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Miscellaneous Health Care Facilities: Risk mixing and matching

Jul 24 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Jul 24 2006 // People Minneapolis, Minn.-based ING named Susan Anderson president and CEO of ING Trust USA. Anderson will lead the growth and development of personal trust and directed institutional trusts nationally. She has 15 years of...

Miscellaneous Health Care Facilities: Risk mixing and matching

Jul 24 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Valverde Named VP of I.I.I.

Jul 24 2006 // The Insurance Information Institute has promoted Dr. L. James Valverde Jr. to vice president of Economics and Risk Management. Dr. Valverde joined the I.I.I. in August 2005 as director of Economics and Risk Management,...

Travelers ‘CD’ Targets Risk Control for Tech Firms

Jul 21 2006 // Travelers has created a new CD, “The Best of Technology Risk Control,” to assist technology businesses seeking information on topics such as business continuity, workers’ compensation and manufacturing...

ACE USA Realigns Construction Industry Practice

Jul 19 2006 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has announced that its Construction Industry Practice, formerly part of ACE Risk Management, will now become a unit of ACE Casualty Risk, and...

Standard & Poor’s Annual Insurance Conference

Jul 4 2006 // Despite recent adversity and scrutiny faced by the insurance industry, financial ratings for companies appear on the upswing. “For the first time that I can remember we have a period where none of the sectors that we...

Healthcare liability moves beyond hospitals to specialized facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable” and in the health care arena that especially rings true. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

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Jul 3 2006 // Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only...

Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Jul 3 2006 // People Trindl Reeves joined Barney & Barney, San Diego, as a principal, responsible for the ongoing growth of Barney & Barney in San Diego and Orange County. She will be based in San Diego. Reeves, formerly...

Healthcare liability moves beyond hospitals to specialized facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable” and in the health care arena that especially rings true. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Risk mixing and matching with miscellaneous health care facilities

Jul 3 2006 // Someone once said “change is inevitable,” and in the health care arena that truism rings a bell. It wasn’t so long ago that the only place a person would go for immediate treatment was the emergency room...

Backstage: Risk management planning for one of the nation’s largest festivals

Jun 19 2006 // It is ten days before your client’s multi-million dollar, world famous, music festival. You receive news that a CAT 5 hurricane is heading right for the event. If this storm hits, it will wash away equipment, fans...

Lloyd’s forecast for Northeast: Storms, global warming threats are real

Jun 19 2006 // The prospect of another nasty hurricane season has everyone in the insurance industry braced for a white-knuckle ride. The spectre of a hurricane hitting a major Northeast population center is hardly the stuff of Hollywood...

A tale of two New Orleans hotels

Jun 19 2006 // If there’s anything to be learned from last year’s hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, it’s that the value of relationships before, during and after a claim is immeasurable, according to Mel Bangs,...

Beecher Carlson Expands Risk Services/Captive Operations in Denver

Jun 13 2006 // Beecher Carlson, an insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm, has expanded its risk services/captive operations with the appointment of Richard (Dick) Huntington as senior vice President and Carol Riggs as...

Market trends downward slightly; habitational still a challenge

Jun 5 2006 // After the recent hard markets, rates for professional liability insurance for architects and engineers are beginning to see some relief. Even so — despite 10 percent to 20 percent drops in professional liability...

Multi-family housing: How to slow the A&E claims flow

Jun 5 2006 // Would architects or engineers accept a fee of $70,000 knowing that it would result in a $1 million loss? Probably not, yet that’s exactly what they are likely to be faced with when designing a multi-family use...

Risk managers report cost of risk down in 2005

Jun 5 2006 // The commercial insurance industry remained a buyers’ market in 2005, and shows no signs of hardening any time soon, according to the 2005 Annual Benchmark Survey from the Risk and Insurance Management Society...