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By Ken Brownlee, CPCU |
March 27, 2012
Exploring risk management lessons from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other infamous catastrophes. Can common sense be legislated?
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October 13, 2011
In addition to the company profiles featured in the Aug. 22/29 issue of National Underwriter, the risk managers from these award-winning companies participated in a roundtable discussion at the Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference in Orlando. Here’s what they had to say.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
August 4, 2011
As both the price of copper and unemployment rates rise, the increase in thefts of this and other metals looms large for insurers and risk managers as vacant buildings and construction sites are being stripped of wiring, pipes and other copper-containing elements.
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By Ken Brownlee, CPCU |
July 26, 2011
Disasters, calamities, tragedies, or catastrophes—no matter what we call them, these events happen on a regular basis, and more recent occurrences tend to cancel out memories of the older ones.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 7, 2011
See what Robert H. Benmosche, president and chief executive officer of AIG, had to say at the Bermuda Captive Conference in this exclusive interview with PropertyCasualty360.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 11, 2011
There is a lot of anticipation surrounding the Government Accountability Office’s investigation of some states’ interpretation of the federal Liability Risk Retention Act. For months the GAO has been questioning risk retention group owners and managers, seeking comments on the treatment received from various states.
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By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com |
February 21, 2011
NU P&C’s Risk Management Editor Caroline McDonald reviews some of the tough choices municipalities face between balanced budgets and cuts in needed services and people, going on to review some smaller cuts of unnecessary spending, which governors of two large states are proposing.
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By Staff Writer |
January 4, 2011
Of all the cities to flounder so badly in a snowstorm, New York is not the one I would have picked. Even though it happened way back in 1969, New Yorkers still talk about the poor handling of a major snowstorm...Read more at www.NoRiskZone.com.
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By Staff Writer |
December 22, 2010
The good news is that Summit Business Media's property & casualty publications are in the process of creating a mega site, bringing together the websites of each magazine, observes Caroline McDonald. Read more at www.NoRiskZone.com.
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By Staff Writer |
November 30, 2010
While some people are debating the existence of climate change, reinsurers aren't taking any chances, observes Caroline McDonald in her blog. Read more at www.NoRiskZone.com.