Latest Risk Management Headlines
All the headlines from our Risk Management Topic Page, ordered by recency.
22nd IRMI Construction Risk Conf. to be Held in San Diego, Nov. 11-14
Oct 7 2002 // The 22nd International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) Construction Risk Conference will take place Nov. 11 through Nov. 14, 2002, in San Diego. The three-and-a-half day conference is devoted exclusively to construction,...
CompManagement Buys Barron Risk
Oct 2 2002 // CompManagement Inc. of Greenwich, Conn. announced it has purchased Dallas-based Barron Risk Management, which provides workers’ compensation claims management, medical cost containment, safety and loss prevention,...
Hard Market Conditions Can Reward Good Risk Management Says Lloyd’s Chairman
Sep 30 2002 // Lloyd’s Chairman Sax Riley told an audience of 600 insurance professionals in Milan, Italy that the way in which business organizations manage the risks they face is becoming an increasingly important factor in the...
ACE Risk Management Creates New Excess Workers’ Comp Unit
Sep 19 2002 // ACE Risk Management (ARM), part of ACE USA, announced the creation of a new unit, ARM Excess Workers’ Compensation. The ARM Excess Workers’ Compensation unit offers risk managers and brokers the ability to...
RMS Unveils Game Theory-Based Terrorism Risk Model
Sep 19 2002 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), has launched its U.S. Terrorism Risk model, a model designed to assist property, workers’ compensation, and life insurers and reinsurers in quantifying the risk from catastrophic...
ACE Risk Management Forms New Custom Casualty Unit
Sep 4 2002 // ACE Risk Management (ARM), part of ACE USA, has created a new unit, ARM Custom Casualty. The ARM Custom Casualty unit will specialize in general and product liability coverages for insureds with challenging exposures. In...
Travelers Furnishes New CD To Construction Clients For One-Stop Risk Management
Aug 27 2002 // Travelers Property Casualty announced a new version of its “Construction Risk Management Tool Kit” CD-ROM, designed to help improve contractor clients’ loss experience. “We believe it to be one of...
IRMI Calls for Gary E. Bird Horizon Award Nominees
Aug 14 2002 // International Risk Management Institute (IRMI) is seeking nominees for this year’s Gary E. Bird Horizon Award, formerly known as the Construction Risk Management Best Practices Award, to be given at the upcoming 22nd...
PRIMA, AICPCU/IIA Agree to Become Educational Partners
Aug 14 2002 // The Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) and the American Institute for CPCU/Insurance Institute of America (the Institutes) are launching a joint project to market five of the Institute’s educational programs...
Watson Joins Ace’s N.Y. Office as VP Enterprise Risk Management
Aug 9 2002 // ACE Asset Management, Inc., a subsidiary of ACE Ltd., added Donald Watson as Vice President Enterprise Risk Management. Watson will be based in New York and his principal focus will be on the identification and...
ABD Adds Schaefer as VP, Enterprise Risk Management Services
Aug 7 2002 // California-based ABD Insurance and Financial Services, a provider of global risk management and employee benefits solutions, added John Schaefer to its Enterprise Risk Management Services Group. As vice president,...
Risk Retention-The Growing Role of the Alternative Market
Aug 5 2002 // How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and...
Alternative Markets Offer a Variety of Risk Management Options
Aug 5 2002 // How do I insure thee? Let me count the ways.” With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, that question’s become increasingly meaningful for risk managers, insurers, agents, brokers, consultants and...
Chubb Executive Urges Cooperation Between IT and Risk Management Depts.
Aug 1 2002 // An executive with a leading commercial insurer is urging information technology departments to share information regarding attacks on corporate Web sites and computer networks with risk managers and insurers. Without...
CRM Course an Option for CICS
Jul 8 2002 // Professionals seeking to attain Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation now have a new option. A Certified Risk Managers (CRM) course will now be accepted in place of one of the five CIC institutes and examinations...
CRM Course an Option for CICS
Jul 8 2002 // Professionals seeking to attain Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation now have a new option. A Certified Risk Managers (CRM) course will now be accepted in place of one of the five CIC institutes and examinations...
ACE Risk Management Unveils New Split Deductible Limit Workers’ Comp Product
Jun 18 2002 // ACE Risk Management, part of ACE USA, has introduced its new Split Deductible Limit(SM) Workers’ Compensation product. The product, designed to meet the needs of large Risk Management clients, is a flexible...
CRM Course an Option for CIC Designation
Jun 17 2002 // Professionals seeking to attain the designation of Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) now have a new option. The CIC designation, which is currently earned by completing five CIC institutes and examinations, will accept a...
RMS Provides Japan Earthquake Risk Analysis to Nissay Dowa, Swiss Re
May 31 2002 // Newark, California-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) announced that it has provided the risk analysis to Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co., Ltd. and its counterparty, Swiss Re in support of the Fujiyama Ltd. $70...
GE, XL To Offer Joint Risk Management Services
May 24 2002 // A new agreement between GE Global Asset Protection Services, a unit of GE’s Employers Re group, and XL Winterthur International (XLWI), a member of the XL Capital Ltd. group, aims to give risk managers access to...
