All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2010 // The world’s attention has been focused on the plumes of ash that continue to rise into the sky from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The microscopic grit in the ash cloud poses an ongoing threat to...
May 11 2010 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced that China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation, the largest reinsurer in Asia, will “license its catastrophe modeling software to support the expansion of China Re’s...
May 6 2010 // The Ohio School Plan (OSP), a group that provides insurance and risk management solutions to Ohio public school entities and boards of developmental disabilities, approved the decision to include community colleges into...
May 4 2010 // Streamlining the insurance buying and risk management process can be an attractive offer to entertainment businesses. This is especially true in a locale like San Diego, which has served as the background for such classic...
May 3 2010 // The day of the national golf tournament arrives – the weather balmy, the greens inviting, and the crowds respectfully attentive. Every golf facility manager knows, however, that beneath the smooth exterior of a...
May 3 2010 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based American Empire Surplus Lines Insurance Co. (AESLIC) has named Frederick J. Woebse president and chief operating officer. He succeeds Robert Nelson, who was named chairman and chief executive...
Apr 30 2010 // AIR Worldwide (AIR) has enhanced its catastrophe model for estimating property and business interruption losses for a wide variety of industrial facilities.“AIR conducts detailed, site-specific, engineering-based...
Apr 29 2010 // The federal government wants to save taxpayers billions of dollars by reducing spending on crop insurance after years of big profits by insurers, but the industry claims the reductions could hurt rural areas.The U.S....
Apr 27 2010 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research has awarded Valerie Clark, senior director or risk management at Quiznos with a Lance Ewing Scholarship. The scholarship is for attendance at any course offered...
Apr 27 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...
Apr 26 2010 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations has welcomed the adoption of the new European Union insurance block exemption regulation (BER) by the European Commission with reservations.“The entry into...
Apr 19 2010 // McQueary Henry Bowles Troy LLP (MHBT), recently named Fred Pecina and Jeremy Sandusky partners in the agency. Pecina is based in the firm’s Ft. Worth office, and Sandusky works in MHBT’s Dallas office.Pecina,...
Apr 15 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study.Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey, fell in...
Apr 9 2010 // Itasca, Ill.-based Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services Inc. (AJGRMS), the retail property/casualty (P/C) insurance brokerage division of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (Gallagher), has hired William Zanoni as a...
Apr 5 2010 // New York-based USI Holdings Corp. has named Sandra Usleman, former president of USI’s Austin, Texas, operating company in the Southwest region, as senior vice president and chief sales officer.Other changes in...
Apr 2 2010 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group, announced executive appointments in its large-risk division, ACE Risk Management.Lou Capparelli has been appointed senior vice president and branch...
Apr 1 2010 // A bulletin from Marsh’s London office warns that “firms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could fall foul of new corporate governance rules and corporate discipline regulations unless they adopt a more systemic...
Apr 1 2010 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) announced that it is presently conducting, “a wide-ranging, risk management benchmarking survey,” aimed at compiling data to let insurers know...
Mar 29 2010 // Travelers Construction Insurance has developed a new IndustryEdge product for tile contractors to help manage the need for additional insurance coverage and related services.The new IndustryEdge products include insurance...
Mar 25 2010 // Zurich has launched Zurich Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) HealthCheck Tool to help provide mid-size to large technology companies with a realistic check of their current ERM preparedness.ERM can help to uncover and...