Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Marsh Warns New UAE Risk Mgmt. Rules to Impact Financial Sector
Apr 1 2010 // A bulletin from Marsh’s London office warns that “firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could fall foul of new corporate governance rules and corporate discipline regulations unless they adopt a more systemic...
FERMA Survey Polls Commercial Buyers for Feedback to Insurers
Apr 1 2010 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) announced that it is presently conducting, “a wide-ranging, risk management benchmarking survey,” aimed at compiling data to let insurers know...
Travelers Construction Develops Product for Tile Contractors
Mar 29 2010 // Travelers Construction Insurance has developed a new IndustryEdge product for tile contractors to help manage the need for additional insurance coverage and related services. The new IndustryEdge products include insurance...
Zurich Launches Risk Management Tool for Technology Companies
Mar 25 2010 // Zurich has launched Zurich Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) HealthCheck Tool to help provide mid-size to large technology companies with a realistic check of their current ERM preparedness. ERM can help to uncover and...
RMS to Collaborate with Asia Capital Re to Enhance Asian Cat Models
Mar 24 2010 // Risk Management Solutions announced that it has reached an agreement with Asia Capital Reinsurance Group (ACR) that they will work together to “develop catastrophe risk models enabling ACR to apply the models of...
Innovative Use of Insurance Tools in Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Development
Mar 22 2010 // The devastating effects of Hurricane Ivan in the summer of 2004, when it crossed the Caribbean Sea causing major damage in Grenada, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, produced one good thing. The Caribbean Community and...
8 New Markets in Response to Current Trends
Mar 22 2010 // Insurance Companies Generate New Programs to Bring in Additional Premium The last few years of the soft market have forced many carriers and agencies to get creative when it comes to bringing in additional premium. This...
Economy Raises Risk Management Stakes for Architects, Engineers
Mar 22 2010 // Risk management is a topic of concern for many types of professionals, none more so than those involved in the building trades. “Unfortunately, the stakes are raised in tough economic times,” said attorney Jay...
UK Risk Managers Warn of Harm to Business in New Solvency II Proposals
Mar 22 2010 // The Solvency II reforms, as currently proposed, “would reduce the amount of insurance capacity available to UK businesses and put up the cost of cover,” according to the UK’s AIRMIC (the Association of...
Marsh: Environmental Liability Concerns Top Risk Management Agenda
Mar 19 2010 // “The heightened environmental liabilities created by recent European Union (EU) and UK environmental legislation were among the top risk management concerns raised by delegates at this week’s Base conference in...
CCRIF Considering Need to Expand Coverages after Haiti Quake
Mar 17 2010 // A bulletin from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) indicates that many of its member countries “are re-examining their preparedness for natural catastrophes, including their levels of coverage...
IMA of Texas Launches Contractual Risk Management Practice
Mar 15 2010 // Insurance and risk management services company, IMA Financial Group Inc., has established a contract management practice at its retail insurance brokerage subsidiary, IMA of Texas. George Schneller J.D., manager of the...
Economy Raises Risk Management Stakes for Architects, Engineers
Mar 15 2010 // Risk management is a topic of concern for many types of professionals, none more so than those involved in the building trades. “Unfortunately, the stakes are raised in tough economic times,” said attorney Jay...
Carey and Buss Join Impact Risk Solutions in Houston
Mar 12 2010 // Impact Risk Solutions, the brokerage arm of CHS insurance subsidiary, Ag States Group, has added Edward Carey and Matthew Buss to its risk management team. Carey and Buss will work out of the company’s Houston...
Philadelphia’s St. Joseph’s University Adds Insurance, Double Major Program
Mar 9 2010 // Brian Durkin’s academic resume is longer than most. Durkin, who has an associate’s degree in accounting, will graduate from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia this spring with a bachelor of science...
Ewing-Leavitt Insurance Agency Names Hagge VP of Risk Management
Mar 2 2010 // Loveland, Colo.-based Ewing-Leavitt Insurance Agency, a Leavitt Group affiliate, has named Patrick Hagge vice president of risk management. Hagge will focus on providing safety and risk management support to clients. Hagge...
Marsh Says UK’s Manslaughter Act Heightens Risk Management Need
Feb 26 2010 // A bulletin from Marsh’s London office warns Organizations in England and Wales that they must embed “robust health and safety risk management practices or face severe financial and reputational penalties in the...
AAMGA Funds $1 Million Insurance Chair at Georgia State University
Feb 26 2010 // The wholesale insurance industry association, American Association of Managing General Agents (AAMGA), has created a Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at...
‘Hackers’ Prompt Lockton to Advise Risk Managers on Cyber Thieves
Feb 25 2010 // “A new wave of hacker attacks is breaching corporate and outsourced information systems with one information security firm recently detailing coordinated hacker attacks on 2,400 companies and government agencies...
Marsh Concludes Energy Sector Applies Risk Lessons from Past Losses
Feb 24 2010 // New research by Marsh has concluded that, “despite an increase in the size and scale of new energy infrastructure projects, national oil companies (NOCs) and other energy and chemical concerns are experiencing fewer...
