All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2008 // Risk Management Solutions announced that a $200 million Multi-Peril Securitization has become the first catastrophe bond issued using RMS Paradex Europe WiNdstorm index for risk analysis.RMS said it has “performed...
Aug 4 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 CPA...
Aug 4 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, mind...
Aug 4 2008 // Top 100 Agency ProfileRanking: No. 8 Insurance Office of AmericaHeadquarters: Longwood, Fla. Year Founded: 1988 Additional Locations: 22 branch offices 2007 Total P/C Premium Volume: $662.5 million 2007 Other Than P/C...
Aug 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, mind...
Aug 1 2008 // Encino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has expanded its HR risk management capabilities by partnering with HReSource to provide new and expanded HR risk management support and services with the purchase or renewal of...
Jul 31 2008 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced the asset acquisition of Great Lakes Risk Management Inc., of Toledo, Ohio, by a subsidiary of Brown & Brown. Great Lakes Risk Management, with annual revenues of approximately $1...
Jul 30 2008 // Helen Stuart has joined Dallas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton (RHSB), an independent brokerage firm with offices in Dallas and Fort Worth, as a senior account manager in its Risk Management division. With a...
Jul 28 2008 // HM Risk Group LLC, a full-service, woman-owned, independent insurance firm providing dedicated brokerage, risk management and consulting services to commercial clients on a global basis, announced the opening of its office...
Jul 25 2008 // York Insurance Services Group, Inc. invests in Gregory B. Bragg & Associates, Inc. creating leading public entity insurance services provider in U.S.PARSIPPANY, N.J., (July 25, 2008) – York Insurance Services...
Jul 23 2008 // Alliant Emerging Markets announced the expansion of its risk analytics and advisory services by launching a source of political and economic risk indices and ratings available to banks, investments banks, private equity,...
Jul 21 2008 // In the midst of hurricane season, insurance agents and brokers are reminded of the need for forward-thinking solutions that will help them obtain the best-possible catastrophe coverage for their clients.Following the 2005...
Jul 18 2008 // The Association of Insurance and Risk Management Experts of the Czech Republic (ASPARCR) has been accepted as a member of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA).This brings to a total of 16 the...
Jul 10 2008 // Roanoake, Virginia-based risk management and insurance brokerage firm, Thomas Rutherfoord Inc., announced that Craig Perry, vice president, will assume new duties in the Atlanta office as focal point for the development of...
Jul 8 2008 // Sustainability risks are one of the most critical emerging risk areas of the 21st century and actuaries will need to develop mitigation and financing strategies for handling them.“Sustainability risks are going to...
Jul 7 2008 // Richmond, Va.-based insurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. promoted F. Michael Crowley to president and chief operating officer.As president, Crowley has been responsible for HRH’s retail operations. In the...
Jul 7 2008 // Today’s risk managers need more than just a good broker. They need the best broker. Solid relationships between a broker and a risk manager matter but they aren’t everything, according to Melissa Miller-Bowman,...
Jul 3 2008 // Boston-based AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) announced that Barbican Insurance Group has licensed its catastrophe risk management systems. Barbican trades as Lloyd’s Syndicate 1955 and writes a broad range of...
Jul 2 2008 // A new survey, released by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) London office, notes that although significant progress has been made by the insurance industry in adopting enterprise risk management (ERM) techniques, questions...
Jun 24 2008 // Marsh’s recent survey of leading UK businesses has revealed that “risk management has yet to be fully integrated into the decision-making process at board level among top European businesses.”Marsh...