Corporate Risk

• Brown & Brown E&S Professional Liability Combined Under ECC

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 18, 2013

  Insurance broker Brown & Brown says its E&S professional liability products will now be marketed and sold under the ECC Insurance Brokers Inc. brand.

• Aon Interactive Map Lets Businesses Measure Employees’ Risks Abroad

  By Staff Writer  |  June 11, 2013

  WorldAware Solutions, Aon Risk Solution’s travel-risk management platform, has been upgraded with an interactive map that helps companies visualize the intersection of their employees abroad and the risks of their geographic locations.

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  Guy Carpenter's Lamm-Tennant Chosen APIW Insurance Woman of the Year

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 7, 2013

  Joan Lamm-Tennant has been chosen as 2013’s Insurance Woman of the Year by the Association of Professional Insurance Women.

• Fuel Leak Risk Causes International Recall on Ford Vehicles

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  June 4, 2013

  Ford is recalling 465,000 vehicles worldwide resulting from complaints about fuel leaks that can pose a fire hazard on several 2013 model year cars.

• NYSE Roundtable: Officials Talk Lessons Learned from Sandy

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 3, 2013

  Superstorm Sandy is profoundly reshaping the approach New York City officials and business executives are taking to storm risk, and they devoted a day in downtown Manhattan on the eve of the Atlantic hurricane season to discuss plans to deal with that exposure in the future.

• New York Orders Insurers to Reveal Data Security Measures

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 29, 2013

  New York’s insurance regulator has sent letters to 31 of the state’s largest insurance companies to find out the steps they are taking to keep data safe from cyber threats.

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  Aon: 44% of Nations Have Identifiable Terrorism Risk

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 17, 2013

  The risk of terrorism is having an increasing impact on global organizations. See which nations have improving and worsening outlooks for terrorism risk.

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  $45M Global Bank Heist Could Complicate Cyber-Liability Market; Impact Other Coverages

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 13, 2013

  Experts say liability for the theft could fall on the processors of the debit cards used to perpetrate the crime, and make it difficult for other financial institutions to get cyber insurance coverage.

• Banks in Cyber Heist Face Uncertainty in Getting Money Back

  By Joseph Ax, Reuters  |  May 13, 2013

  Two banks hit in a $45 million ATM heist face an uncertain path in trying to recover their losses, says financial, insurance and legal experts.

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  Authorities Launch Criminal Investigation of West Fertilizer Explosion

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 10, 2013

  A criminal investigation has been launched into the West, Texas fertilizer plant that exploded last month.

• Slate for World Risk Day Announced

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 10, 2013

  World Risk Day, a virtual conference that invites risk leaders from around the world to present industry knowledge, has announced its speaker lineup.

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  RMS CEO: New Risk Management Platform to 'Crush Latency'

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 9, 2013

  Risk Management Solutions has unveiled a new, open platform it says will enable insurers to manage models and exposures in minutes rather than months.

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  Fireman’s Fund Highlights Historical Risks to Celebrate 150th Anniversary

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  May 7, 2013

  Fireman’s Fund is marking its 150th anniversary with a traveling exhibit of vintage artifacts that link the company’s underwritten policies to some of the nation’s most important moments, from great disasters to the early days of movies and aviation.

• Ace’s ESIS Expands Globally

  By Anya Khalamayzer  |  April 29, 2013

  Ace Group has opened twelve regional management hubs for ESIS; a risk-management product it launched in 2008 for multinational organizations in the America, Europe and Asia.

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  W.R. Berkley Cos. Files Suit Against West Fertilizer Owner for Negligence

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 24, 2013

  Subsidiaries of W.R. Berkley have filed a subrogation suit against the owner of the West, Texas fertilizer plant that exploded April 17.

• RIMS: Strategic Risk Management Has Room to Grow

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 23, 2013

  Executives see risk management as a significant and desired role in an organization, but a study shows the role hasn’t yet tapped into its full potential to grow enterprises and strengthen their bottom lines.