All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2018 // “Cool. Sexy. Rewarding. Fascinating. Flexible. Better than ESPN.”That’s not some googley-eyed entrepreneurial hotshots talking about the latest insurtech. That’s young brokers talking about the...
Nov 15 2018 // JBA Risk Management (JBA), the UK-based modeling firm, has launched an India crop catastrophe model for the re/insurance market.More commonly known for flood maps and models, JBA collaborated with Chaucer through its...
Nov 5 2018 // Workers’ compensation provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., is partnering with The University of Texas at Dallas’ (UT Dallas) Naveen Jindal School of Management for a brand-new Risk Control and Safety...
Nov 5 2018 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has made three additions to its Construction Services Group headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga.Danielle Maxey has joined as account executive. In...
Oct 23 2018 // Lockton has added Tom Byrne as a risk management and employee benefits consultant. Byrne is based in the San Francisco, Calif. office. He has more than 16 years of experience in the industry. Byrne worked as a client...
Oct 22 2018 // While there are some issues with the data, virtually every report shows the cyber insurance market growing. Aon Benfield had it growing 37 percent last year to $1.8 billion. It’s profitable and the loss ratio is in...
Oct 19 2018 // Flood specialist JBA Risk Management has rolled out its high-resolution flood maps and associated pricing data for the continental United States starting with the State of Florida. These new maps are designed to enable...
Oct 19 2018 // Everest Insurance said that Christopher McKeon, currently vice president and head of Commercial Casualty, will add leadership responsibility for the Risk Management business unit, which focuses on customized primary...
Oct 18 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Ten years ago, CoreLogic® (at the time, EQECAT) introduced the use of global Atmosphere-Ocean-General-Circulation Models (AOGCM) for insurance-oriented assessments of...
Oct 15 2018 // Frenkel Benefits, an EPIC Company, has hired Nicholas Tunno as a principal in New York.Tunno will report to Phil Remig, Northeast region senior vice president of Operations and Sales. Tunno joins from the New York office...
Oct 5 2018 // KOVRR, a provider of predictive modeling for cyber insurance, announced a silent and affirmative cyber risk product.The new product enables insurance and reinsurance carriers to identify uncalculated capital at risk and...
Oct 2 2018 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance and Risk has hired Shari Smith as commercial lines account manager.Smith will be responsible for the ongoing management of commercial clients, retaining new and renewal clients,...
Oct 2 2018 // Sompo International, a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced it has launched a Global Risk Control Services function within its insurance business.Under the...
Oct 1 2018 // San Francisco, Calif.-based Paladin Cyber has named Josh Riley head of insurance.He will lead efforts to develop solutions that combine risk management services with risk transfer to help clients manage complex...
Sep 28 2018 // Everest Insurance announced that Mike Karmilowicz has been promoted to president of Everest Specialty Underwriters and Dave Sandler has been promoted to president of its Risk Management Group. Karmilowicz joined Everest...
Sep 21 2018 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), an insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has partnered with Montoya & Associates of Jacksonville, Fla. The partnership finalized on...
Sep 18 2018 // The Austin-based insurance education organization the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has appointed William J. Hold as chief executive officer. He will assume the day-to-day leadership of the...
Sep 17 2018 // Sandy, Utah-based WCF Insurance has appointed Kathryn Clark as senior vice president of safety and health. Clark will also take on the title and duties of WCF’s chief risk officer as of Jan. 1, 2019.Patrick Harris...
Aug 29 2018 // Why do people buy insurance? I’ll take a hand. Better yet, just shout out your answers.I just imagined someone sitting in a cubicle suddenly shouting, “It’s the law,” and that thought makes me laugh...
Aug 22 2018 // Global insurance broker Marsh has appointed Andrew Hickman as global head of Data Science within its broader Digital, Data and Analytics Practice. In this newly-created role, Hickman is responsible for advancing...