Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FORE! Golf club risk moves off course
Aug 20 2007 // In June 2007, a California woman was awarded $4.3 million for injuries she received in a golf car crash that left her too disabled to continue her successful photography and jewelry design careers. A wheel of the car she...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
COMMERCIAL P/C PRICES STILL DROPPING, RISK MANAGER SURVEY FINDS
Aug 6 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued to decline during the second quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers. RIMS Benchmark...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // Today’s energy industry is being challenged by climate changes, market fluctuations, business mergers, natural disasters, terrorism, war, political risk, increasing regulatory and financial scrutiny and evolving...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Global Insurance Leaders Place Growth at Top Of List
Aug 1 2007 // The leading overall issue facing the global insurance industry is capitalizing on new market opportunities, according to a survey of the participants at the 43rd Annual Seminar of the International Insurance Society (IIS)...
The Hartford Adds Butler in Risk Management Unit’s Dallas Office
Jul 25 2007 // The Hartford Risk Management Division announced the appointment of Dean Butler as Risk Management Sales Practice leader for the company’s Dallas office. Butler will be responsible for national accounts/loss sensitive...
Atlanta-Based Risk Management Firm Names New Officers
Jul 24 2007 // Atlanta-based Pritchard & Jerden Inc., named Brian Boro and Shannon Price as partners at their annual Board and Shareholder Meeting last week. Boro and Price will also be added to the Board of Directors. John Allan,...
Insurers Want to Know: Does Enterprise Risk Management Add Value?
Jul 23 2007 // Enterprise risk management will have to meet the expectations of corporate board members and deliver real value to firms if it is to flourish, attendees of the Casualty Actuarial Society meeting in Florida heard. Bill...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Calif. workers’ comp earthquake losses could exceed $150 million annually
Jul 23 2007 // California workers’ compensation insurers will need $180 million annually to pay for workers’ compensation losses induced by earthquakes, according to a recently released study by the Workers’...
Commercial P/C Prices Still Dropping, Risk Manager Survey Finds
Jul 17 2007 // Commercial insurance premiums continued to decline during the second quarter of 2007, according to the RIMS Benchmark Survey, a survey of current policy renewal prices as reported by corporate risk managers. RIMS Benchmark...
Willis, The Sullivan Group Form Strategic Alliance
Jul 9 2007 // Willis Group Holdings and The Sullivan Group announced the creation of a strategic alliance to provide Willis health care clients with additional and enhanced clinical risk management products and services. The Sullivan...
Levine Joins Beecher Carlson Risk Management Practice in Conn.
Jun 29 2007 // Atlanta-based insurance broker Beecher Carlson has named Gerald Levine as managing director. Levine will be responsible for client development for Beecher Carlson’s Risk Management Practice. He will be based in Old...
Lanier Upshaw Forms Private Risk Management Group for Florida Market
Jun 28 2007 // Lanier Upshaw has created a practice group tailored to meet the private insurance needs of high net worth clientèle throughout Florida. The group, named Private Risk Management, will insure high value items such as...
Risk Management Solutions Sets Up Multi-Peril Catastrophe Swap
Jun 25 2007 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a risk modeling company, has designed the trigger mechanisms and performed the risk analysis for a securitization of multi-peril, multi-event catastrophe...
Ill. Associated Risk Managers Add New Board Members
Jun 21 2007 // Associated Risk Managers (ARM) recently announced the addition of three new members to their Board of Directors. The members are Robert E. Weaver, vice president, Jackson, Dieken & Associates, Westlake, Ohio and Past...
News Currents
Jun 18 2007 // Study: Calif. workers’ comp reforms are working Yet risk managers say keeping workers safe and costs down still major concerns California employers and insurers have started to see — and should continue to see...
