Latest Risk Management Headlines

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

More Insurers Disclosing Climate Change Risks, Report Shows

Oct 20 2016 // Insurers in the U.S. are increasingly willing to disclose their risk management practices related to climate change, and that in part may be attributable to last year’s global accord in Paris and shifting attitudes...

Lockton Expands Energy, Marine Risk Management Team in Houston

Oct 10 2016 // Lockton has named six executives in Houston to key roles in its expanding Energy and Marine risk management practice.Tim Woodard will serve as senior vice president and director of Energy and Marine. He has been with...

Jason Cohen

Oct 3 2016 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group promoted Jason M. Cohen to divisional president of Strategic Comp, succeeding Stephen Rosenthal, who will retire at the end of 2016.Cohen joined Great American in 2006...

ESIS Launches Life Sciences, Real Estate, and Staffing Industry Practices

Sep 30 2016 // ESIS, Inc., Chubb’s risk management products division, has launched three new industry practices for life sciences, real estate and hospitality, and staffing firms.According to Keith Higdon, senior vice president,...

Aspen Risk Management Enters Renewal Agreement with Liberty Specialty Markets

Sep 22 2016 // Aspen Risk Management Ltd. (ARML), the regional UK property and casualty business of Aspen Insurance, has entered into a renewal rights agreement with Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), which is part of Liberty Mutual...

CNA Appoints Chubb’s Hernandez to Commercial Risk Control Post

Sep 21 2016 // CNA has named Steve Hernandez as senior vice president, Commercial Risk Control.Hernandez succeeds Bill Boyd who announced his retirement earlier this year after 12 years of service at CNA and a 38-year career in the...

New Verisk Unit to Serve Energy Sector Insurance, Risk Management

Sep 19 2016 // Verisk Insurance Solutions has launched a new energy insurance unit focused on risk assessment, rating, and risk modeling for the oil and gas, petrochemicals, power generation, and metals and mining industries.To develop...

AIR Worldwide Expands Global Terrorism Risk Model

Sep 19 2016 // Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide has expanded the capabilities of its terrorism risk model to support scenario testing for the United States and 27 other countries to help companies assess the impact of different...

Super Typhoon Meranti Batters Taiwan: Risk Modelers AIR, RMS Assess Impact

Sep 15 2016 // Super Typhoon Meranti delivered very strong wind, high storm surge, and flooding precipitation to southern Taiwan as it passed through Luzon Strait near noon local time Wednesday.According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR...

Hanover Stone Partners Adds 3 to Midwest Risk Management Team

Sep 9 2016 // Risk management services firm Hanover Stone Partners has appointed Katherine Smith Dedrick, William M. Goddard, and David A. Seibert as senior risk advisors in the Central United States.Based in Chicago, Dedrick is an...

In Flood Risk Modeling, Resolution Matters – Even When You Think It Shouldn’t

Sep 7 2016 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.We have all seen the dramatic pictures of destruction and loss after a devastating flood event. Usually, the scene is depicted as a sea of water inundating broad areas...

EPIC adds Williford to National Energy Construction Practice in Alabama

Aug 24 2016 // EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants, a retail property, casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, has added risk management and insurance professional Jim Williford to the firm’s National...

Reinsurers’ Strong Enterprise Risk Management Key to Success – and Survival: S&P

Aug 22 2016 // The reinsurance sector’s focus on strong enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks is helping them weather the many headwinds hitting both the asset and liability sides of their balance sheets, according to a...

Hanover Stone Partners to Offer Vendor Risk Management Program for Commercial Entities

Aug 12 2016 // Hanover Stone Partners, a risk management services firm, and accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP, have partnered on a vendor risk management services to help businesses and other commercial...

Maryland-Based Schinnerer Appoints Castillo to Director of Risk Management

Aug 10 2016 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Company Inc., has hired Yvonne Castillo as the director of its risk management division. She will be based in the firm’s Chevy Chase, Md., headquarters and will report to Jill Tellaz, the...

Good Risk Management Is Just Good Business: Steel, Former CRO of AXIS Capital

Aug 5 2016 // Companies originally created the role of the chief risk officer because they “recognized that good risk management is really good business,” according to Michael Steel, former CRO at AXIS Capital.The role of...

Element Risk Management Acquires Singleton Insurance in Pennsylvania

Aug 2 2016 // West Chester, Pennsylvania-based insurance agency Element Risk Management has finalized the acquisition of Singleton Insurance in Ickesburg, Pennsylvania. Terms were not disclosed. The acquisition expands Element...

AIG’s Jones Named COO at TDC Risk Management

Jul 25 2016 // High net worth personal insurance firm TDC Risk Management (TDC), based in Maumee, Ohio, has hired Greg Jones as chief operating officer. Jones joins the closely held firm in support of its continued strong growth and...

Risk Managers Fear Cyber and Liability Risks of Autonomous Vehicles: Survey

Jul 20 2016 // Cybersecurity is the biggest concern for companies evaluating risk in the nascent self-driving vehicle industry, according to a survey conducted by Munich Re.The world’s second-biggest reinsurer found that 55 percent...

American Integrity in Florida Hires Hendrickson as SVP of Risk Management

Jul 20 2016 // American Integrity Insurance has hired Gloria Hendrickson as senior vice president of Risk Management.In her role as senior vice president of Risk Management, Hendrickson will assume responsibility for risk management...