All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 18 2016 // Middle market businesses in all parts of the world view their exposures to natural catastrophes as increasing but some fall short when managing these risks effectively, according to a new survey of senior executives at...
Jul 11 2016 // Florida insurance agents are trying to bolster the industry’s track record in attracting college graduates by employing a new state law that aligns college courses with the state’s licensing requirements.The...
Jul 11 2016 // The Pan American Health Organization first confirmed Zika virus infections in Brazil in May 2015. It took nine months for the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare an international public health emergency. It was then...
Jun 29 2016 // Former Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of claims processing and loss prevention services for Louisiana’s self-insurance program saved the state money, though less than projected, according to an audit...
Jun 29 2016 // A pandemic influenza outbreak in the United States could have economic costs nearly double the total amounts experts have previously calculated, depending on how the public, government and businesses respond to an...
Jun 17 2016 // CAMICO, a CPA-directed program of insurance and risk management for the accounting profession, and Berkley Alliance Managers (BAM), a W. R. Berkley Company, have announced new insurance policies with enhanced coverage....
Jun 16 2016 // RiskPro Partners, a privately held insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Dallas, has hired Julie Davis as vice president, Risk Management Services, in RiskPro Partner’s Austin office.Davis joins RiskPro Partners...
Jun 15 2016 // Within venture capital circles, the insurance industry is sexy right now. It seems not a week goes by without another startup being announced, some with niche angles such as peer-to-peer distribution, insurance for...
Jun 1 2016 // Bearence Management Group, based in Des Moines, Iowa, and AERO Risk Management, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., have formed a strategic partnership to provide clients of both firms with access to expanded risk...
May 26 2016 // ESIS, Inc., Chubb’s risk management services division, has launched a new industry practice dedicated to serving the claims and risk management needs of healthcare organizations and life sciences firms. The ESIS...
May 20 2016 // Hanover Stone Partners, a risk management services firm, and UnitedLex, a business advisory company, have collaborated on cyber-security, legal services and other risk management options for businesses and other commercial...
May 18 2016 // Fifty percent of U.S. businesses have either purchased cyber insurance for the first time or increased their level of coverage in the last year, according to a survey of risk managers by The Hartford Steam Boiler...
May 17 2016 // A group of re/insurance and global broking CEOs are assisting the work of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which was launched last month to help build resilience to climate risk and natural disasters, while bridging...
May 10 2016 // CMS LLC, an insurance wholesaler based in Melville, New York, announced that it has acquired Diversified Professional Risk Managers in Rockville Centre, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in...
May 3 2016 // Independent insurance agency network, Associated Risk Managers International Inc. (ARMI), have elected Greg Easley to serve as chairman of the ARMI board of directors.Easley currently serves as vice president and corporate...
Apr 28 2016 // David McNeil, a principal in the EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants’ Inland Empire division, has been appointed to the advisory board of the California Association of Mutual Water Companies Joint Powers Risk and...
Apr 28 2016 // PERILS, the Zurich-based independent organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced it has joined the Singapore-based Natural Catastrophe Data and Analytics Exchange (NatCatDAX) Alliance, which...
Apr 25 2016 // John Garber KMRD Partners, an insurance brokerage and risk management services firm based in Warrington, Pennsylvania, has hired John Garber and Karl Granlun as risk managers. Garber’s role as risk manager, Client...
Apr 15 2016 // Workers’ compensation, geopolitical risks, recalls, disaster response, the captive industry and cyber security were among the topics of sessions held throughout the final day of the annual RIMS conference for risk...
Apr 15 2016 // Florida-Based Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), has appointed Amy Ingram as managing director of the Commercial Risk Management Group. She will be based in company’s Tampa office.Ingram joins...