About the Author
Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com
Bryant Rousseau is Editor in Chief of National Underwriter P&C, and Group Editorial Director for Summit Business Media’s Property & Casualty Insurance Network. He may be reached at brousseau@sbmedia.com.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 21, 2012
Bill Pritchard, president of Beacon Hill Associates—a wholesale broker specializing exclusively in environmental-insurance solutions for commercial insureds—discusses emerging risks in this space, pricing and the new business opportunities presented by standard contractors.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
PC360 visits the insurance-research labs at a trio of major carriers: Chubb, FM Global and Liberty Mutual. While on site, we witnessed explosions, earthquakes, flammable-liquid fires, treacherous test tracks and the awesome force of hurricane winds.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
When people think of the work done at insurance companies, they probably picture actuaries and underwriters sitting at desks and crunching numbers.
But at some insurers, research labs, staffed by highly trained scientists and engineers, play a vital if rarely seen role in discovering ways to reduce losses caused by...
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
From the perspective of a magazine editor, the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s annual meeting is the gift that keeps on giving.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
Setting fires in the workplace is frowned upon by most employers, but at Chubb Insurance it’s an activity that’s not only actively encouraged—it’s actually an essential part of the company’s profit picture.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 20, 2012
While it may lack the twists and turns of the test tracks used by Porsche and Ferrari, Liberty Mutual’s “skid pan” at its Research Institute for Safety still sees a lot of stomach-churning driving—and the three-acre automotive test area employs a lot of serious science to help make roads safer...
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 12, 2012
Welcome to our annual RIMS issue, where we dedicate an extra helping of pages to risk management to coincide with the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s yearly conference and exhibition—which is
taking place this week in Philadelphia.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 12, 2012
As the head of the risk-management department at NYU, one of the country’s largest private institutions of higher learning, Michael Liebowitz faces an incredible array of risks every day—many of which never crop up in Corporate America.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 10, 2012
PC360 spends a day with Michael Liebowitz, director of insurance and risk management at New York University, to explore the wide range of risks he manages under one roof.
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By Bryant Rousseau, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 5, 2012
Each newspaper in the country in the last week or so has issued its annual early-spring prediction of where Major League Baseball teams are going to finish this year in their respective divisions (disappointing to see a lot of fourth-place picks for the Red Sox—I’m seeing a World Series win).
