Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Political Risk Rises But Risk Experts, Insurers Face Crunch Too
Nov 11 2008 // Fear of conflict, instability, crime and increasing state intervention arising from the financial crisis might sound like good news for political risk consultancies that have sprung up in recent years — but in...
Lockton Insurance Brokers Names Baker Health Risk Management Director
Nov 7 2008 // Jesica Baker has joined Lockton Insurance Brokers LLC, the Southern California subsidiary of Lockton Companies, as director of health risk management. Baker’s expertise in the healthcare industry spans more than 20...
A Winning E&O Defensive Strategy: How Agents Can Block Claims
Nov 4 2008 // In sports, the best offense is a great defense, right? When it comes to preventing errors and omissions claims defensive measures are also the best offense in protecting an insurance agency. Defensive strategies, or risk...
Reputational Risk … at Risk
Nov 2 2008 // Corporate Citizenship Could Offer Tarnished Companies the Best Mitigation Strategy Recent corporate crises have demonstrated that a company’s reputation, that may have taken years to build, can be destroyed in...
Nov 2 2008 // Aon Consulting announced that Mark Arian has joined the firm as executive vice president and leader of the Aon Consulting Corporate Transactions group, focusing on mergers and acquisitions. Arian and his team will be...
Reputational Risk …at Risk
Nov 2 2008 // Corporate Citizenship Could Offer Tarnished Companies the Best Mitigation Strategy Recent corporate crises have demonstrated that a company’s reputation, that may have taken years to build, can be destroyed in...
Reputational Risk …at Risk
Nov 2 2008 // Corporate Citizenship Could Offer Tarnished Companies the Best Mitigation Strategy Recent corporate crises have demonstrated that a company’s reputation, that may have taken years to build, can be destroyed in...
Foreclosed Residential Projects
Nov 2 2008 // When it’s Broken, How Do We Fix it? Halloween has come and gone, but modern-day ghost towns continue to haunt the U.S. landscape. After nearly a decade of exponential growth, developers and homebuilders have seen the...
Reputational Risk … at Risk
Nov 2 2008 // Corporate Citizenship Could Offer Tarnished Companies the Best Mitigation Strategy Recent corporate crises have demonstrated that a company’s reputation, that may have taken years to build, can be destroyed in...
Reputational Risk … at Risk
Nov 2 2008 // Corporate Citizenship Could Offer Tarnished Companies the Best Mitigation Strategy Recent corporate crises have demonstrated that a company’s reputation, that may have taken years to build, can be destroyed in...
Foreclosed Residential Projects
Nov 2 2008 // When It’s Broken, How Do We Fix It? Halloween has come and gone, but modern-day ghost towns continue to haunt the U.S. landscape. After nearly a decade of exponential growth, developers and homebuilders have seen the...
Risk Managers Report Price Softening; Insurers Battle Surplus Decline
Nov 2 2008 // Property Premiums Fall Sharply; P/C Insurers Post Q3 Losses; Some Sell Stock to Raise Cash for Surplus Woes Risk managers report that commercial policy renewal prices are continuing to drop even as insurers are battling a...
A Winning E&O Defensive Strategy
Nov 2 2008 // How Agents Block Claims In sports, the best offense is a great defense, right? When it comes to preventing errors and omissions claims defensive measures are also the best offense in protecting an insurance agency....
How Independent Agencies Reduce E&O Exposure
Nov 2 2008 // 40 Risk Management Steps Independent Agents Implemented to Lower Their Risk The exclusive 2008 Insurance Journal Agency E&O Survey asked independent agents what risk management steps their agency has implemented to...
Risk Managers Report Price Softening Despite Cat Losses, Financial Crisis
Oct 24 2008 // Two major hurricanes and a global credit crunch were not enough to derail the relentless soft commercial insurance market in the third quarter, according to RIMS Benchmark Survey, an industry survey of policy renewal...
Risk Management Solutions Opens Beijing Office
Oct 21 2008 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions has opened a new office in Beijing, China, as a sign of its commitment to support the growth of the property insurance industry and risk mitigation efforts in China. The...
Reputational Risk: Is It Time for Bankers to Risk an Apology?
Oct 20 2008 // No-one expects a fallen Master of the Universe to say sorry. But academics say an apology — for all the litigation risk it entails — can be the basis of revitalised confidence and trust. With global markets...
People
Oct 20 2008 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Lionheart Insurance Services hired Pat Piccinonno and Joe Weckerle Jr. to head its newly opened Irvine, Calif., office. Piccinonno, appointed president, has 35 years of insurance management and...
Financial Crisis Dominates European Risk Manager Debates, Conference
Oct 20 2008 // One of Pat Oliphant’s more recent editorial cartoons shows presidential candidate John McCain held in the trunk of an enraged elephant labeled “The Economy.” “My friends,” says McCain to a...
Willis Re’s Underwood Appointed to Board of Casualty Actuarial Society
Oct 16 2008 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global broker Willis Group Holdings, announced from its London headquarters the election of Alice Underwood to the Board of Directors of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) for a three...
