Latest Risk Management Headlines

All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Risk Models Behind Insurance-Linked Securities Are Getting a Lot Harder to Crack

Feb 26 2024 // As the best hedge fund strategy of 2023 becomes a magnet for mainstream investors, the risk models it relies on are getting a lot tougher to crack.The strategy in question is tied to insurance-linked securities, which are...

Texas Governor Names Ladner Chair, Appoints Houston To Risk Management Board

Feb 22 2024 // Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Jeffrey Houston to the Risk Management Board for a term set to expire on February 1, 2025. Additionally, the Governor named Gerald Ladner, Sr. chair of the board. The Board...

Beazley Creates Cyber Risk Management Company

Feb 21 2024 // Beazley, the London-based specialty insurer, announced the creation of an integrated cyber risk management company, Beazley Security, formed from the merger of its in-house Cyber Services team and its wholly owned cyber...

Empowering the Future: Investing in Risk Management Education

Feb 16 2024 // Tallahassee, FL, February 16, 2023 — Florida is witnessing a surge in educational initiatives supporting the growth of the risk management and insurance (RMI) profession.The surplus lines market has more than doubled...

Cyber Risk Management Specialist KYND Secures New Funding for Global Growth Plans

Feb 16 2024 // KYND, the London-based provider of cyber risk management solutions, has disclosed “a substantial investment” to propel expansion and further growth.The investment comes from Verisk, a leading global data...

Insurtech Resilience Expands Cyber Risk Management to Clients of $10B in Revenue

Jan 30 2024 // San Francisco, California-based Resilience expanded its underwriting authority to serve large global companies with up to $10 billion in annual revenues. The company reported that its expanded authorities come after a...

Howden Acquires UK-Based AHR Consultants to Boost Risk Management Capabilities

Jan 29 2024 // Howden, the London-based global insurance group, announced it has bolstered its risk management capabilities in the UK through the acquisition of AHR Consultants, a leading provider of HR, employment law, training and...

Riskonnect Acquires Ventiv Technology in Risk Management Deal

Jan 12 2024 // Riskonnect, a provider integrated risk management (IRM) solutions, said Thursday is acquired Ventiv Technology, a provider of risk, insurance and underwriting technology solutions.“The acquisition adds substantial...

Risk Manager: Road Design, Not Speed Limit, Key to Stopping Pedestrian Deaths

Dec 14 2023 // (The Center Square) – To save the lives of bikers and walkers, the question facing local and state officials isn’t getting speed limits right, but getting road design right.The difference between posted limits and...

People Moves: Symphony Grow Names Sampson Senior Director of Legal Affairs and Risk Management

Dec 4 2023 // Symphony Grow, the specialty business of Symphony Risk Solutions, appointed Michael H. Sampson as senior director of legal affairs and risk management. Sampson joins Symphony from Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, where...

Best Agency to Work For – Silver Midwest: Powers Insurance & Risk Management

Nov 21 2023 // As a multi-year winner of Insurance Journal’s Best Agency to Work For award, J.D. Powers of Powers Insurance & Risk Management doesn’t lose sight of what the honor represents to the St. Louis,...

Dash Cams in Fleet Vehicles are Key to Avoiding Nuclear Verdicts, Risk Managers Say

Nov 14 2023 // ORLANDO, Fla. — Cameras. One showing the driver and another facing forward.Those can be the keys to avoiding nuclear verdicts after auto and truck crashes, especially for companies with fleets of vehicles and relatively...

The Value of Combining Models in Wildfire Risk Management

Nov 9 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Welcome to the final installment of our four-part series on wildfire hazard and risk management where we will explore the optimal use of CoreLogic’s wildfire risk...

Tech Update: AXA XL Launches Virtual Reality Training Solution for Risk Managers

Oct 23 2023 // AXA XL Risk Consulting announced the launch of AXA Immersive Solutions, an innovative training solution leveraging virtual reality (VR) and digital twin technologies.AXA Immersive Solutions gives AXA XL’s risk...

New FERMA President Plans to Amplify Voice of European Risk Managers at EU Level

Oct 17 2023 // Charlotte Hedemark became president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) on Oct. 16 at an official handover ceremony at the FERMA Seminar 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium.She replaces Dirk Wegener,...

Powers Insurance & Risk Management: Building A Family-Driven Culture of Success

Oct 16 2023 // As a multi-year winner of Insurance Journal’s Best Agency to Work For award, J.D. Powers of Powers Insurance & Risk Management doesn’t lose sight of what the honor represents to the St. Louis,...

Freedom Insurance and Risk Management Joins VIAA

Oct 13 2023 // Freedom Insurance and Risk Management recently joined Valley Insurance Agency Alliance (VIAA), a cohesive family of more than 160 independent insurance agencies in Missouri and Illinois. Founded in 2023, Freedom Insurance...

Flooded Clinics, Embryo Mix-ups: The Risk Management of In Vitro Fertilization

Oct 13 2023 // (Bloomberg) —In March, a 39-year-old woman and her husband sat in a fertility clinic near Atlanta, and waited. The woman was there to have an embryo implanted in her uterus, the final stage of a grueling in vitro...

Wildfire Risk Management Starts by Properly Using a Full Toolbox

Oct 10 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Welcome to the third installment of our four-part series on wildfire hazard and risk management, where we will explore CoreLogic’s wildfire risk models and their...

Bankman-Fried Was ‘Math Nerd’ Who Overlooked Risk Management

Oct 5 2023 // Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer laid out his defense case at his fraud trial on Oct. 4, portraying the 31-former billionaire as a “math nerd” who overlooked risk management in building his FTX exchange, but...