Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals the Science of Risk That Shapes Our Lives
Mar 31 2020 // Hours after the results of a risk model reached the public, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump asked nearly 400 million people to upend their lives. A group of epidemiologists at Imperial...
CAC Specialty Adds Trinkleback and Goodier in Colorado
Mar 30 2020 // CAC Specialty has named Robert Trinkleback leader of property/casualty loss control, and Jonathan Goodier vice president and property/casualty claims advocate in Denver, Colo. Trinkleback will help clients improve...
How to Manage Risk in a Hardening Market
Mar 23 2020 // A financial market that’s in correction territory, coronavirus pandemic fears and an insurance industry hard market for the first time in years. Are these issues related or becoming more so? What’s an insured...
Everest Re Restructures Risk Management Function, Naming Mango CRO, Chief Actuary
Mar 17 2020 // Everest Re Group Ltd. announced the promotion of Don Mango to Everest Group chief risk officer and chief actuary, effective March 30th. In this new role, Mango will report to Everest Re Group President and CEO Juan C....
Meetings Update: Target Markets Mid-Year Called Off; RIMS Cancels Conference
Mar 16 2020 // The Target Market Program Administrators Association has become the latest insurance organization to cancel a meeting. TMPAA Executive Director Ray Scotto announced that the 2020 TMPAA Mid-Year Meeting planned for Tampa on...
Meetings Update: RIMS Cancels 2020 Annual Conference; IICF Postpones Events
Mar 14 2020 // For the first time in the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s 70-year history, it is not going to have its annual conference. The RIMS 2020 Annual Conference & Exhibition scheduled for May 6 in Denver has...
Meetings Update March 13: No In-Person Audience for Buffett’s Annual Meeting
Mar 13 2020 // Warren Buffett, CEO, said there will be a Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting as usual on May 2 but it will be unusual in that it will not be attended by thousands of shareholders, employees and media representatives as in...
Update March 12: Insurance Conferences Canceled, Postponed, Going Virtual
Mar 12 2020 // The roster of insurance-related conferences being canceled, postponed or moved to virtual due to the coronavirus threat keeps changing. Here is an updated list: March Property Liability Research Bureau (PLRB) called off...
U.S. Commission Explains Why It Thinks Insurance Is Failing Cybersecurity
Mar 11 2020 // The following excerpt is from the new report, “A Warning from Tomorrow,” on U.S. cybersecurity strategy by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. The report contains about 75 recommendations on what the country...
U.S. Cybersecurity Report Calls for Major Government Role in Cyber Insurance
Mar 11 2020 // A major government report on cybersecurity that warns the nation is seriously underprepared for cyber attacks calls for the creation of a federally-funded center to develop cybersecurity insurance certifications and a...
How People Perceive and Manage Risks Like Coronavirus
Mar 9 2020 // Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebody stuck out a hand to shake. She took...
Risk Strategies Acquires Atlas Insurance Management of North Carolina
Mar 6 2020 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Atlas Insurance Management of North Carolina, a company that works on the formation and management of captive insurance...
Risk Modeling Firm Verisk Cancels Live Event Over Virus, Goes Virtual for Cyber Seminar
Mar 4 2020 // Insurance data analytics and risk modeling firm Verisk has converted its Cyber and Casualty Seminar scheduled for March 10 in New York City from an in-person to a free virtual event “out of an abundance of caution...
Missouri’s POWERS Insurance & Risk Management Launches Surety Bonds Division
Feb 25 2020 // St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance & Risk Management has opened a new division: POWERS Surety Bonds. The new national division will focus on bond products and services for all surety programs to help safeguard...
RIMS Workshop at University of Southern California Drawing Broader Insurance Professional Audience
Feb 18 2020 // A risk professional is no longer merely someone who just focuses on protecting assets, according to Ward Ching, a managing director of the Western region at Aon. Ching not only sees a growing need for risk professionals to...
Gaining a Risk Manager Seat at Technology’s Table: Interview with RIMS Leader Langone
Feb 11 2020 // The culture at technology startups like Uber, Airbnb and PayPal is all about risk-taking. They start by offering a unique, untested or reimagined product or service or by disrupting an industry’s established...
Iowa’s LMC Insurance & Risk Management Teams Up with AssuredPartners
Feb 10 2020 // LMC Insurance & Risk Management, headquartered in West De Moines, Iowa, has joined Florida-based AssuredPartners Inc.’s national broker team. LMC’s operations consist of 290 dedicated employees who will...
Take a ‘Deep Dive’ Into the Nonprofit Sector: Nonprofits Treading Water as Market Hardens
Feb 10 2020 // The task of insuring nonprofit organizations is a complex one and agents, brokers, underwriters and carrier representatives say that in order to fully serve those entities that serve our communities in myriad ways,...
How Brokers Stay Relevant? Be Nimble With Your Value Props
Feb 10 2020 // Commercial brokers, the future is bright. As you contend with an increasingly automated, digitally-enhanced insurance industry, rest assured your expertise remains valuable for your clients. That is, if you can adapt to...
Risk Strategies Acquires Transport Risk Management in Colorado
Feb 4 2020 // Risk Strategies has acquired Transport Risk Management Inc. in Denver, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Risk Strategies is a privately held, national insurance broker with offices across the country. Transport...
