All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2006 // Property/casualty insurance and risk management increasingly play a role in financial planning, according to a survey by the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies.Fifty-seven percent of the 102 financial planners surveyed...
Mar 16 2006 // JBL&K Risk Services, a Beecher Carlson company has added two new professionals in its Portland office. Scott Moss joins as vice president/account executive and Cynthia Hilton will also serve as vice president/account...
Mar 14 2006 // Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc., the risk and reinsurance specialist of Marsh & McLennan, has unveiled its new Agricultural Risks Exposures (ERA) model for Italy’s hail insurance market.“The ERA model...
Mar 14 2006 // A new management system, which helps payors control medication costs and enhance patient care has been introduced by PMSI-Tmesys of Tampa, Fla., a provider of workers’ compensation pharmacy and management...
Mar 13 2006 // The Casualty Actuarial Society, ERM Institute International Ltd. (ERM-II), and the CAS/SOA Risk Management Section are jointly launching a major research project titled “ERM Analysis of Property-Casualty Insurance...
Mar 3 2006 // Xinhua Finance Limited, China’s foremost financial information and media provider, announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Beijing Alpha Financial Engineering Company, one of the country’s leading...
Feb 24 2006 // The University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate will hold a free seminar in risk management Monday, Feb. 27 in USD’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. The event begins with a...
Feb 19 2006 // United America Indemnity Ltd.’s board of directors has selected Joseph F. Morris as its president. The company will also consolidate its two U.S. insurance subsidiaries, United National Group and Penn-America Group,...
Feb 19 2006 // PeopleEncino, Calif.-based NAS Insurance Services has appointed Richard Robin president. He will be responsible for overall operations, including underwriting, marketing and administration. Ed Robin will continue to serve...
Feb 6 2006 // That the investigation of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into compensation practices of the nation’s insurance brokers and carriers brought to light the unethical behavior of some bad industry apples was a...
Feb 6 2006 // The extension of the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act represents solvency protection in extreme events but is not an industry subsidy, according to risk modeling experts at Risk Management Solutions and AIR Worldwide...
Feb 6 2006 // The extension of the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Act represents solvency protection in extreme events but is not an industry subsidy, according to risk modeling experts at Risk Management Solutions and AIR Worldwide...
Feb 6 2006 // Analysis of one typical large company’s 65 years of excess casualty programs turns up disturbing news. More than half of the 49 carriers that participated on this corporation’s excess programs are now insolvent...
Feb 5 2006 // That the investigation of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer into compensation practices of the nation’s insurance brokers and carriers brought to light the unethical behavior of some bad industry apples was a...
Feb 5 2006 // Insolvencies have left numerous corporations with uncollectible excess casualty claims and no recourse but to pay these large claims out of company coffers.What happens when the excess carrier goes under To avoid high cost...
Jan 31 2006 // Atlanta-based Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting company, has announced it has entered into a strategic business relationship with Tony Rodolakis, a risk management veteran with...
Jan 30 2006 // The University of Iowa announced that it is now offering a Certificate in Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) through the Emmett J. Vaughan Institute of Risk Management and Insurance, in the Henry B. Tippie College of...
Jan 30 2006 // Lexington Insurance Company, a member company of American International Group Inc. has expanded its online training capabilities at: www.lexeplhelp.com for customers carrying employment practices liability (EPL) insurance....
Jan 22 2006 // Michael J. Roche, senior vice president of Protection Technology and Administration for Allstate Insurance Company, recently was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award Program. Roche was selected...
Jan 20 2006 // AIR Worldwide Corp. announced the opening of AIR Worldwide GmbH in Munich, Germany, “to meet the needs of its expanding client base in the region.” Yoern Tatge will head the new office.AIR noted: “Europe...