Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
For Retail Risk Managers, Workplace Violence and Staff Turnover Proving Top Challenges
Apr 18 2005 // Workplace violence and staff turnover are cited by risk managers in the retail industry as among their biggest challenges to effectively managing their workers’ compensation exposures. According to a recent study...
AEC Firms Can Learn from May Webcast
Apr 12 2005 // Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms have seen an 88% increase in the cost of professional liability coverage in the last three years, according to a recent survey by Zweig-White. To help architects...
Risk Management Symposium Set for Chicago May 1-3
Apr 8 2005 // Enron had a chief risk officer, so what went wrong? Learn firsthand from a group of experts representing the insurance, financial, consulting, and academic communities how to design, build, and manage an effective, value...
Walenta Named to Texas Risk Management Board
Mar 29 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently named Ronald J. Walenta, of Dallas, to a six-year term on the Board of Directors of the Texas State Office of Risk Management. Walenta has been involved in risk management consulting, claims...
Research and Markets Offers Catastrophe Risk and Reinsurance Analysis
Mar 23 2005 // Dublin-based Research and Markets has announced the addition of Catastrophe Risk and Reinsurance: A Country Risk Management Perspective to their offering. See: http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c14308. The report...
Crawford & Company U.S. Quality Award Program Honors Employee Performance
Mar 23 2005 // Crawford & Company, of Atlanta has announced its 2004 winners of its U.S. Quality Award Program. The program recognizes Crawford employees and branches for consistent outstanding performance in producing a quality...
Bothwell to Manage Beecher Carlson in Boston
Mar 7 2005 // Beecher Carlson Holdings, Inc. has opened a Boston area office and appointed Robert J. Bothwell to lead the office as managing director in addition to heading the company’s National Energy Practice. The firm also...
FleetRisk Announces Analytics Center; Dupre’ Tansport to Test Pilot Project
Feb 16 2005 // FleetRisk Advisors of Alpharetta, Ga. has launched its Transportation Risk Analytics Center and Dupre’ Tansport LLC of Lafayette, La. will conduct a major pilot project using Fleet Risk’s TRAC service including...
Tillinghast Study: Insurers Welcome ERM Globally, but it Remains a Work in Progress
Feb 8 2005 // Insurers around the globe are making progress – quickly in some areas – with using an integrated risk and capital management approach to drive business decisions, according to the third biennial survey of risk...
MAKING SENSE OF RISK MANAGEMENT:
Feb 7 2005 // Aon is introducing a series of monthly risk management seminars in Oklahoma. The 2005 Oklahoma Business Risk Forums are aimed at executives involved in any aspect of the risk management process, including chief financial...
First Niagara Acquires Ithaca, N.Y. Agency
Feb 2 2005 // First Niagara Risk Management, Inc., the wholly-owned insurance subsidiary of First Niagara Bank , has reached an agreement to acquire the L.A. Lama Insurance Agency. The acquisition of the Ithaca-based agency, which has...
Aon to Hold Oklahoma Risk Management Seminars
Jan 27 2005 // Aon announced it is introducing a series of forums in Oklahoma aimed at helping make sense of the increasingly complex risk management environment. Aon designed the 2005 Oklahoma Business Risk Forums to offer participants...
Oil & Gas Industry Insurance & Risk Management Conference to be Held in Houston
Jan 20 2005 // Strategic Research Institute announced it will hold the 2nd Annual Insurance & Risk Management for the Oil & Gas Industry conference Feb. 28-March 1, 2005, at the Renaissance Houston in Houston, Texas. What are...
Car Buyers Get No-Charge Insurance in Volkswagen-Nationwide Pilot Program Based on Car Model Risk
Jan 3 2005 // A Long Island insurance think-tank has licensed Volkswagen of America Inc. to offer the industry’s first no- charge insurance policy to customers who purchase or lease selected models during a three-month test in...
Restaurants put risk management on the menu
Jan 2 2005 // The restaurant marketplace is becoming more complex than ever with food safety, marketing dominance by the chains and globalization on the minds of owners. Also, frivolous lawsuits against restaurants abound, so it...
Pa. Wildlife Officials Quash Coyote-Deer Risk Management Rumor
Dec 29 2004 // Did you hear the one about the insurance agent and the coyote? So have the Pennsylvania Game Commission, wildlife agencies in other states and insurers. They all dismiss as urban legend claims that insurance companies and...
St. Paul Travelers Risk Control Site
Dec 20 2004 // St. Paul Travelers announced the debut of a new Web site housing more than 1,400 risk management resources for customers, agents and brokers. Resources are said to include the latest research reports and news on safety...
ASHRAM Recognizes Popp as Distinguished Fellow
Dec 13 2004 // The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) recently awarded Pamela L. Popp, vice president of the Healthcare Practice for McQueary Henry Bowles Troy L.L.P. (MHBT) in Dallas and Fort Worth, the designation...
Swiss Re “Risk Perception” Report Finds Accelerating Changes Complicate Risk Management
Dec 10 2004 // A new report in Swiss Re’s “Risk Perception” series finds that change is “continually accelerating, possible consequences tend to be greater and increasing uncertainty is rendering risks less...
Ill Winds Blow but the Ship Remains on Course
Dec 6 2004 // This year’s annual report on the reinsurance industry is a bit later than usual. It seems that beginning in August the voyage was interrupted by some serious storms, and it was hard to catch up to the boat as it...
