All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 7 2009 // Risk Management Solutions has completed the expert modeling analysis in connection with the securities offering undertaken by Ibis Re Ltd., a special purpose reinsurance company domiciled in the Cayman Islands.“The...
May 6 2009 // AIR Worldwide announced that it has integrated catastrophe modeling with risk management and reinsurance underwriting systems for AXIS, a Bermuda-based global provider of specialty lines insurance and treaty...
May 4 2009 // Insurance premiums for businesses continued to slide towards a “soft landing” rather than an abrupt reversal resulting in rate increases, according to risk managers.While banks and other financial institutions...
Apr 28 2009 // Aon has issued a bulletin analyzing the current outbreak of swine flu. Alex Hindson, head of enterprise risk management at Aon Global Risk Consulting, stated: “Health risks are unpredictable but given the possibility...
Apr 21 2009 // Insurance premiums for businesses continued to slide towards a “soft landing” rather than an abrupt reversal resulting in rate increases, according to risk managers.While banks and other financial institutions...
Apr 7 2009 // Boston’s AIR Worldwide Corporation announced that it has provided risk modeling and analytical services for more than 10 billion dollars in insurance-linked securities since 1996 and over 56 percent of total...
Apr 6 2009 // Higginbotham & Associates, an independent insurance brokerage firm based in Ft. Worth, Texas, added employee benefits brokers John Collins, Dana Jones and Rob Marsh to its managing director team for 2009, in...
Apr 6 2009 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRanking No.: 14 Agency Name: Bollinger Insurance Inc. Headquarters: Short Hills, N.J. Year Founded: 1933 Additional Locations: Princeton, Moorestown, Vineland, N.J.; New York City, N.Y.; Philadelphia,...
Mar 23 2009 // Planning for the “upside” must begin now. The soft insurance market will end, and the rebound from the financial bottom will happen. But don’t try to predict when, just get out in front and plan for...
Mar 23 2009 // Kate Westover, vice president of Alternative Risk Financing at Innovative Captive Strategies, has received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA). Based in Colchester,...
Mar 23 2009 // Risk Management Solutions has appointed Philippe Stephan chief technology officer (CTO).Stephan has more than 20 years’ experience in software development and will apply his technology and leadership skills to the...
Mar 12 2009 // Arkansas-based independent insurance agency Stephens Insurance LLC has added eight insurance professionals to its commercial insurance services team in Little Rock. The eight-member team hails from Regions Insurance in...
Mar 11 2009 // While the increase in older workers in the American workforce could suggest a corresponding decrease in workplace productivity and increase in accident claims, the opposite has proven to be true, says a risk management...
Mar 5 2009 // Independent insurance brokerage firm and Assurex Global partner, Dallas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), appointed Douglas R. Jones as a vice president and principal.Jones, who specializes in insurance...
Mar 3 2009 // Marsh has launched a report highlighting the key risks companies face as the global economy slows and advice about how to tackle them. Entitled “Managing Through the Downturn,” the report highlights issues...
Mar 3 2009 // Aon Global Risk Consulting has appointed Graham Heath as director of Risk Control UK. In this role, Graham will help UK corporate clients to improve their business performance through effective management of their...
Feb 25 2009 // The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved a proposal by the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) to offer a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Insurance and Risk Management.The new degree...
Feb 22 2009 // To many, the insurance world seems to operate on its own theory of physics. And to the hundreds of high-powered industry execs who gathered on the third floor of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York earlier this year, there is...
Feb 19 2009 // Sterling Grant & Associates has hired Timothy Zehring to the new position of risk manager in Phoenix. Zehring, a former Mesa, Ariz., police officer and founder of the International Crime Free Association, is...
Feb 19 2009 // To many, the insurance world seems to operate on its own theory of physics. And to the hundreds of high-powered industry execs who gathered on the third floor of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York earlier this year, there is...