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Healthcare liability moves beyond hospitals to specialized facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable” and in the health care arena that especially rings true. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

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Jul 3 2006 // Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only...

Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Jul 3 2006 // People Trindl Reeves joined Barney & Barney, San Diego, as a principal, responsible for the ongoing growth of Barney & Barney in San Diego and Orange County. She will be based in San Diego. Reeves, formerly...

Healthcare liability moves beyond hospitals to specialized facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable” and in the health care arena that especially rings true. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Backstage: Risk management planning for one of the nation’s largest festivals

Jun 19 2006 // It is ten days before your client’s multi-million dollar, world famous, music festival. You receive news that a CAT 5 hurricane is heading right for the event. If this storm hits, it will wash away equipment, fans...

Lloyd’s forecast for Northeast: Storms, global warming threats are real

Jun 19 2006 // The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood...

A tale of two New Orleans hotels

Jun 19 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...

Beecher Carlson Expands Risk Services/Captive Operations in Denver

Jun 13 2006 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has expanded its risk services/captive operations with the appointment of Richard (Dick) Huntington as senior vice President and Carol Riggs as...

Market trends downward slightly; habitational still a challenge

Jun 5 2006 // After the recent hard markets, rates for professional liability insurance for architects and engineers are beginning to see some relief. Even so — despite 10 percent to 20 percent drops in professional liability...

Multi-family housing: How to slow the A&E claims flow

Jun 5 2006 // Would architects or engineers accept a fee of $70,000 knowing that it would result in a $1 million loss? Probably not, yet that’s exactly what they are likely to be faced with when designing a multi-family use...

Risk managers report cost of risk down in 2005

Jun 5 2006 // The commercial insurance industry remained a buyers’ market in 2005, and shows no signs of hardening any time soon, according to the 2005 Annual Benchmark Survey from the Risk and Insurance Management Society...

Benfield Corporate Risk Opens Australian Office in Perth

Jun 2 2006 // Benfield Corporate Risk, the corporate insurance and risk intermediary catering for the risk management and transfer needs of the corporate sector worldwide, announced the opening of its first office in...

Survey: Risk Managers Report Cost of Risk Down in 2005

May 25 2006 // The commercial insurance industry remained a buyers’ market in 2005, and shows no signs of hardening any time soon, according to the 2005 Annual Benchmark Survey from the Risk and Insurance Management Society...

S&P: Most Insurers’ Enterprise Risk Management At Least Adequate

May 23 2006 // Any insurance organization without effective risk management faces losing its competitive position or, worse, exposing itself to unacceptable losses, according to an article published by Standard & Poor’s...

Krall to Replace Boller as Converium’s Chief Risk Officer

May 23 2006 // Converium has appointed Markus Krall as Chief Risk Officer and as a member of the Company’s Global Executive Committee, effective July 1, 2006. He places Hans-Peter Boller. Krall, 43, a German citizen, is currently a...

Re-modeling the models that evaluate risk

May 22 2006 // “In the past two years, natural disasters have reached an unprecedented frequency and intensity spreading chaos and misery, and leaving countless crumbled, tattered and water-logged properties in their wake....

A tale of two New Orleans hotels

May 22 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...

Re-modeling the models that evaluate risk

May 22 2006 // Taking a lesson from 2005’s hurricanes, Paul VanderMarck, executive vice president at Risk Management Solutions, a modeling company based in Newark, Calif., said companies need to re-evaluate their loss potential...