Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
JLT Specialty USA Appoints Trinkleback as Sr. VP, Casualty Risk Control Leader
Jan 25 2016 // JLT Specialty USA, a U.S. subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc. (JLT), named Robert Trinkleback as its new senior vice president, Casualty Risk Control leader at JLT’s Chicago office. Trinkleback, who most...
Willis Towers Watson Appoints Financial Institutions Leader for CEEMEA
Jan 14 2016 // Willis Towers Watson has appointed Alexander van Kuffeler as regional leader of Financial Institutions in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA). Based in London, van Kuffeler takes up the role with...
RIMS Names 2016 Leaders; Outerwall’s Pemberton Becomes President
Jan 8 2016 // RIMS, the risk management society, announced that Julie Pemberton will lead the group as president for the 2016 term. Pemberton is the director of Enterprise Risk and Insurance Management for Outerwall Inc. She has been a...
QBE North America Names AIG’s Davide as Senior VP for Risk Management
Jan 5 2016 // QBE North America said announced that Joseph Davide has joined the organization as senior vice president, Risk Management, QBE’s large risk business in North America. This business is part of QBE’s Standard...
McKee Risk Management Hires Prinz as Social Services VP in Penn.
Dec 18 2015 // Lisa Prinz McKee Risk Management Inc. in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, has hired Lisa Prinz as vice president of the Social Services Practice. Prinz was previously at Harleysville/Nationwide Insurance where she started...
Wells Fargo Insurance Reports Hiring Spree
Dec 18 2015 // Wells Fargo Insurance said it has hired more than 100 professionals in recent months as it seeks to grow and improve customer service. “Continuing to invest in talent is critical to the success of our business and...
British Insurers Adjust Risk Models after Costly Repeat of 100-Year Floods
Dec 7 2015 // British insurers could have to pay out up to £250 million ($377 million) in claims to owners of homes and businesses, industry specialists said on Monday, after the northwest of England suffered once-in-a-century floods...
Cyber Security: Insurance as an Essential Part of Risk Management
Dec 7 2015 // The cost and frequency of cyber-related security threats are on the rise. Some estimates claim that one-in-six businesses have experienced a cyber attack in the past year while the cost of cyber attacks on global...
UT Dallas Recruits Industry Execs for Risk, Insurance Advisory Group
Nov 18 2015 // Debra Richardson, director of a new University of Texas at Dallas concentration in risk management and insurance (RMI), plans to have students in that area equipped to fill some of 400,000 industry vacancies anticipated by...
Gender Gap Closing
Nov 16 2015 // Male risk managers in higher education are paid more on average than their female counterparts but the gap is closing as women gain experience in the field, according to a survey on risk manager compensation. Male risk...
Gender Gap in Risk Manager Compensation Closing: Survey
Nov 9 2015 // Male risk managers in higher education are paid more on average than their female counterparts but the gap is closing as women gain experience in the field, according to a survey on risk manager compensation. Male risk...
Group Enhances Online Training for Employment Practices Risk Management
Oct 27 2015 // The Employment Practices Risk Management Association (EPRMA), based in Chicago, has enhanced its website (www.eprma.org), with three new employment practices training courses designed to help employers train senior staff...
Indiana’s Butler University Creating Student-Run Insurer
Oct 14 2015 // Almost a quarter of the insurance industry is set to retire by 2022, and Butler University’s College of Business in Indianapolis is preparing its graduates to fill those voids by establishing its own student-run...
Hostile Environment Liability Protection Program Adds Intelligence Panel
Oct 13 2015 // The Hostile Environment Liability Protection (HELP) program, a risk mitigation, crisis response and insurance program designed to guide and protect operations in hostile or complex environments, has added a new...
Willis Launches European Motor Risk Model for 3rd Party Exposures
Oct 12 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc has launched a modeling tool that enables risk managers to forecast third party motor risk across Europe. The Dynamic Casualty Forecast tool uses Willis’ proprietary data so that a client...
FERMA Forum Focuses on ‘Great Difficulties’ in an Ever Riskier World
Oct 9 2015 // The FERMA Forum differs from the Reinsurance Rendezvous in Monte Carlo, as it is mainly attended by corporate risk managers, rather than reinsurers and brokers. This year, however, two overriding concerns were uppermost in...
New FERMA President to Focus on Success of Professional Certification Program
Oct 9 2015 // The new president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA), Jo Willaert, says the success of FERMA’s new professional certification program, rimap, is a principal objective of his two-year...
Cyber, Reputation Risks Top List of CEO, Risk Manager Concerns: Marsh Survey
Oct 8 2015 // Cyber and IT-related risks top the list of what keeps CEOs and risk managers awake at night, according to the 2015 International Business Resiliency Survey, conducted by Marsh and Disaster Recovery Institute International...
ACE Appoints Divakaran as Marine Risk Manager for Asia Pacific
Oct 8 2015 // ACE Group has appointed Captain Sivakumaran Divakaran as the new marine risk manager for Asia Pacific. Divakaran will be part of the Asia Pacific Marine team, which provides marine cargo insurance for a wide commodity...
Risk Managers Show Value with Their Understanding of Risk Tolerance: Willis
Oct 6 2015 // A proper understanding of risk tolerance is one of the key factors that can help the risk function demonstrate that it is much more than a cost center and truly adds value to the organization, according to John Merkovsky,...
