Latest Risk Management Headlines

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National Alliance to Intro CRM Courses at WRIA Conference

Dec 29 2003 // The Austin, Texas-based National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research plans to introduce the Certified Risk Managers International courses to university and college representatives at the Western Risk and...

A.J. Gallagher Increases Stake in Wyatt Gallagher Bassett

Dec 24 2003 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, headquartered in Itasca, Ill., announced that its subsidiary, Gallagher Bassett Services Inc., acquired the remaining...

ACE Risk Management’s WC Unit Enters Texas Non-Subscriber Market

Dec 18 2003 // ACE Risk Management (ARM), a division of ACE USA, announced the launch of a new product for Texas employers who have opted not to provide workers’ compensation insurance to their employees under the state...

AIR’s CATStation Now Available to Risk Managers

Dec 2 2003 // Risk modeler AIR Worldwide Corp. announced it is making its CATStation product available to the corporate risk management market. CATStation, first released to insurers in July, is a browser-based tool that incorporates...

ACE Risk Management Appoints Apriceno as Senior VP and Director of Field Operations

Nov 25 2003 // ACE Risk Management (ARM), a division of ACE USA, announced the appointment of Tony Apriceno as senior vice president and director of Field Operations. Apriceno will have overall responsibility for overseeing the Central...

IWIF Forms New Risk Management Division, Lighthouse Risk Solutions

Nov 24 2003 // The Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund (IWIF) announced the creation of a new division, Lighthouse Risk Solutions. The risk management division will focus on the growing risk management needs of medium to large...

Crawford & Co. Names New Executive VP for Risk Management Services

Nov 21 2003 // Atlanta-based Crawford & Company announced that Annette Sanchez has been named executive vice president of Risk Management Services (RMS), effective immediately. Sanchez joined Crawford in early 2003 as vice president...

ACE USA Appoints Riegler to Lead ACE Risk Management’s Excess Workers’ Comp Unit

Nov 20 2003 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group of Companies, announced the appointment of Ken Riegler, senior vice president, to lead the National Excess Workers’ Compensation unit for ACE Risk Management...

American Re Closes Sale of Becher + Carlson Risk Management Unit

Nov 18 2003 // American Re Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Munich American Global Services, Inc., closed the sale on Friday, November 14, 2003 of its subsidiary, Becher + Carlson Risk Management, Inc., the holding company for the...

ABD Forms Risk Management Solutions Unit

Nov 14 2003 // Redwood City, Calif.-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, has announced the establishment of its Applied Risk Management Solutions (ARMS) Group....

IIAD’s All Industry Day to Feature Town Hall Meeting on Terrorism

Nov 12 2003 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas announced it will hold the annual All Industry Day on Nov. 25. The event, “Confronting Terrorism, Not If, But When,” is sponsored by state and local insurance...

RMS Expands Capability of Weather Risk Management Model

Nov 3 2003 // Newark Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions, a leading provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, and Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) announced two additions to the Climetrix™...

FERMA Conference Highlights Risk Management Concerns

Nov 3 2003 // The second ever bi-annual conference of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA), held Oct. 5 – 8 in Rome, Italy, featured presenters and workshops that highlighted both the similarities and...

FERMA Conference Highlights Risk Management Concerns

Nov 3 2003 // The second ever bi-annual conference of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA), held Oct. 5 – 8 in Rome, Italy, featured presenters and workshops that highlighted both the similarities and...

Assurex Global Forms Captive Reinsurer

Oct 22 2003 // Assurex Global, the Columbus, Ohio-based risk management and commercial insurance brokerage group, announced the formation of Assurex Global Reinsurance, Ltd., a captive insurance company, located in Bermuda, which it has...

American Re to Sell Becher + Carlson Risk Management

Oct 21 2003 // American Re Corporation announced that its subsidiary, Munich American Global Services, Inc., has entered into an agreement for the sale of its subsidiary, Becher + Carlson Risk Management, Inc., the holding company for...

Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary

Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...

Insurance Journal 80th Anniversary

Oct 20 2003 // One-on-One with Mark Wells, Publisher of the Insurance Journal By Charles E. Boyle Despite his still somewhat boyish appearance, Mark Wells has been the publisher of the Insurance Journal for 33 years, a long time in any...

W.R. Berkley Appoints Gosselink as Senior VP – Risk Management

Oct 17 2003 // W. R. Berkley Corporation announced the appointment of Robert Gosselink as senior vice president – Insurance Risk Management. His principal duties will relate to the Berkley group’s overall insurance risk and...

The National Alliance Names Director of Academy and CRM Program

Oct 10 2003 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, based in Austin, Texas, announced the appointment of James Wm. Kallman, Ph.D., as executive vice president and director of The Academy of Producer Insurance...