All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2008 // Itasca, Illinois-based Associated Risk Managers is implementing expansion efforts across the Southeast, beginning with Florida.According to ARM Chairman, Larry McSpadden, ARM members Lewis Maddux and Danny Gleason teamed...
Sep 9 2008 // XL Capital announced that it has appointed Jacob D. Rosengarten as Executive Vice President and Chief Enterprise Risk Officer of the XL group of companies. He is currently a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, and will...
Sep 9 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has published two reports, coinciding with the Reinsurance Rendezvous in Monte Carlo, which examine the reinsurance industry’s progress in implementing risk management...
Sep 8 2008 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Group, has launched a global crisis risk management initiative that introduces new products such as kidnap, ransom and extortion; contaminated products; and...
Sep 5 2008 // A catastrophic risk management company says private insurers could face damages from Hurricane Gustav between $4 billion and $10 billion. Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions said on September 2 that the...
Sep 2 2008 // Venture Insurance Programs, launched the SuiteLife program, an all-lines insurance solution for resort properties.SuiteLife combines Venture’s Preferred Club Program – one the industry’s largest programs...
Sep 1 2008 // With such events as wildfires, the subprime mortgage fallout, and mergers and acquisitions, the corporate world can at times seem like a jungle. No one knows that better than author Gert Cruywagen, whose book,...
Sep 1 2008 // Community Financial Insurance Center, Monroe, La., hired Jeanette F. Credo as senior vice president for its new Financial Institutions Division for the states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.Credo will establish and...
Sep 1 2008 // With such events as wildfires, the subprime mortgage fallout, and mergers and acquisitions, the corporate world can at times seem like a jungle. No one knows that better than author Gert Cruywagen, whose book,...
Sep 1 2008 // If you’re like most insurance firms, your workforce is aging. Or, as a friend of mine recently put it, “There’s a lot of gray hair in the room.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but...
Aug 28 2008 // For the golf industry, 2008 business is at best a bogey — probably worse. And for the agents, carriers and program managers who cater to the golf and country club world, that’s made for a rough market,...
Aug 21 2008 // The complexity of the cat insurance market can make it difficult to keep pace with the coverage options.In the midst of hurricane season, insurance agents and brokers are reminded of the need for forward-thinking solutions...
Aug 21 2008 // ‘Never walk out of a meeting with out introducing RIOS. Get to insurance later.’Scott Addis, ‘Purple Cow Leadership Workshop.’ Photo: Brian Ruark, IIAT. Scott Addis presents his ‘Purple...
Aug 21 2008 // The complexity of the cat insurance market can make it difficult to keep pace with the coverage options.In the midst of hurricane season, insurance agents and brokers are reminded of the need for forward-thinking solutions...
Aug 21 2008 // Scott Addis’ biggest pet peeve is the way consumers perceive insurance agents. After an unpleasant encounter with a stranger at a cocktail party, who upon learning that Addis was an insurance broker rather than a...
Aug 21 2008 // The complexity of the cat insurance market can make it difficult to keep pace with the coverage options.The savvy wholesale broker keeps tabs on which surplus lines insurers have the appropriate capacity for In the midst...
Aug 19 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Fay took an eastward turn sooner than expected and made landfall at Cape Romano, Florida, on Aug. 19 at around 5 a.m. EDT.“Landfall was along...
Aug 15 2008 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corporation has announced the release of updates to its CATRADER®, CLASIC/2™ and CATStation® catastrophe risk management systems.“The version 10.0 releases include a number...
Aug 14 2008 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) launched new Winterstorm and Severe Convective Storm Models to enhance its suite of catastrophe risk models for the U.S. and Canada. Built to satisfy the needs of both...
Aug 8 2008 // UK Flood Model Risk Management Solutions has released a major new upgrade to its U.K. Inland Flood Model. “The upgraded model will enable all segments of the insurance industry to drill down to a finer level of...