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Mid-Market Firms Fall Short on Natural Catastrophe Risk Management: Assurex Global

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...

Florida Agents Putting New Law to Work to Attract Millennials to Insurance Careers

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...

Statistical Models for Zika Risk Management

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...

Audit Finds State Insurance Program Privatization Saved Louisiana $10M

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...

Study: Economic Costs of Pandemic in U.S. Could Be $34-45 Billion

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...

CAMICO to Offer Enhanced Coverage for CPA Firms Through New Berkley Company

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....

Texas-Based RiskPro Partners Names Davis as VP, Risk Management

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...

Startup Embroker CEO Miller Pursues ‘Massive Improvement’ Over Disruption in Commercial Insurance Brokerage

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...

Midwest Risk Management Groups, Bearence and AERO, Form Partnership

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...

ESIS Launches Healthcare Industry Risk Management Practice

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...

Hanover Stone Partners, UnitedLex to Offer Cyber Risk Management Services

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...

50% of Risk Managers Bought or Increased Cyber Insurance in Last Year: HSB

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...

Re/Insurance CEOs Join Insurance Development Forum, UN & World Bank Initiative

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...

CMS Acquires Diversified Professional Risk Managers in New York

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...

Indiana Agency Exec Named Chairman of Associated Risk Managers International

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...

EPIC’s McNeil Named to California Water JPA Risk Management Board

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...

PERILS Joins Singapore’s NatCatDAX, Aiming to Close Asia Nat Cat Protection Gap

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...

KMRD Partners Adds 2 Risk Managers in Pennsylvania

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...

RIMS 2016: Star Trek Tools, Workers Comp’s Future Help Draw Biggest Crowd in 13 Years

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...

BKS-Partners in Florida Appoints Ingram to Commercial Risk Management Group

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...