Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 25 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
2006: Soft market offers up many new insurance products
Dec 25 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 25 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 25 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 24 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 24 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
Global warming represents watershed event for insurance industry
Dec 24 2006 // At various points in history — the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, urban riots of the 1960s, and terrorism today — watershed events or trends ushered in structural changes within the U.S. insurance industry....
2006 New Markets Report
Dec 24 2006 // E&O, Professional/Management Liability New P/C Insurance Agents’ E&O Rockwood Programs partnered with certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London to offer professional liability coverage specifically...
Five keys to captive success
Dec 10 2006 // Whether you’re talking about road contractors or hospitals or agents and brokers, every organization has in-house expertise. And you want to use it. You need to bring members together to share best practices. The...
Actuaries Assume New Role In Age of Enterprise Risk Management
Dec 8 2006 // Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) requires actuaries to assume the role of strategic risk managers in instituting what is essentially a cultural change in a company’s operations, actuaries were told at the Casualty...
Insurers Get Serious About Enterprise Risk Management, Tillinghast Reports
Dec 5 2006 // Driven in part by increased demands from regulatory and rating agencies, enterprise risk management (ERM) has become integral to insurers’ business processes around the world. Sixty percent of survey respondents...
Oswald Opens Minneapolis Office
Nov 27 2006 // Oswald Companies, an insurance brokerage firm, announced the opening of a Minneapolis office. The focus of the new office is business insurance solutions in property & casualty and benefits for manufacturing, retail,...
Commercial Premiums, Except Coastal Property, Continued Falling in 3Q
Nov 7 2006 // Commercial insurance premiums fell slightly in the third quarter of this year, representing a continuation of the trends that occurred in the past two quarters, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, which surveys current...
Social services agencies need extra care and an agent’s helping hand
Nov 6 2006 // While they may require more attention, nonprofits offer opportunity for growth and profit, says industry specialist Insurance Journal’s Andrea Ortega-Wells, Mogelnicki explains why the nonprofit social services...
Social services agencies need extra care and an agent’s helping hand
Nov 5 2006 // Few independent agents recognize that they can make profits from not-for-profit organizations, says Dan Mogelnicki, president of Manhasset, N.Y.-based NIF Underwriting Facilities, a program administrator and wholesale...
Study Reveals Leading Indicators for Hospital Professional Liability Claims
Oct 31 2006 // Advisen Ltd., a provider of analytics, benchmarking and market information to the global commercial insurance industry, released the results of its recent hospital professional liability claims study done in cooperation...
Breeding the next generation through internships
Oct 23 2006 // In cooperation with insurance industry partners, universities across the nation are helping to cultivate the next generation of risk managers and actuarial scientists through insurance internship programs. As an example,...
Aon Names Aigotti as First CRO
Oct 18 2006 // Chicago-based Aon announced it has named Corporate Treasurer Diane Aigotti to the new position of Chief Risk Officer. Aigotti will work with business units around the world to identify, measure and manage key risks...
Dallas Risk Management Firm Now Has Two Presidents
Oct 11 2006 // Chris Hughes, with Swingle, Collins & Associates, is the new president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas (IIAD). Swingle Collins reported that Hughes joins officer ranks with firm president, Frank Swingle,...
Resource Constraints Hinder Risk Managers From Preparing For Catastrophes
Oct 10 2006 // Time and resource constraints are hindering risk managers’ efforts to help their organizations prepare for catastrophes, such as power outages, avian flu or extreme weather, according to the latest Economist...
