All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 2 2010 // Corporate risk managers report a serious and growing disconnect between themselves and their insurance brokers and carriers. At a time when U.S. companies are enhancing internal risk management capabilities and elevating...
Aug 2 2010 // Corporate risk managers report a serious and growing disconnect between themselves and their insurance brokers and carriers. At a time when U.S. companies are enhancing internal risk management capabilities and elevating...
Jul 22 2010 // Decreases in average renewal premiums continued to show up for commercial clients during the second quarter of 2010, according to risk managers.Premium decreases of between 2.5 and 3.8 percent were reported for property,...
Jul 19 2010 // Corporate risk managers report a serious and growing disconnect between themselves and their insurance brokers and carriers: At a time when U.S. companies are enhancing internal risk management capabilities and elevating...
Jul 19 2010 // Steven D. Johnson has been named CEO of the Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet).Johnson has held staff leadership roles in five associations over the last 26 years. Most recently, he was executive director of the...
Jul 14 2010 // Corporate risk and finance managers, faced with the lingering effects of a global financial crisis, dramatically downsized staffs and reduced budgets are becoming increasingly concerned about managing those expenditures as...
Jul 6 2010 // Zurich Financial Services Group announced that its Z Zurich Foundation has signed an agreement with ETH Zürich to endow a new professorship for Risk and Insurance Economics in the field of Integrative Risk...
Jun 24 2010 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has appointed Dr. Guru Rao to the role of senior vice president, Portfolio Solutions Product Marketing. Dr. Rao brings 20 years of experience to the role, including nearly 14 years with Aon...
Jun 21 2010 // Risk management ranks relatively low on the priorities list for small business owners, according to a recent survey by Travelers. And that outlook could mean trouble down the road when problems arise for those firms, the...
Jun 9 2010 // Property repossessed by a financial institution after foreclosure may stay vacant or unfinished for months or years, making it susceptible to various types of damage. According to RealtyTrac, the leading online marketplace...
Jun 9 2010 // Global Special Risks (GSR), the wholesale insurance broker and managing general agent of Willis’ subsidiary, London-based Faber & Dumas, announced it has established an office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to...
Jun 8 2010 // Risk management ranks relatively low on the priorities list for small business owners, according to a recent survey by Travelers. And that outlook could mean trouble down the road when problems arise for those firms, the...
Jun 7 2010 // Despite the global economic crisis, the commercial insurance market is poised to remain stable through 2010, but new challenges are emerging for risk managers, according to a report issued by insurance broker Marsh.The...
Jun 1 2010 // Louisiana lawmakers have agreed to a $68 million, five-year contract to hire a Mandeville company to run much of the claims processing and management currently handled by the state’s Office of Risk Management.The...
May 26 2010 // Denver-based Intermap Technologies, a worldwide 3D digital mapping and geospatial solutions company, and the UK’s JBA Consulting, a European flood risk and environmental management firm, announced a strategic...
May 20 2010 // Despite the global economic crisis, the commercial insurance market is poised to remain stable through 2010, but new challenges are emerging for risk managers, according to a report issued by insurance broker Marsh.The...
May 19 2010 // Farmers from across the Midwest told a U.S. House committee that a crop risk management program introduced in the 2008 farm bill is a good tool but it’s way too complex.The Average Crop Revenue Election program...
May 18 2010 // “Risk Managers must try to talk about ‘the elephant in the room,’ enabling an open dialogue about business risks,” advised Swiss Re’s Chief Risk Officer, Raj Singh, as the reinsurer presented...
May 17 2010 // Global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, which has vowed to not accept contingent commissions, is urging risk managers to insist that all brokers they do business with also drop the controversial revenue...
May 14 2010 // Craig A. Payan has been elected to serve as chairman of the board of directors for Itasca, Ill.-based Associated Risk Managers International Inc.Payan is president of PA&T Insurance and Financial Services, an...