Rebounding Economy Spurs Growth in Cargo, Supply Chain Risks October 22, 2012 By Stephanie K. Jones A slow trend toward economic recovery in the U.S. may mean good news/bad news for insurance agents and brokers who...
Aon Report Finds Loss of Company Reputation Linked to Crisis Events October 4, 2012 According to the Aon-sponsored Reputation Review 2012, a report recently issued by Oxford Metrica, an independent analytics and advisory firm,...
Lloyd’s Analyzes Repercussions of Thai Flood Losses a Year Later October 3, 2012 Lloyd’s has published an analysis of the floods that hit Thailand in October 2011, which notes that “after weeks of...
Insurer Must Pay Missouri Firm $11M in Supply Chain Interruption Case September 30, 2012 A federal jury ordered an insurance company to pay $11 million to a Joplin, Mo., company for damages caused by...
Re/insurers Increasingly Less Relevant to Global Economy: XL CEO McGavick September 17, 2012 By Charles E. Boyle XL’s CEO Mike McGavick doesn’t mince words when it comes to looking at the big, and not very pretty, picture...
Drought, Low Export Demand Sap Midwest Economy September 5, 2012 An August survey suggests that the continuing drought and lessening export demand for U.S. products are among the drains on...
AIR Expands Cat Risk Engineering Program for Supply Chain Risk Quantification April 18, 2012 AIR Worldwide announced that it has “expanded its suite of Catastrophe Risk Engineering (CRE) solutions to help quantify, mitigate, and...
TT Club Finds Majority of Supply Chain Claims Caused by Human Error April 3, 2012 An analysis from London-based TT Club, which provides insurance and related risk management services for the international transport and logistics...
Aon’s New ‘Political Risk Map’ Focuses on ‘Arab Spring’; Global Threats February 8, 2012 By Charles E. Boyle Aon’s latest “Political Risk Map” focuses on the implications of the uprisings in the Middle East, collectively referred to as...
WillisWire Bloggers Reveal Their Top Emerging Risks for 2012 January 24, 2012 By Charles E. Boyle A bulletin from Willis Group Holdings identifies 18 “emerging risks,” as causing increasing concern among the world’s insurance community. Willis...