Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PURE Programs Launches California High Wildfire Risk Homeowners Program
Nov 13 2019 // PURE Programs has launched a new High Wildfire Risk Homeowners Insurance program, with coverages for retail insurance brokers serving clients that own high value homes in California at greater-risk of loss from...
Element Risk Management Acquires Three Insurance Agencies in Virginia, Pennsylvania
Nov 8 2019 // Element Risk Management has acquired three new insurance agencies in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Barnes & Phillips Insurance & Financial Services of Woodstock, Va., Crawford Insurance Company of Strasburg, Va., and...
Companies That Are Open About Cyber Risks Fare Better With Investors
Nov 8 2019 // Research finds that when one company experiences a cybersecurity breach, other companies in the same field also become less attractive to investors. However, companies that are open about their cybersecurity risk...
San Antonio’s Spire Risk Management Acquires Employee Benefit Services
Nov 5 2019 // LP Buddy Morris has launched Spire Risk Management (SRM), a full-service insurance consulting firm specializing in employee benefits, property/casualty and retirement planning, in San Antonio, Texas. Morris said the plan...
Markel Adds Cybersecurity Risk Management Tool to Cyber Products
Oct 30 2019 // Markel has launched a risk management tool for its cyber policyholders. The new WhiteHaX testing and reporting tool simulates cybersecurity breaches and assesses the readiness of deployed security infrastructure and...
Risk Strategies Acquires Pennsylvania’s Dash & Love
Oct 30 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired Dash & Love Inc., a full-service specialty brokerage based just outside of Philadelphia. Terms of the deal were not...
Risk Strategies to Offer Cyber Risk Management Platform Underwritten by Berkley
Oct 23 2019 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has launched the Cyber Resolute offering that combines new technology with smarter processes and specialized coverage. Cyber Resolute...
How Risk Management is Transforming Risk in Commercial Property
Oct 21 2019 // Commercial property underwriters are adjusting to a market defined by rising catastrophe losses and dwindling profits. From increasing rates and higher deductibles to fewer classes of business and stricter underwriting,...
The National Alliance to Livestream New Panel at 50th Anniversary MEGA Seminar
Oct 18 2019 // Austin, TX, October 18, 2019 – The National Alliance announced an opportunity for dues-paid designees and the general public to hear from Florida State University President, John Thrasher, principals from family-owned...
Insurance Office of America Adds Moser to Southwest Florida Team
Oct 15 2019 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) is has added Charity A. Moser to its growing team in Southwest Florida. She joins the new Bonita Springs branch location as a risk management consultant. Moser is a licensed Florida...
Univ. of Louisiana Monroe to Create Risk Management, Insurance Endowed Chair
Oct 11 2019 // The University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) will create an Endowed Chair in Risk Management and Insurance position in the College of Business and Social Sciences with $585,000 in funding that stems from the dissolution of...
Origami Risk Taps Bennett, Bentley to Lead New Operating Units in Chicago
Oct 7 2019 // Chicago-based Origami Risk, a risk and insurance Software as a Service (SaaS) technology firm, has formed two new operating divisions – Risk Solutions and Core Solutions – and appointed Earne Bentley and Christopher...
New Firm’s Services for Consolidated Dairy Industry Include Crop Insurance
Oct 2 2019 // Two traditional U.S. Midwest brokerages serving the dairy market are combining their businesses as the industry consolidates. Chicago-based Rice Dairy LLC and Commodity Risk Management Group of Platteville, Wisconsin, are...
AGCS Names Kang as Head of Reinsurance and Catastrophe Risk Management
Oct 1 2019 // Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), the corporate insurance carrier of Allianz Group, has appointed Hyeji Kang as global head of Reinsurance and Catastrophe Risk Management, effective Oct. 1, 2019. She will...
How U.S. Is Attempting to Manage Risk from ‘Insider’ Terrorist Threat in Aviation
Sep 25 2019 // The arrest of an airline mechanic suspected of being sympathetic with terrorists and charged with sabotaging a jetliner has renewed fear about the “insider threat” to aviation security. Despite security...
Re/insurers Rethink Climate Change Risks as Losses Grow from Wildfires, Floods, Hail
Sep 20 2019 // By the time David Kaisel got back from selling his flour at a farmers’ market, a wildfire in California’s Capay Valley had burnt both his tractor and the shipping container where he kept some tools. His insurer...
Cannabis Risk Management Group Wants to Impact Claims Via Best Practices
Sep 19 2019 // Buying some green bud at a dispensary shouldn’t be much different than purchasing a green pepper at the supermarket. That’s how Rocco Petrilli, a long-time insurance and risk management consultant to the auto...
Spencer Educational Foundation Taps Miller for New Executive Director Position
Sep 18 2019 // The Spencer Educational Foundation announced the addition of Megan Miller as executive director, a new position. Miller will oversee the foundation’s day-to-day operations including the administration of grants, the...
Business Leaders Spend Less Than 1 Day a Year Focusing on Cyber Risk: Marsh Survey
Sep 18 2019 // A majority of busy board members and senior executives, who are responsible for their organization’s cyber risk management, spent less than a day in the last year to focus on cyber risk issues, according to a new...
JBA Risk Management Launches Probabilistic Global Flood Model
Sep 16 2019 // The global leader in flood risk management, JBA Risk Management, launched the first probabilistic global flood model, which allows re/insurers to model river and surface water flood at 30 meters (98.4 feet) resolution...
