broker’s Story
Dec 23 2010 // In giving her Christmas gifts for 12 straight days, a true love inspires his girlfriend to build a whole new life. It’s a joyful story for the holidays but one that comes with risks. According to the popular...
12 Days of Riskmas: An Insurance Broker’s Story
Dec 22 2010 // In giving her Christmas gifts for 12 straight days, a true love inspires his girlfriend to build a whole new life. It’s a joyful story for the holidays but one that comes with risks. According to the popular...
Bieber Joins ProMutual as Risk Consultant
Dec 21 2010 // Boston-based insurer ProMutual Group has hired Linda Bieber as risk management consultant. Bieber, a nurse, will provided physician office appraisals and risk management services to insured hospitals and emergency...
Insurance Vital to Alabama Coast Long-Term Plan, Says Commission
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
ACE USA Appoints Mattheessen, Vest to Leadership Positions in Texas
Dec 14 2010 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, has appointed Keith Mattheessen as senior vice president for ACE Risk Management’s (ARM) Houston region, and Laura Vest as senior vice president and...
RMS Conducts Risk Analysis for SCOR’s Atlas VI Cat Bonds
Dec 13 2010 // Risk Management Solutions announced that it has successfully conducted the expert risk analysis for the second issuance of the Atlas VI bond (Series 2010-I Class A Notes) sponsored by French reinsurer SCOR Group. The...
Lockton, Germany’s Funk Group Extend Service Pact
Dec 2 2010 // Two large privately-held and independent insurance brokers, U.S.-based Lockton and Germany’s Funk Group, said they will expand their risk management service alliance. Through the alliance, Funk will provide risk...
Lockton Expands Risk Management Services with Germany’s Funk Group
Dec 2 2010 // Insurance brokers Lockton and Germany’s Funk Group announced that they will expand their risk management service alliance. “Through the alliance, Funk will provide risk management support for Lockton clients in...
