Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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’...
FERMA Offers Trialogue between Risk Managers, Carriers and Brokers – Part 1
Oct 4 2013 // The insurance industry may have given the world a new word – “trialogue,” meaning a three way conversation. Oddly enough the first person to use it at the Federation of European Risk Management...
Former FERMA President Luzzi Joins Broker MDS for Herco Global
Oct 3 2013 // On the same day that he turned over the presidency of FERMA to Julia Graham, London-based broker MDS announced that “Jorge Luzzi has been appointed as Executive President of Herco Global, the risk management company...
Julia Graham is New FERMA President
Oct 3 2013 // Julia Graham, Director of Risk Management and Insurance for the global law firm DLA Piper, acceded to the position of president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) at the close of its...
‘Rear View Mirror’ Political Risk Management No Longer Works: Marsh
Sep 30 2013 // In an age of social media, simply looking at what has happened in the past no longer works to forecast what political events lie ahead in emerging markets, insurance and risk management firm Marsh advises. The speed at...
Declarations
Sep 23 2013 // Lonely “It’s lonely sometimes with all the guys.” —Sen. Katrina Frye Shealy, who is also an insurance producer, on being the only woman in the South Carolina Senate. Shake Up “We have gone above...
IMA Names Broz President, Maley Executive VP in Dallas Office
Sep 20 2013 // Retail insurance broker, IMA Inc. has added Rob Broz as its new president in Dallas and Kathie Maley as executive vice president. Broz joined the Dallas team to lead the company’s initiatives for growth. Maley...
Karen Clark & Co. Report Looks Back at New England Hurricane of 1938
Sep 16 2013 // Karen Clark & Company, independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, issued a report, in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane,...
Putting Together Risk Management Program for WTC Development Is a ‘Team Effort’
Sep 11 2013 // The new World Trade Center complex is taking shape; The 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story building at the southeast corner of the site being developed by Silverstein Properties, is scheduled to be completed this November...
Risk Management Services Launches Group E&O Plan for Life, Health Agents
Aug 30 2013 // Risk Management Services (RMS) has established a group errors & omissions insurance plan for life and health insurance agents in partnership with Gotham Insurance Co. Applications must be submitted via the...
Confusing Crop Insurance Rule Clarified for Midwest States
Aug 29 2013 // Farmers say they’re pleased with efforts by the federal Risk Management Agency to clarify rules for prevented planting insurance in five Upper Midwest states in 2014. The insurance pays farmers if their cropland is...
Bunch Named to University of Houston-Downtown Advisory Council
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
Colorado University Gets Support for ERM and Insurance Program
Aug 16 2013 // The College of Business at Colorado State University is a step closer to launching a program to train students in the insurance and risk management fields thanks to a $150,000 gift from the IMA Foundation. The Enterprise...
How to Manage the Winds of Change for High Net Worth Clients
Aug 16 2013 // As insurance professionals, we’re in the business of anticipating and responding to severe weather. However, heightened activity in recent years points to some startling trends: • Atlantic named storms in the month...
EPIC Acquires SafeHarbor Risk Management, Expands in East Coast
Aug 7 2013 // EPIC, a San Mateo, Calif.-based retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, acquired SafeHarbor Risk Management. Founded in 2009, privately-held SafeHarbor is a property/casualty...
Risk Managers Report Total Cost of Risk Up As Market Firms
Aug 5 2013 // Businesses paid about 5 percent more in 2012 than they did in 2011 to cover the total cost of risk. That compares to a rise of only 1.7 percent in 2011, according to the 2013 Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS)...
