All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2020 // This course is part of the PROFocus Series and is open to all risk and insurance professionals.Austin, TX, August 21, 2020 – The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research released a new 16-hour online...
Aug 14 2020 // Marsh, the insurance broker and risk adviser, announced the appointment of Scott Leney as risk management leader for both its Asia and Pacific regions.In his new role, Leney will oversee Marsh’s regional risk...
Aug 12 2020 // BKS Partners, a national insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has appointed Jennifer Berry to partner.Berry joined BKS in 2006 as a founding colleague. She currently works with...
Aug 10 2020 // Insurance for a condominium association is designed to finance the insurable exposures for the association. These exposures include the property and several liability exposures, including what would be covered by a...
Jul 30 2020 // Jupiter, a Silicon Valley startup provider of predictive data and analytics for climate risk, announced it has raised additional capital from insurers Liberty Mutual and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, and SYSTEMIQ, a...
Jul 15 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Los Angeles, Calif.-based Boldt Risk Management Solutions.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The BRMS team will join with Gallagher’s Glendale and Irvine offices, under...
Jul 9 2020 // Kovrr, a cyber risk modeling company, announced it has developed an easy-to-use open framework to measure and understand catastrophic cyber risk exposure.The CRA-Zones™ framework defines the minimal elements needed to...
Jul 8 2020 // C&S Insurance, based in Mansfield, Mass., has hired Matt Post and Paul West to its team. This comes as the agency has added a fourth office location and expanded its staff by 30% over the past several months.As senior...
Jul 6 2020 // As many states keep watch for the “next wave” of COVID-19 infections, the insurance industry is keeping watch for the “next wave” of potential claims that could be directed at independent agents.In...
Jul 2 2020 // Clients of M&T Insurance Agency Inc. (MTIA), a provider of commercial insurance and risk management solutions that is part of the M&T Bank Corporation family, will now benefit from a new cyber risk analytics...
Jul 2 2020 // Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) has formed a new team, Sompo GRS Europe, based in...
Jun 29 2020 // A Dutch safety watchdog said Thursday [June 25] that it is “undesirable” for large container ships to use a shipping route through an environmentally sensitive, shallow sea off the coast of the Netherlands,...
Jun 19 2020 // Developing young talent to become successful young agents is not easy.Chris Burand, president of Burand & Associates, an insurance agency consulting firm, estimates that the new producer failure rate is as high as 70%...
Jun 16 2020 // POWERS Insurance & Risk Management in St. Louis, Missouri, has hired Patty Taylor as personal lines account manager.In this position, she will handle the ongoing management of personal lines accounts, retaining new and...
Jun 15 2020 // As one of the oldest industries, construction has been notoriously slow to adopt technological advancements and embrace the digital age. However, in the last decade, many innovative technologies have gained traction in the...
Jun 15 2020 // An agent who is a client of mine asked me, “Do you really think any business owner is truly happy with their agent or insurance company today?” Good question. Having to tell the public over and over and over,...
May 28 2020 // Midwest Insurance Agency Alliance, Inc. (MIAA), a network of independent insurance agencies across seven states, has added Skyline Risk Management of Independence, Missouri, as a member of the agency group. Skyline Risk...
May 22 2020 // Fire-risk scores now used by insurance underwriters can sometimes can make it challenging for homeowners to find coverage.Zesty.ai, a California insurtech start-up, is among a handful of firms working to fine-tune...
May 20 2020 // CSDZ, a Holmes Murphy company, has added Cal Beyer to its Minnesota team as vice president of Workforce Risk and Worker Wellbeing.Beyer has over 30 years of safety, insurance, and risk management experience, with 24 of...
May 19 2020 // Risk managers expect a prolonged global recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a report by the World Economic Forum showed on Tuesday.Two-thirds of the 347 respondents to the survey – carried out in...