Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Risks of School and Workplace Violence to be Explored at Meeting
May 25 2001 // More than 2,000 risk management professionals from around the world are expected to attend North America’s largest meeting of government risk management practitioners in Chicago from June 10-13, 2001. Programming for...
Aquila Forms Alliance With Mitsui for Weather Risk Management
Apr 20 2001 // Kansas City-based Aquila, Inc. will join forces with Japan’s Mitsui Marine and Fire Insurance Co. to develop and market weather risk management products in Japan and Asia. Aquila, a diversified subsidiary of...
Mutual Risk Management To Receive $112.5 Million from Investors Led by XL
Apr 19 2001 // Bermuda-based Mutual Risk Management Ltd. will receive a much needed capital injection of $112.5 million in the form of senior convertible debentures from a group of investors headed by XL Capital Ltd. The company has...
Earthquake Seminars To Hit the West Coast This Month
Feb 1 2001 // This month, Applied Insurance Research Inc., a Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm, will be offering free seminars in Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco to demonstrate a new site-specific risk assessment capability...
Ebix.com Partners With Risk Management Technologies
Jan 25 2001 // ebix.com Inc. has partnered with Risk Management Technologies Inc., a move that gives surety agents and brokers using the new ebixASP agency management system access to a surety bond management system. Risk Management...
Cyberliability: Identifying the Risks in Cyberspace Can Be Tricky
Oct 2 2000 // As Internet use increases, both individuals and businesses face a growing number of legal dilemmas. Is lost electronic data “property damage” within the meaning of a standard insurance policy? What’s the...
XL’s Element Re To Specialize in Weather Risk Management
Sep 26 2000 // Bermuda based XL Capital Ltd. announced the formation of “a new unit, Element Re, to provide risk management insurance, reinsurance and financial products.” “Element Re will offer customers a range of...
Gallagher Acquires Three Agencies
Sep 20 2000 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has completed the acquisition of three agencies; Atlantic Risk Management Corporation, of Baltimore; Murphy Consultants, of Elgin, Ill.; and R.G. Speno, Inc. Insurance Brokerage, of...
Swiss Re,Enron Create New Risk Management Technique
Sep 6 2000 // Swiss Re New Markets (SRNM)and Houston based energy giant Enron have combined their expertise to create a new and innovative risk management product for “financing of a specific portfolio of natural gas...
School Rules For the New Millennium
Jun 26 2000 // Today, there are roughly 51.5 million public and private school students and 3 million teachers in the United States, according to the NationalSchool Boards Association. And although these schools are scattered across the...
GoRisk Offers Internet End-To-End Corporate Risk Management Solution
Jun 13 2000 // GoRisk will offer its proprietary risk management services over the Internet to a select group of corporations beginning this fall. The online methodology, which harnesses the knowledge of industry experts, technological...
Mutual Risk Management Affirmed
May 29 2000 // The “A+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Legion Insurance Co., Legion Indemnity Co. and Villanova Insurance Co. were reaffirmed by Standard & Poor’s (S&P). The companies...
SCHOOL RULES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: School Districts Face New Risks from the Playground to the Clas
May 29 2000 // With the new millennium comes a complex array of challenges to America’s public schools. Among them are the need to improve academic performance, reduce overcrowded classrooms, meet the needs of a growing number of...
SINSER Buys U.K. Risk Management Group
May 24 2000 // SINSER Holding AB, part of Sweden’s Skandia Group, announced that it has acquired Risk & Insurance Research Group Ltd.(RIRG) of London for an undisclosed price. The move underlines Skandia’s strategic...
Online Certificate Systems Reap Benefits for Agents and Consumers
May 15 2000 // Large commercial insurance agencies, issuing perhaps tens of thousands of certificates of insurance per year, often face a dilemma: how can the process be made more efficient and effective? However, technological...
E-Commerce initiative Work to Steadily Transfirm the Industry
May 15 2000 // Insurers have been inundated by a flood of e-commerce initiatives and cataclysmic scenarios about the transformation which technology is set to bestow (or impose) on the industry. The reality becomes clearer every day....
Online Certificate Systems Reap Benefits for Agents and Consumers
May 15 2000 // Large commercial insurance agencies, issuing perhaps tens of thousands of certificates of insurance per year, often face a dilemma: how can the process be made more efficient and effective? However, technological...
Internet Insurance, Risk Purchases Will Increase Significantly
May 2 2000 // While U.S. corporations make minimal use of the Internet today for commercial insurance or risk management needs, a significant increase is expected over the course of the next 24 months, according to a survey by the...
