How Casualty Actuaries Help Insurers Manage Nanotech, Other Emerging Risks July 16, 2013 Casualty actuaries can help insurers meet the demand for new products by identifying, analyzing and pricing new risks, according to...
W.R. Berkley Appoints Levine VP, Chief Marketing Officer July 16, 2013 W. R. Berkley Corp. has appointed Jonathan M. Levine to the office of vice president and chief marketing officer. Levine...
BP Gulf Oil Victims Challenge Economic Damages Claim Settlements July 16, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc’s $8.2 billion settlement of most private economic-damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unfair...
Obama Administration Under Fire for Delay on Chemical Plant Safety July 16, 2013 By Mark Drajem The Obama administration’s lack of action to impose recommended changes to make refineries, chemical factories and sugar plants safer is...
Surge in Brain Trauma Among Young Athletes Spurs Call for Action July 16, 2013 By Samuel Adams A surge in sports-related brain injuries among the youth is pushing U.S. health officials to call for public policy changes...
ACE Expands Catastrophe Capacity in North America July 15, 2013 The ACE Group has increased catastrophe limits to $30 million across all its North American retail and wholesale broker-distributed commercial...
England joins Global Special Risks (GSR) as President and CEO July 15, 2013 Houston-based Global Special Risks LLC (GSR), part of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, announced that Steven J. England has joined GSR...
Reinsurance Brokers Holborn, Lehrke Merge July 15, 2013 Reinsurance brokers Holborn Corp. of New York and W.J. Lehrke Co. of Edina, Minnesota, have agreed to merge. Details were...
Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety July 15, 2013 By M.B. Pell Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the...
Total Cost of Risk Up As Market Firms: RIMS July 15, 2013 Businesses paid about five percent more in 2012 than they did in 2011 to cover the total cost of risk....