crisis management

• KRE Insurance Adapts to Increasingly Global World, Sophisticated Criminals

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 3, 2012

  Kidnap, Ransom and Extortion insurance coverage is much more than the name implies. The coverage has become broad—one shaped by competition and a growing need as we become a more globalized, high-tech society within many areas of political or economic strife.

• Manufacturers & Food Safety: New Law Causes Spike in Product Recall Submissions

  By Dave Lenckus  |  March 8, 2012

  Any company involved in food production saw its Product Recall risk greatly magnified last year with the enactment of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), says Louis Lubrano, New York-based senior vice president of global crisis management for Liberty International Underwriters (LIU).

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  Coverage Trends in Manufacturing’s “Big 3” Risks: Workers’ Comp, Product Recall and Supply Chains

  By Dave Lenckus  |  February 9, 2012

  With Workers’ Compensation, the big shift is the medical component of costs exceeding indemnity costs. With Supply Chain risk, it’s the realization that supply and upstream customer chains can be far more fragile than anticipated in a catastrophe. And for food processors, the emerging challenge is a food-safety law that...

• LIU Property Operation Westward Bound as Companies ‘Right-Size’

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 9, 2011

  Liberty International Underwriters is “not trying to time the market” with the opening of an excess and surplus property operation on the West Coast, said Michael Carr, senior vice president of LIU E&S property.

• Applied Systems, R-T Specialty acquisitions; new policies at Venture, K&B and Travelers - Around the Industry

  By Staff Writer  |  April 6, 2011

  Hires at Iroquois and Edgewood Partners; Arbella's hunger campaign

• GCube Underwriting expands solar property coverage, WKF&C offers earthquake insurance coverage- Around the Industry

  February 15, 2011

  News from Admiral Insurance Co., CIAB, Lockton, Data Risk, Overby-Seawell, Markel Specialty, Health Plan One, Marsh & McLennan, Greenwood International, Zurich, GCube Underwriting, RLI Corp., WKF&C, BMS Group and McGowan Cos.

• INSURANCE IT ALL-STARS 2008

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 10, 2010

  "We don't reflect on [the compliments] very much," says Ray Voelker, CIO at Progressive Insurance. "The way not to be good at technology would be to say, 'Hey, we're really good at this, so let's sit

• Egg Recall To Trigger Contaminated Products Coverage

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 26, 2010

  As about a half a billion eggs have been recalled due to possible salmonella infection, it is likely recall contamination insurance coverage has been triggered.

• Fireman's Fund launches new crisis management coverage

  By Staff Writer  |  April 13, 2010

  Fireman's Fund launched new crisis management coverages for admitted commercial umbrella policies to help companies during a crisis situation.

• RIMS 2010 Annual Conference & Exhibition

  By Eric Gilkey, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 7, 2010

  Contingent commissions, climate change, crisis management, global risk, and pending legislation will be just a few of the many topics covered at the Risk and Insurance Management Society's 2010 annual conference and exhibition.