Latest Risk Management Headlines

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

Underwriters and Insureds Taking Harder Look at Commercial Property Risks

Dec 24 2019 // Commercial property underwriters are adjusting to a market defined by rising catastrophe losses and dwindling profits. From increasing rates and higher deductibles to fewer classes of business and stricter underwriting,...

AXA XL, Slice Labs, Microsoft to Offer Cyber Risk Management Tools

Dec 23 2019 // AXA XL, the p&c and Specialty Risk Division of global insurer AXA, Slice Labs Inc. (Slice), an on-demand insurer of cloud technology, and Microsoft will work together to help improve cyber health and mitigate risks for...

A Few Holiday Risk Management Tips

Dec 18 2019 // This is a note to wish you a Happy Holidays. Before you think I’m backing away from my own personal love for and celebration of Christmas, let me list a few holidays (according to holidayinsights.com) that I hope...

Cannabis Risk Management Group Plans to Offer Insurance Program

Dec 17 2019 // A national group offering risk management advice to the cannabis industry says it is creating a casualty insurance program to provide its members with insurance.The National Cannabis Risk Management Association (NCRMA)...

Worldwide Facilities Acquires Risk Management Advisory Group of Florida

Dec 6 2019 // Worldwide Facilities, LLC, a national wholesale insurance brokerage, managing general agency and program manager, has acquired Risk Management Advisory Group (RMAG), a managing wholesale broker based in Miami Lakes, Fla.,...

Michigan State, AF Group Partner on Master’s Certificate in Quantitative Risk Analytics

Dec 2 2019 // Lansing, Mich.-based AF Group and Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Statistics and Probability have teamed up to offer a master’s-level certificate in Quantitative Risk Analytics exclusively to AF Group...

Thanksgiving Risk Management Alert: Don’t Wash That Turkey!

Nov 27 2019 // Go ahead and rinse your cranberries, potatoes and green beans. But food say experts say don’t — repeat don’t — wash the turkey before popping it in the oven on Thanksgiving Day.They say that could spread...

Financial Institutions Offering from Hanover Targets Asset Managers, Depositories

Nov 18 2019 // The Hanover Insurance Group has launched Hanover Financial Institutions Advantage, a new offering that provides small to mid-sized asset managers and depository institutions with coordinated property, casualty, management...

How to Bring in Young People to Insurance

Nov 18 2019 // The workforce is faced with a generation gap. Baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day. Generation X and millennials each have a smaller pool of people than baby boomers. Generation Z is now the largest...

Introducing School of Risk Management and Insurance at Cal State University Fullerton

Nov 13 2019 // What’s in a name?In one case, a new name – one with all the sex appeal that “insurance” can add to a title – has people like Framroze Virjee, president of California State University Fullerton,...

PURE Programs Launches California High Wildfire Risk Homeowners Program

Nov 13 2019 // PURE Programs has launched a new High Wildfire Risk Homeowners Insurance program, with coverages for retail insurance brokers serving clients that own high value homes in California at greater-risk of loss from...

Element Risk Management Acquires Three Insurance Agencies in Virginia, Pennsylvania

Nov 8 2019 // Element Risk Management has acquired three new insurance agencies in Virginia and Pennsylvania.Barnes & Phillips Insurance & Financial Services of Woodstock, Va., Crawford Insurance Company of Strasburg, Va., and...

Companies That Are Open About Cyber Risks Fare Better With Investors

Nov 8 2019 // Research finds that when one company experiences a cybersecurity breach, other companies in the same field also become less attractive to investors. However, companies that are open about their cybersecurity risk...

San Antonio’s Spire Risk Management Acquires Employee Benefit Services

Nov 5 2019 // LP Buddy Morris has launched Spire Risk Management (SRM), a full-service insurance consulting firm specializing in employee benefits, property/casualty and retirement planning, in San Antonio, Texas.Morris said the plan is...

Markel Adds Cybersecurity Risk Management Tool to Cyber Products

Oct 30 2019 // Markel has launched a risk management tool for its cyber policyholders. The new WhiteHaX testing and reporting tool simulates cybersecurity breaches and assesses the readiness of deployed security infrastructure and...

Risk Strategies Acquires Pennsylvania’s Dash & Love

Oct 30 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Dash & Love Inc., a full-service specialty brokerage based just outside of Philadelphia. Terms of the deal were not...

Risk Strategies to Offer Cyber Risk Management Platform Underwritten by Berkley

Oct 23 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has launched the Cyber Resolute offering that combines new technology with smarter processes and specialized coverage.Cyber Resolute...

How Risk Management is Transforming Risk in Commercial Property

Oct 21 2019 // Commercial property underwriters are adjusting to a market defined by rising catastrophe losses and dwindling profits. From increasing rates and higher deductibles to fewer classes of business and stricter underwriting,...

The National Alliance to Livestream New Panel at 50th Anniversary MEGA Seminar

Oct 18 2019 // Austin, TX, October 18, 2019 – The National Alliance announced an opportunity for dues-paid designees and the general public to hear from Florida State University President, John Thrasher, principals from family-owned...

Insurance Office of America Adds Moser to Southwest Florida Team

Oct 15 2019 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) is has added Charity A. Moser to its growing team in Southwest Florida. She joins the new Bonita Springs branch location as a risk management consultant. Moser is a licensed Florida...