All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2013 // Retail insurance broker, IMA Inc. has added Rob Broz as its new president in Dallas and Kathie Maley as executive vice president.Broz joined the Dallas team to lead the company’s initiatives for growth. Maley...
Sep 16 2013 // Karen Clark & Company, independent experts in catastrophe risk, catastrophe models and catastrophe risk management, issued a report, in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the Great New England Hurricane,...
Sep 11 2013 // The new World Trade Center complex is taking shape; The 4 World Trade Center, a 72-story building at the southeast corner of the site being developed by Silverstein Properties, is scheduled to be completed this November...
Aug 30 2013 // Risk Management Services (RMS) has established a group errors & omissions insurance plan for life and health insurance agents in partnership with Gotham Insurance Co. Applications must be submitted via the...
Aug 29 2013 // Farmers say they’re pleased with efforts by the federal Risk Management Agency to clarify rules for prevented planting insurance in five Upper Midwest states in 2014.The insurance pays farmers if their cropland is...
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
Aug 16 2013 // The College of Business at Colorado State University is a step closer to launching a program to train students in the insurance and risk management fields thanks to a $150,000 gift from the IMA Foundation.The Enterprise...
Aug 16 2013 // As insurance professionals, we’re in the business of anticipating and responding to severe weather. However, heightened activity in recent years points to some startling trends:• Atlantic named storms in the month...
Aug 7 2013 // EPIC, a San Mateo, Calif.-based retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant, acquired SafeHarbor Risk Management. Founded in 2009, privately-held SafeHarbor is a property/casualty...
Aug 5 2013 // Businesses paid about 5 percent more in 2012 than they did in 2011 to cover the total cost of risk.That compares to a rise of only 1.7 percent in 2011, according to the 2013 Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS)...
Aug 5 2013 // As insurance professionals, we’re in the business of anticipating and responding to severe weather. However, heightened activity in recent years points to some startling trends:Atlantic named storms in the month of...
Aug 1 2013 // XL Group named Mark McConico as vice president and underwriting manager for XL’s U.S. risk management group in Los Angeles. XL Group also promoted Theresa Schlageter to senior vice president and regional manager of...
Jul 29 2013 // Aon UK Limited, the UK arm of Aon plc, which in addition to traditional insurance activities, also provides risk management, human resource consulting and outsourcing expertise, welcomed over 60 senior risk executives from...
Jul 23 2013 // Ninety-two percent of companies believe that reputational risk is the most challenging category of risk to manage, according to a major new study from ACE Group conducted across 15 countries within its EMEA (Europe, Middle...
Jul 23 2013 // Last year’s drought has contributed to confusion over crop insurance rules for some Upper Midwest farmers who couldn’t get a crop in the ground this past spring due to the opposite weather extreme – too...
Jul 22 2013 // Louisiana has saved more than $10 million in the first two years of a privatization contract for claims processing and loss prevention services for the Office of Risk Management, auditors told lawmakers.Members of the...
Jul 18 2013 // The Travelers Companies Inc. announced the launch of the Small Business Risk Education (SBRE) program in Chicago to help women and minority small business owners learn about risk management, develop safety risk management...
Jul 18 2013 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) announced that it has told the European Commission that “any new insurance solutions for catastrophe risks should be market based and respect freedom of...
Jul 17 2013 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi today announced that Connecticut-based insurance companies will now be required to complete the annual Climate Risk Survey that was initially adopted in 2009 as a...
Jul 17 2013 // The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has expanded its healthcare industry options with an increased appetite and capabilities for the rapidly growing areas of the healthcare industry, including allied healthcare centers and...