Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aon Global Risk Analyzes Potential Impact of Swine Flu Outbreak
Apr 28 2009 // Aon has issued a bulletin analyzing the current outbreak of swine flu. Alex Hindson, head of enterprise risk management at Aon Global Risk Consulting, stated: “Health risks are unpredictable but given the possibility...
Risk Managers Report ‘Soft Landing’ for Market Pricing
Apr 21 2009 // Insurance premiums for businesses continued to slide towards a “soft landing” rather than an abrupt reversal resulting in rate increases, according to risk managers. While banks and other financial institutions...
AIR Reaches $10 Billion Cat Bond Modeling Milestone
Apr 7 2009 // Boston’s AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that it has provided risk modeling and analytical services for more than 10 billion dollars in insurance-linked securities since 1996 and over 56 percent of total...
People
Apr 6 2009 // Higginbotham & Associates, an independent insurance brokerage firm based in Ft. Worth, Texas, added employee benefits brokers John Collins, Dana Jones and Rob Marsh to its managing director team for 2009, in...
Measurement of Success
Apr 6 2009 // Planning, People and Dedication Equal Success for Top 100 Agency Bollinger Insurance Top 100 Agency Profile Ranking No.: 14 Agency Name: Bollinger Insurance Inc. Headquarters: Short Hills, N.J. Year Founded:...
Fastest Growing Industries to Focus On
Mar 23 2009 // Top 7 High-Growth Industries’ Risks and Unique Exposures Planning for the “upside” must begin now. The soft insurance market will end, and the rebound from the financial bottom will happen. But...
People
Mar 23 2009 // Kate Westover, vice president of Alternative Risk Financing at Innovative Captive Strategies, has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA). Based in Colchester,...
RMS Appoints Chief Technology Officer
Mar 23 2009 // Risk Management Solutions has appointed Philippe Stephan chief technology officer (CTO). Stephan has more than 20 years’ experience in software development and will apply his technology and leadership skills to the...
Stephens Insurance Hires Commercial Insurance Team from Regions
Mar 12 2009 // Arkansas-based independent insurance agency Stephens Insurance LLC has added eight insurance professionals to its commercial insurance services team in Little Rock. The eight-member team hails from Regions Insurance in...
Study: Safety Modifications Important for Aging Workforce
Mar 11 2009 // While the increase in older workers in the American workforce could suggest a corresponding decrease in workplace productivity and increase in accident claims, the opposite has proven to be true, says a risk management...
Jones Named VP, Technology Practice Leader at RHSB
Mar 5 2009 // Independent insurance brokerage firm and Assurex Global partner, Dallas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), appointed Douglas R. Jones as a vice president and principal. Jones, who specializes in insurance...
Marsh Issues Study on Managing Risk to Survive Current Recession
Mar 3 2009 // Marsh has launched a report highlighting the key risks companies face as the global economy slows and advice about how to tackle them. Entitled “Managing Through the Downturn,” the report highlights issues...
Heath to Lead Aon’s Risk Control Team for UK Corporations
Mar 3 2009 // Aon Global Risk Consulting has appointed Graham Heath as director of Risk Control UK. In this role, Graham will help UK corporate clients to improve their business performance through effective management of their...
U. Houston-Downtown to Offer Insurance, Risk Management Degree
Feb 25 2009 // The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved a proposal by the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to offer a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Insurance and Risk Management. The new degree...
The Relative Calm
Feb 22 2009 // At New York Forum, Industry Insiders Credit Risk Management for Minimizing Recession’s Impact To many, the insurance world seems to operate on its own theory of physics. And to the hundreds of high-powered industry...
Sterling Grant & Associates Hires Risk Manager
Feb 19 2009 // Sterling Grant & Associates has hired Timothy Zehring to the new position of risk manager in Phoenix. Zehring, a former Mesa, Ariz., police officer and founder of the International Crime Free Association, is...
Execs Credit Risk Management for Minimizing Recession’s Impact
Feb 19 2009 // To many, the insurance world seems to operate on its own theory of physics. And to the hundreds of high-powered industry execs who gathered on the third floor of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York earlier this year, there is...
RMS Advises How To Weather Scrutiny By A.M. Best
Feb 11 2009 // Following a major announcement that A.M. Best will be probing deeper into companies’ data quality to assess their risk management processes and the credibility of modeled losses, Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management...
Risk Management Solutions Issues Initial Report on Australia Bushfires
Feb 10 2009 // A report from Risk Management Solutions states that the current rash of bushfires in Australia is “one of its worst outbreaks of wildfires ever, with whole towns almost completely destroyed and over one hundred...
5 Risk Management Challenges for Public Entities in Today’s Economy
Feb 8 2009 // Local governments increased their commitment to risk management over the past decade, as they met the challenges posed by several major natural disaster and terrorism events. Better local government loss prevention, crisis...
