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Demotech Affirms Ratings of Midwest Public Entity Pools

Feb 17 2016 // Ohio-based Demotech Inc. recently affirmed the financial stability ratings (FSRs) assigned to six self-funded public entity pools in the Midwest.Demotech reviews and rates more than 415 insurers, writing every line of...

Penn. Intergovernmental Risk Management Association’s Rating Affirmed

Feb 16 2016 // Demotech Inc. has affirmed the “AAA” Financial Stability Rating (FSR) assigned to Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Risk Management Association (PIRMA), a self-funded public entity pool.Demotech said PIRMA is a...

Attracting, Developing Talent a Focus for Westfield Group

Feb 9 2016 // It’s anticipated that by 2020 there will be hundreds of thousands of unfilled positions in the insurance industry and that some 25 percent of those currently working in the sector will retire within the next three...

Attracting, Developing Talent Has Long Been a Focus for Westfield Group

Feb 8 2016 // It’s anticipated that by 2020 there will be hundreds of thousands of unfilled positions in the insurance industry and that some 25 percent of those currently working in the sector will retire within the next three...

Texas Governor Announces Appointments to State Risk Management Board

Feb 3 2016 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Gerald Ladner, Sr. and reappointed Rosemary Gammon for terms set to expire on Feb. 1, 2021, to the board of the State Office of Risk Management. Dr. Lloyd Garland was named as...

Supply Chains Thwart Climate Risk Management for 75 Major Companies: Report

Jan 26 2016 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and 73 other companies that together buy more than $2 trillion of goods and services are unprepared for climate shocks because suppliers are ignoring requests for data on their...

JLT Specialty USA Appoints Trinkleback as Sr. VP, Casualty Risk Control Leader

Jan 25 2016 // JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), named Robert Trinkleback as its new senior vice president, Casualty Risk Control leader at JLT’s Chicago office.Trinkleback, who most...

Willis Towers Watson Appoints Financial Institutions Leader for CEEMEA

Jan 14 2016 // Willis Towers Watson has appointed Alexander van Kuffeler as regional leader of Financial Institutions in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA).Based in London, van Kuffeler takes up the role with...

RIMS Names 2016 Leaders; Outerwall’s Pemberton Becomes President

Jan 8 2016 // RIMS, the risk management society, announced that Julie Pemberton will lead the group as president for the 2016 term.Pemberton is the director of Enterprise Risk and Insurance Management for Outerwall Inc. She has been a...

QBE North America Names AIG’s Davide as Senior VP for Risk Management

Jan 5 2016 // QBE North America said announced that Joseph Davide has joined the organization as senior vice president, Risk Management, QBE’s large risk business in North America. This business is part of QBE’s Standard...

McKee Risk Management Hires Prinz as Social Services VP in Penn.

Dec 18 2015 // Lisa Prinz McKee Risk Management Inc. in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has hired Lisa Prinz as vice president of the Social Services Practice. Prinz was previously at Harleysville/Nationwide Insurance where she started...

Wells Fargo Insurance Reports Hiring Spree

Dec 18 2015 // Wells Fargo Insurance said it has hired more than 100 professionals in recent months as it seeks to grow and improve customer service.“Continuing to invest in talent is critical to the success of our business and...

British Insurers Adjust Risk Models after Costly Repeat of 100-Year Floods

Dec 7 2015 // British insurers could have to pay out up to £250 million ($377 million) in claims to owners of homes and businesses, industry specialists said on Monday, after the northwest of England suffered once-in-a-century floods...

Cyber Security: Insurance as an Essential Part of Risk Management

Dec 7 2015 // The cost and frequency of cyber-related security threats are on the rise. Some estimates claim that one-in-six businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year while the cost of cyber attacks on global...

UT Dallas Recruits Industry Execs for Risk, Insurance Advisory Group

Nov 18 2015 // Debra Richardson, director of a new University of Texas at Dallas concentration in risk management and insurance (RMI), plans to have students in that area equipped to fill some of 400,000 industry vacancies anticipated by...

Gender Gap Closing

Nov 16 2015 // Male risk managers in higher education are paid more on average than their female counterparts but the gap is closing as women gain experience in the field, according to a survey on risk manager compensation.Male risk...

Gender Gap in Risk Manager Compensation Closing: Survey

Nov 9 2015 // Male risk managers in higher education are paid more on average than their female counterparts but the gap is closing as women gain experience in the field, according to a survey on risk manager compensation.Male risk...

Group Enhances Online Training for Employment Practices Risk Management

Oct 27 2015 // The Employment Practices Risk Management Association (EPRMA), based in Chicago, has enhanced its website (www.eprma.org), with three new employment practices training courses designed to help employers train senior staff...

Indiana’s Butler University Creating Student-Run Insurer

Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...

Hostile Environment Liability Protection Program Adds Intelligence Panel

Oct 13 2015 // The Hostile Environment Liability Protection (HELP) program, a risk mitigation, crisis response and insurance program designed to guide and protect operations in hostile or complex environments, has added a new...