All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2009 // In a report released today, The Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. (RIMS) is calling for complete disclosure of revenue streams from placing insurance products.The push for transparency outlined in the report is...
Oct 6 2009 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations convened its bi-annual conference in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, on Monday, welcoming some 1100 attendees, and two new members.Newly installed...
Oct 5 2009 // Jim Newberry, assistant vice president and risk control manager of Island Insurance in Honolulu, has received the Risk Management/Insurance Practice Specialty Safety Professional of the Year Award. The award is from the...
Sep 28 2009 // Aon’s Global Risk Management Survey 2009 has found that “environmental risk ranked lower as a concern in Europe than any other region – despite the introduction of the EU Environmental Liability Directive...
Sep 16 2009 // Philadelphia-based ACE USA has appointed Keith Mattheessen as senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of the ACE Risk Management Energy Underwriting Unit.This new unit within ACE Risk Management provides a...
Sep 11 2009 // Jim Newberry, assistant vice president and risk control manager of Island Insurance in Honolulu, has received the Risk Management/Insurance Practice Specialty Safety Professional of the Year Award.The award is from the...
Sep 7 2009 // Texas-based Specialty Insurance Managers Inc. appointed several new vice presidents.Karen Ashton was named vice president of the Arlington, Texas, branch. Bonnie Stalkfleet is now vice president of the Granbury branch....
Aug 28 2009 // New research by Marsh has found that senior executives at Europe’s leading retail and consumer brands businesses will be concerned by risks such as cash flow, credit risk and trade credit over the next 18 months.An...
Aug 24 2009 // Jorge Luzzi, Worldwide Director of the Risk Management Department for the Italian based industrial group Pirelli, has been appointed as a member of the board of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations...
Aug 17 2009 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has issued a bulletin expressing concerns over a new ruling in the US state of Illinois that allows brokers to resume taking contingent commissions.The...
Aug 12 2009 // Some automobile shoppers may be abandoning car makers but insurance carriers and brokers remain dedicated partners, experts say.Yet no one can deny that tough times have fallen on many of the nation’s car dealers who...
Aug 6 2009 // Dallas-based insurance and risk management services firm Apex Global Partners (AGP) has appointed John Stone as managing director of its Houston Aviation Operations.Stone, a pilot, is experienced in structuring insurance...
Aug 6 2009 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has unveiled its next-generation models for North America earthquake risks, covering the United States and Alaska, Canada and Mexico. The new models are likely to lead...
Aug 4 2009 // Grant Foster has been appointed head of enterprise risk management (ERM) at insurance broker Aon.Foster was recently a key member of the team that won a 2009 British Insurance Award for Risk Management for Aon’s Risk...
Aug 4 2009 // The Certified Risk Managers (CRM) International Program in México has a new home on the Web: www.crm-international.org. CRM en Espanol was first introduced in México by The National Alliance for Insurance Education...
Jul 29 2009 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. reported a slight drop in organic revenue of just 0.3 percent for the second quarter 2009 for its combined insurance brokerage and risk management units.For the quarter ending June 30, 2009,...
Jul 20 2009 // A new report by Marsh has found that some UK real estate firms are failing to address the strategic risks facing their organizations, leaving them more vulnerable to the vagaries of market conditions and in a weaker...
Jul 13 2009 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance holding company Validus Holdings Ltd. to positive from stable, and has affirmed its ‘BBB-‘...
Jul 6 2009 // Automobile shoppers may be abandoning car makers but insurance carriers and brokers remain dedicated partners, experts say.Yet no one can deny that tough times have fallen on many of the nation’s car dealers who seem...
Jul 6 2009 // Michael Jackson’s untimely death, barely two weeks before he was to begin a long awaited series of 50 concerts stretching over eight months, has been the world’s top story. It’s also a story in London,...