Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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Jan 25 2009 // The Insurance Marketing and Communications Association named Richard Look president. He is a marketing communications veteran with agency and insurance company experience, and currently serves as vice president of...
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Jan 25 2009 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Russell Johnston president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance. Johnston joined AIG in 1990 serving in senior management positions within...
Lloyd’s Web Site Summarizes Current Opinions on Climate Change
Jan 23 2009 // “The string of natural catastrophes that wreaked havoc in 2008, costing the global economy $225 billion and leaving insurers with their second costliest year in history, graphically highlights the increasing risks to...
Survey: Risk Managers Report Modest Premium Decreases in Q4
Jan 21 2009 // Insurance premiums for businesses continued a five-year trend of falling rates during the fourth quarter of 2008, but recent data suggest a reversal of this trend may soon be underway. Rates for property, general...
Risk Management Solutions Makes UK Flood Data Available to Public
Jan 20 2009 // Risk Management Solutions announced that its flood mapping data will be made publicly available for the first time. The decision gives “homebuyers far more accurate information about the likelihood of getting...
Newly-Launched Vortex Insurance Offering Weather Risk Insurance
Jan 15 2009 // MSI GuaranteedWeather, LLC, a provider of weather risk management products, has formed Vortex Insurance Agency, LLC in Overland, Kansas to sell weather risk insurance products to businesses. The weather risk line is being...
American Pinnacle Partners Announces Acquisition of Consolidated Special Risk Managers, Inc.
Jan 12 2009 // Seal Beach, CA and San Rafael, CA, January 12, 2009 — American Pinnacle Partners, Inc. (“APP”), a holding company of specialty insurance companies, and Consolidated Specialty Risk Managers...
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Jan 11 2009 // Jacksonville, Fla.-based Harden & Associates has added Chris Huber as a Commercial Insurance account director. Harden & Associates also named Kathryn McKenna as a Personal Insurance account director. Prior to...
Indiana’s Gibson Insurance Group Adds Staff
Dec 18 2008 // Mark Wobbe has been named property/casualty practice leader for Gibson Insurance Group. Wobbe will provide risk management and insurance services to business clients and will lead the firm’s technology and life...
Munich Re, Risk Management Solutions Extend Research Agreement
Dec 17 2008 // Risk Management Solutions announced from its London office that Munich Re is extending its “state-of-the-art” risk research and quantification capabilities through a cooperation agreement with RMS....
American Pinnacle Partners Acquires Consolidated Special Risk Managers
Dec 16 2008 // Seal Beach, Calif.-based American Pinnacle Partners Inc. has acquired 100 percent of Consolidated Special Risk Managers Inc. a MGU founded in 1990. Focused on the A&H/Benefits sector, CSRM has a large presence in the...
Aon Names Finnamore for Risk Management in Far East, Asia, Australia
Dec 15 2008 // Aon Corp. announced that Jim Finnamore will join the firm in January as regional director of Aon Environmental Services Group, Asia-Pacific. He will be based in Singapore and will coordinate the delivery of the...
Ohio Casualty Teams Up with National Alliance for Risk Managers Program
Dec 9 2008 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, is teaming with The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research to offer its Certified School Risk Managers (CSRM)...
Risk Management Solutions Names Walden to Data Solutions Team
Dec 8 2008 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) appointed Steve Walden general manager of the company’s data solutions division. Based in Boulder, Colo., Walden will be responsible for developing new client...
Willis’ CEO Praises Risk Managers as Potential Financial Crisis Heroes
Dec 8 2008 // In his keynote address to the UK’s Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC) Joe Plumeri, Chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, said that risk managers have never been more important than they are...
Wells Fargo Acquires Assets of Michigan’s Doeren Mayhew Risk Management
Nov 24 2008 // San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. a bank-owned insurance brokerage and a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co., has acquired the assets of Troy, Michi.’s Doeren Mayhew Risk Management LLC. Doeren...
ACE Names Ringsted Chief Risk Officer
Nov 21 2008 // ACE Limited has announced the appointment of Sean Ringsted as Chief Risk Officer for the ACE Group of Companies. In this role, which will be in addition to his current responsibilities as Chief Actuary. Ringsted...
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Nov 16 2008 // New York-based Navigators Group hired Paul Hennessy as president of Navigators Holdings (UK) Ltd. He will be responsible for Navigators’ operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and will report to President...
Attract and Win Social Services Business with Risk Management Strategies
Nov 16 2008 // How Insurance Professionals Can Be Valuable Advisors to Non-Profit Organizations Operating a non-profit social service business has always been a challenging balance between meeting constituent needs, funding the...
Green Building: New Benefits for Society and New Challenges for Risk Management
Nov 16 2008 // As society becomes more environmentally conscious, as energy prices continue to soar, and as government laws and regulations mandate it, green building promises to become the rule, rather than the exception, in the...
