All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 12 2008 // Minneapolis-based Western National Insurance Group recently announced that effective as of Feb. 11, 2008, Jeffrey J. Couchman will join the Western National Insurance Group’s management team, serving as both senior...
Feb 10 2008 // The fire that blazed through the top of the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Jan. 25, 2008, could have been far more damaging had it started elsewhere in the building and not been contained so quickly,...
Jan 31 2008 // The fire that blazed through the top of the Monte Carlo Hotel in Las Vegas last Friday could have been far more damaging had it started elsewhere in the building and not been contained so quickly, according to analysts at...
Jan 28 2008 // A.M. Best Co. and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services have been reexamining their ratings on the Bermuda-based XL Capital. and its subsidiaries in light of recent announcements (See IJ web site...
Jan 27 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Meredith Dyson as senior vice president. Dyson, who will assist the company with its marketing efforts and other related activities, will be based in New York.Most recently, Dyson was with...
Jan 27 2008 // The insurance industry’s “traditional model” has become outdated and is so abstruse that the industry’s ability to compete is being jeopardized.European risk managers face the same challenges as...
Jan 14 2008 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has released a 10-year retrospective report on the 1998 Ice Storm that devastated the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as portions of the northeastern U.S., in January 1998....
Jan 14 2008 // Risk Management Solutions gave details of the recent analysis it conducted for a securitization of windstorm risk in France.The securities were issued through Green Valley Ltd., a special purpose vehicle (SPV), and provide...
Jan 14 2008 // The city of Los Angeles spent millions of dollars settling lawsuits that could have been avoided if effective risk management programs had been in place, according to an audit.City Controller Laura Chick said the city...
Jan 13 2008 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, appointed John Nilson senior vice president, western region for ACE Risk Management. Nilson will be based in Los Angeles and oversee ARM...
Jan 3 2008 // IRISK Solutions is a new independent risk management consulting firm, targeting small to middle market companies with annual gross premiums from $50,000 to $1 million.IRISK uses an Enterprise Risk Management approach to...
Dec 28 2007 // Risk Management Solutions Provider Dyadem recently opened its U.S. headquarters in Houston, Texas. Dyadem’s Houston office will address the needs of its existing and rapidly growing U.S. customer base, particularly...
Dec 27 2007 // “Climate change is one of the foremost concerns of our time,” states a bulletin from Willis. “In a relatively short time, the focus has shifted from debate over the reality of global warming to a general...
Dec 23 2007 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected 2008 officers during their meeting in Houston. The newly elected officers, who will assume their duties following the completion of the NAIC...
Dec 20 2007 // San Mateo, Calif.-based Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has hired Jim Halbleib as a principal and executive vice president for the San Mateo office. Halbleib will produce and manage regional, national and global...
Dec 19 2007 // Two insurance education organizations, the Insurance Education Institute (IEI) of Indianapolis, Ind., and The Griffith Foundation for Insurance Education of Columbus, Ohio, recently signed an agreement to merge effective...
Dec 17 2007 // Mo.-based Lockton recently announced that it has expanded its St. Louis brokerage team with the addition of Linda Liston as vice president-Account Executive, and Debra Bunce and Diane Fischer as account executives, and...
Dec 7 2007 // Risk Management Solutions has confirmed its modeled hurricane activity rates for 2008 to 2012, following “an elicitation with a group of the world’s leading hurricane researchers.”The forecast concludes...
Dec 6 2007 // An exhaustive study of the threat posed by coastal flooding warns that “as many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40...
Dec 4 2007 // XL Insurance said it has completed the purchase of Global Asset Protection Services (GAPS) from Swiss Re.The financial terms of the deal, which was first announced on Nov. 16, have not been released. XL is the global...