Latest Risk Management Headlines

Workman Joins IRMI as Analyst

Sep 6 2006 // Millicent W. Workman has joined International Risk Management Institute Inc. (IRMI) based in Dallas, Texas, as a research analyst. She will be acting as the editor of IRMI’s newly acquired, Practical Risk Management,...

Sequoia Introduces Risk Management Package for Commercial Middle Market

Sep 5 2006 // Sequoia Insurance Co., has introduced Sequoia EDGE, a risk management package designed for a broad range of middle market customers. It will be available for business starting Sept. 15, 2006, in California. Oregon and...

Make insurance, risk management appeal to college grads: ‘Smash the Myths’

Sep 4 2006 // One of the most serious problems facing the insurance industry today is the acute shortage of bright, college-educated young people entering the profession. Walk around any college campus and you’ll find that the...

News Currents

Sep 4 2006 // Premiums remain flat in second quarter except in hurricane-exposed regions, risk managers report According to the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.’s Benchmark Survey, commercial insurance premiums were flat...

To make insurance appealing to college grads, smash the myths

Sep 4 2006 // One of the most serious problems facing the insurance industry today is the acute shortage of bright, college-educated young people entering the profession. Walk around any college campus and you’ll find that the...

Also, Phillip Hill was elected chief financial officer and vice president of operations. Hill has been part of Ogilvy-Hi

Sep 4 2006 // People Ogilvy-Hill Insurance elected Mark Shipp president and CEO. Shipp has been with Ogilvy Hill for 11 years. In addition to his new role as president/CEO he will continue to build new relationships in the field. The...

Risk Management Solutions Analyzes Calif. Wildfire Data

Aug 28 2006 // Risk Management Solutions, Newark, Calif., has applied its RMS Wildfire Hazard Data to analyze recent fires that have burned almost twice as much area as the five-year average for the same time period. The RMS data was...

London American Risk Specialists Announces CareSurance™ Liability Program

Aug 24 2006 // Houston, Texas – London American Risk Specialists, Inc is pleased to offer CareSurance™ , a new liability insurance program designed to meet the needs of Skilled, Assisted and Independent Long Term Care (LTC)...

IDB Contracts with ABS Corporate Solutions/EQECAT for Cat Project

Aug 23 2006 // ABS Corporate Solutions, and its affiliate EQECAT, Inc. announced that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has signed a contract for a catastrophic risk analysis project focusing on Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru and...

Golf Course Risks and Greek Mythology?

Aug 21 2006 // Golf and Country Clubs First task. Impress the readers. Risk management is a Sisyphean challenge. First task accomplished? Probably not yet. Let me continue. In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a deceitful king who was...

Golf Course Risks and Greek Mythology

Aug 21 2006 // In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a deceitful king who was condemned to spend eternity pushing a giant boulder up a mountain. As Sisyphus approached the peak of the mountain, the rock would elude him and roll back down to...

Congressional hearing held on terrorism and insurance

Aug 7 2006 // Agents, risk managers and insurers press Congress for long-term TRIA solution Two U.S. House subcommittees–the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversights and Investigation, and the Homeland Security...

Aug 7 2006 // People Dallas-based McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP named Kyle Moss a partner in the firm. Moss, previously employee benefits director in MHBT’s Dallas office, is responsible for the production and servicing of...

Miscellaneous Health Care Facilities: Risk mixing and matching

Jul 24 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 24 2006 // People Minneapolis, Minn.-based ING named Susan Anderson president and CEO of ING Trust USA. Anderson will lead the growth and development of personal trust and directed institutional trusts nationally. She has 15 years of...

Miscellaneous Health Care Facilities: Risk mixing and matching

Jul 24 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...

Valverde Named VP of I.I.I.

Jul 24 2006 // The Insurance Information Institute has promoted Dr. L. James Valverde Jr. to vice president of Economics and Risk Management. Dr. Valverde joined the I.I.I. in August 2005 as director of Economics and Risk Management,...

Travelers ‘CD’ Targets Risk Control for Tech Firms

Jul 21 2006 // Travelers has created a new CD, “The Best of Technology Risk Control,” to assist technology businesses seeking information on topics such as business continuity, workers’ compensation and manufacturing...

ACE USA Realigns Construction Industry Practice

Jul 19 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced that its Construction Industry Practice, formerly part of ACE Risk Management, will now become a unit of ACE Casualty Risk, and...

Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference

Jul 4 2006 // Despite recent adversity and scrutiny faced by the insurance industry, financial ratings for companies appear on the upswing. “For the first time that I can remember we have a period where none of the sectors that we...