Latest Risk Management Headlines

All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Bothwell to Manage Beecher Carlson in Boston

Mar 7 2005 // Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. has opened a Boston area office and appointed Robert J. Bothwell to lead the office as managing director in addition to heading the company’s National Energy Practice. The firm also...

FleetRisk Announces Analytics Center; Dupre’ Tansport to Test Pilot Project

Feb 16 2005 // FleetRisk Advisors of Alpharetta, Ga. has launched its Transportation Risk Analytics Center and Dupre’ Tansport LLC of Lafayette, La. will conduct a major pilot project using Fleet Risk’s TRAC service including...

Tillinghast Study: Insurers Welcome ERM Globally, but it Remains a Work in Progress

Feb 8 2005 // Insurers around the globe are making progress – quickly in some areas – with using an integrated risk and capital management approach to drive business decisions, according to the third biennial survey of risk...

MAKING SENSE OF RISK MANAGEMENT:

Feb 7 2005 // Aon is introducing a series of monthly risk management seminars in Oklahoma. The 2005 Oklahoma Business Risk Forums are aimed at executives involved in any aspect of the risk management process, including chief financial...

First Niagara Acquires Ithaca, N.Y. Agency

Feb 2 2005 // First Niagara Risk Management, Inc., the wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of First Niagara Bank , has reached an agreement to acquire the L.A. Lama Insurance Agency. The acquisition of the Ithaca-based agency, which has...

Aon to Hold Oklahoma Risk Management Seminars

Jan 27 2005 // Aon announced it is introducing a series of forums in Oklahoma aimed at helping make sense of the increasingly complex risk management environment. Aon designed the 2005 Oklahoma Business Risk Forums to offer participants...

Oil & Gas Industry Insurance & Risk Management Conference to be Held in Houston

Jan 20 2005 // Strategic Research Institute announced it will hold the 2nd Annual Insurance & Risk Management for the Oil & Gas Industry conference Feb. 28-March 1, 2005, at the Renaissance Houston in Houston, Texas. What are...

Car Buyers Get No-Charge Insurance in Volkswagen-Nationwide Pilot Program Based on Car Model Risk

Jan 3 2005 // A Long Island insurance think-tank has licensed Volkswagen of America Inc. to offer the industry’s first no- charge insurance policy to customers who purchase or lease selected models during a three-month test in...

Restaurants put risk management on the menu

Jan 2 2005 // The restaurant marketplace is becoming more complex than ever with food safety, marketing dominance by the chains and globalization on the minds of owners. Also, frivolous lawsuits against restaurants abound, so it...

Pa. Wildlife Officials Quash Coyote-Deer Risk Management Rumor

Dec 29 2004 // Did you hear the one about the insurance agent and the coyote? So have the Pennsylvania Game Commission, wildlife agencies in other states and insurers. They all dismiss as urban legend claims that insurance companies and...

St. Paul Travelers Risk Control Site

Dec 20 2004 // St. Paul Travelers announced the debut of a new Web site housing more than 1,400 risk management resources for customers, agents and brokers. Resources are said to include the latest research reports and news on safety...

ASHRAM Recognizes Popp as Distinguished Fellow

Dec 13 2004 // The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) recently awarded Pamela L. Popp, vice president of the Healthcare Practice for McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) in Dallas and Fort Worth, the designation...

Swiss Re “Risk Perception” Report Finds Accelerating Changes Complicate Risk Management

Dec 10 2004 // A new report in Swiss Re’s “Risk Perception” series finds that change is “continually accelerating, possible consequences tend to be greater and increasing uncertainty is rendering risks less...

Ill Winds Blow but the Ship Remains on Course

Dec 6 2004 // This year’s annual report on the reinsurance industry is a bit later than usual. It seems that beginning in August the voyage was interrupted by some serious storms, and it was hard to catch up to the boat as it...

St. Paul Travelers’ Risk Control

Dec 6 2004 // St. Paul Travelers announced the debut of a new Web site housing more than 1,400 risk management resources for customers, agents and brokers. The online resources available include a variety of industry-specific customer...

European Insurance Summit 2004 Offers Some Words to Live By

Dec 6 2004 // Rating agencies are a reality, and we have to live with them,” Martin Kauer, CFO, Converium AG. “Market share is the enemy of risk management,” Brian O’Hara, president and CEO, XL Capital....

FERMA Survey Finds Risk Managers Question Broker Compensation; More Transparency Needed

Dec 1 2004 // According to a recent e-mail survey, conducted by the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA), risk managers and their associations have long questioned how brokers are compensated. FERMA queried the...

Kirkland Joins Beecher Carlson Holdings Atlanta Office

Nov 30 2004 // Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. has announced Barry Kirkland has been named managing director and team leader in its Atlanta office. Kirkland’s primary responsibility will be to assist in the expansion of the risk...

Zurich Appoints Grünbichler Head of Group Risk Management Policy and Research

Nov 29 2004 // Zurich Financial Services announced the appointment of Andreas Grünbichler to Head its newly created Group Risk Management Policy and Research Unit, effective immediately. “In this new position, Grünbichler will...

Swiss Re Hosts Investors’ Day Conference

Nov 24 2004 // Swiss Re hosted its annual Investors’ Day at its Rüschlikon Conference Center near Zurich, yesterday, Nov. 23. The presentation offered additional insights into the Group’s risk management framework and a...