All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2009 // Contractors with a sharp eye for their bottom line are smart to place a premium on safety. Insurance agents and brokers tend to know a construction business that avoids injuries is not only applying safe building...
Jul 1 2009 // Atlanta-based commercial insurance brokerage and consulting firm Beecher Carlson has appointed Kevin Grady as managing director based in its Nashville, Tenn., office.Grady, who has 20 years of experience in analytics, will...
Jun 29 2009 // An in-depth study by more than 150 experts commissioned by the Army Corps of Engineers to look into the catastrophic failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina is done, though the report released June 26 divulged...
Jun 25 2009 // A new report from Marsh concludes that the senior management at “85 percent of Europe’s leading communications, media and technology (CMT) companies have indicated they are placing increased importance on risk...
Jun 23 2009 // Houston-based insurance agency Bowen, Miclette & Britt has named Dan Persha as director of Environmental Risk Management.With 30 years of commercial insurance brokerage experience, Persha specializes in heavy...
Jun 19 2009 // Despite the economic turmoil and the second worst year for insured natural catastrophe losses, the total cost of risk paid by businesses dropped in 2008 by 9.4 percent per $1,000 of revenue.The drop was largely...
Jun 17 2009 // Marsh’s UK office has issued a report – Manufacturing Industry Risk Footprint – which urges UK manufacturers to “put robust and flexible risk management systems in place to identify, mitigate and...
Jun 17 2009 // In a recent speech to UK risk managers at the Association of Insurance and Risk Manager’s (AIRMIC) conference in Bournemouth, Andrew Tunnicliffe, COO of Aon Global Risk Consulting, called upon the insurance industry...
Jun 17 2009 // Massachusetts-based benefits firm The Bostonian Group has formed a property/casualty risk management practice group called Bostonian Solutions Property & Casualty.The firm said its risk management practice will...
Jun 12 2009 // The current financial crisis did not result from a failure of enterprise risk management (ERM), but a failure to implement ERM processes, according to actuaries.According to Parr Schoolman, senior vice president for Aon...
Jun 12 2009 // Peter den Dekker, corporate insurance risk manager at Dutch multi-national Stork, has been elected President of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA). He takes over from Marie-Gemma Dequae, whose...
Jun 11 2009 // A survey, conducted by Marsh and the independent research group Ipsos, has concluded that almost all European financial institutions have reviewed their approach to risk since the onset of the global financial crisis,...
Jun 10 2009 // Massachusetts-based medical liability insurance company Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co., known as ProMutual, will acquire medical liability insurer and risk management company FinCor and its...
Jun 9 2009 // Keystone Insurers Group has purchased an equity interest in East Coast Risk Management as part of a deal that will provide the group’s franchised locations with an expanded suite of services.Northumberland,...
Jun 8 2009 // “Financial institutions did not empower their risk management functions enough to curb the activities of risk takers which played a major role in the near collapse of the international financial system in...
Jun 1 2009 // TD Insurance Inc. has hired Linda Bogardus as an account manager in the Core Division of Commercial Lines. Bogardus, who is based in Burlington, Vermont, will oversee marketing and servicing large commercial insurance...
May 29 2009 // Marsh announced the appointment of Matt Kimber as its Chief Risk Officer in the UK. He joins Marsh from Lloyds Banking Group where he held a variety of executive, operational and risk management positions.“Most...
May 28 2009 // Against the background of the impending Atlantic Hurricane Season, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) has released a briefing document outlining the role of risk management in the region’s...
May 20 2009 // AIU Holdings has introduced ReBuild, a suite of insurance and risk management products for states and municipalities receiving federal stimulus monies from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds for use...
May 8 2009 // The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering changing a formula that critics say often allows public companies to low-ball in regulatory filings just how much top executives are paid.At issue is how companies...