Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
An Ongoing Commitment to Education
Mar 7 2011 // During my 30-plus years as the owner of one of the largest independent insurance agencies in Texas, I’ve been a stalwart champion for professional education. As an industry, our success is rooted in our commitment to...
Risk Management Tips for Pizzerias
Mar 7 2011 // Similar to how the insurance industry helped to teach pizza chains that the 30-minute delivery promise was harmful from a safety perspective, insurance agents also can help advise restaurants on how to avoid...
Midwest Employers Casualty Creates Healthcare Risk Management Practice
Mar 1 2011 // St. Louis, Mo.-based workers’ compensation excess insurer, Midwest Employers Casualty Co. (MECC), announced it has launched a Healthcare Risk Management Practice. MECC said it created the Healthcare Risk Management...
No Business As Usual For Agents in Workers’ Compensation
Feb 21 2011 // It may be the perfect storm that will change the workers’ compensation landscape for decades. Individually, the forces are daunting, but put together the impact could be industry changing. Health care reform,...
Risk Managers Like, Don’t Like, Obama Budget Reinsurance Proposals
Feb 15 2011 // Risk managers have found things to like, and not like, in President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the 2012 fiscal year. The Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) expressed its continued opposition to a...
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Feb 10 2011 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s Property and Inland Marine Division has promoted two insurance executives: Grace Thomas and Cecil Wilson. Thomas was promoted to divisional senior vice...
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Feb 7 2011 // FARA Insurance Services, a Mandeville, La.-based provider of claims administration and risk management solutions nationwide, appointed Laura Tarantino to the company’s board of directors. As FARA’s senior vice...
How to Become Chief Risk Officer for Small Business Clients
Feb 7 2011 // Some small business owners are expressing their intentions to invest in future growth, as economic storm clouds of the past few years show signs of clearing. The National Federation of Independent Business’ latest...
Public Entities Forced to Adjust Sails in Fiscal Storm
Feb 7 2011 // State and municipal governments are facing tight budgets and many are having difficulty paying for their police, fire, schools and services. Where the municipalities can’t cut back, however, is on...
Super Bowl Risk Management a Team Effort
Feb 4 2011 // The Super Bowl XLV may be the biggest game of the year, and to some, it also presents super-sized risk management challenges. The National Football League said it is expecting a record crowd of 105,000 attendees at Cowboys...
Huber Named as New Project Coordinator for FERMA Team
Jan 27 2011 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has expanded its office team with the appointment of Silke Huber as project coordinator. She will be involved with FERMA’s events, particularly the Risk...
MHBT Names New Partners
Jan 25 2011 // Dallas-based MHBT, one of the largest privately owned insurance and risk management firms in the United States, recently announced that Ryan Bowles, Dan King, Jim Moss and Travis Sartain have been named partners in the...
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Jan 24 2011 // Marsh appointed Jill Sulkes as head of its U.S. Financial Institutions Practice. Sulkes has more than 15 years of experience in risk management for financial institutions, most recently as a managing director in...
Mastrolia To Lead Construction Risk Management at Marsh
Jan 20 2011 // Marsh has named Anthony Mastrolia leader of construction risk management within its U.S. construction practice. Mastrolia, who will be based in New Jersey, is a 35-year vertern of the insurance and risk management...
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Jan 10 2011 // Todd Teitell, executive vice president and branch leader of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. Other elected TSLA officers for the coming year...
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Jan 10 2011 // Pennsylvania-based wholesaler USG Insurance Services has named Jason Holloman as property broker specializing in large commercial and CAT-exposed risks. Holloman most recently served as a wholesale property broker with...
12 Days of Riskmas: An Insurance Broker’s Story
Dec 23 2010 // In giving her Christmas gifts for 12 straight days, a true love inspires his girlfriend to build a whole new life. It’s a joyful story for the holidays but one that comes with risks. According to the popular...
12 Days of Riskmas: An Insurance Broker’s Story
Dec 22 2010 // In giving her Christmas gifts for 12 straight days, a true love inspires his girlfriend to build a whole new life. It’s a joyful story for the holidays but one that comes with risks. According to the popular...
Bieber Joins ProMutual as Risk Consultant
Dec 21 2010 // Boston-based insurer ProMutual Group has hired Linda Bieber as risk management consultant. Bieber, a nurse, will provided physician office appraisals and risk management services to insured hospitals and emergency...
Insurance Vital to Alabama Coast Long-Term Plan, Says Commission
Dec 21 2010 // Coastal Alabama should seize the BP Gulf oil disaster as an opportunity for “resiliency planning” that will not only help the region recover from the oil damage but also put it in a position to better recover...
