All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 17 2002 // Professionals seeking to attain the designation of Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) now have a new option. The CIC designation, which is currently earned by completing five CIC institutes and examinations, will accept a...
May 31 2002 // Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced that it has provided the risk analysis to Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co., Ltd. and its counterparty, Swiss Re in support of the Fujiyama Ltd. $70...
May 24 2002 // A new agreement between GE Global Asset Protection Services, a unit of GE’s Employers Re group, and XL Winterthur International (XLWI), a member of the XL Capital Ltd. group, aims to give risk managers access to...
May 17 2002 // The Nonprofits’ Insurance Alliance of California (NIAC) board of directors recently set aside $1,000,000 of NIAC’s surplus to be returned to members who were with NIAC during the years 1995 through 1999. The...
May 13 2002 // Applied Insurance Research, Inc. (AIR), a catastrophe and weather risk modeling company, has assembled a suite of products developed to meet the needs of corporate risk managers. The products, capitalizing on AIR’s...
May 10 2002 // California-based ABD Insurance & Financial Services, Inc., a technology industry focused insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting practice, and Syntrio, Inc., a provider of complete online training...
May 1 2002 // The American Institute for CPCU has just announced major changes in its Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCUÒ) professional designation program. Starting in the summer of 2002, the CPCU program willRequire...
Apr 19 2002 // A study focusing on Fortune 1,000 chief financial officers (CFOs), treasurers and risk managers covering a broad range of industries reports more than 50 percent say their companies are not well-prepared to come back from...
Apr 11 2002 // Mutual Risk Management, the troubled Bermuda-based holding company that owns the Legion Insurance Group, announced that John Kessock Jr. has resigned as President and a Director of the Company “in order to pursue...
Apr 10 2002 // Applied Insurance Research, Inc. (AIR), a catastrophe and weather risk modeling company, announced the assembly of a suite of products developed to meet the needs of corporate risk managers. The products, capitalizing on...
Mar 27 2002 // CFOs are looking for ways to maintain earnings stability and secure a competitive advantage in the uncertain economic market and are finding it in an unlikely place—risk management—according to final results of a...
Mar 26 2002 // American International Group, Inc. (AIG) announced that the American International Companies has introduced AIG PowerBuild(SM), which provides a comprehensive package of insurance products and services designed for the...
Mar 14 2002 // The Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) elected Tracy L. Dahl-Webb, a risk manager for the city of Brookings, S. D., as president of the association for 2002-2003. Dahl-Webb will take office in May at PRIMA’s...
Mar 8 2002 // Mutual Risk Management Ltd. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with The BISYS Group Inc. for the sale of its fund administration business, Hemisphere Management Ltd. Pursuant to the agreement the Company...
Mar 7 2002 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has purchased the Catalyst® U.S. earthquake, hurricane, and tornado models and related software from Benfield Blanch Inc. RMS will incorporate elements of the models into its RiskLink®...
Feb 25 2002 // Aon recently presented preliminary findings of a survey that reveals most CFOs have concerns about whether their risk management strategies support their companies’ business objectives.Conducted by CFO Research...
Feb 22 2002 // Element Re Capital Products Inc., a division of XL Capital specializing in weather risk management products, has announced the international publication of “Weather Risk Management: Markets, products and...
Feb 22 2002 // Managing risk worldwide is the timely theme of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.’s annual conference this year in New Orleans, La. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks highlighted the increasingly important...
Feb 4 2002 // Jon Farber, assistant vice president of Global Technology Underwriting for The St. Paul Companies, commented during a meeting of insurance professionals and risk managers at the Insuring E-Business Summit in San Francisco...
Jan 16 2002 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced that its annual Client Conference will be held March 11-14, in San Francisco, at the Westin St. Francis Hotel.The conference’s focus, shaped by direct feedback from RMS...