External Affairs Committee

• Pending Bill Could Raise Rates

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com, Mark E. Ruquet  |  November 17, 2011

  Terry Fleming, director of the Division of Risk Management, Montgomery County, Md., and immediate past president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, cautions that the Neal Bill, introduced by Rep. Richard Neal, D-MA, and Senator Robert Menendez, D-NJ, could mean hardening rates in the future.

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  RIMS President Sets Goals for Society

  By Eric Gilkey, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 17, 2011

  RIMS President Scott Clark discusses his plans for the organization, the challenges risk professionals face, and how the perceived value of risk managers is changing in 2011.

• N.Y. Action On Broker Contingent Fees Called Double Hit For Buyers

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 18, 2010

  New York State officials' action to let big insurance brokerages resume taking contingent commissions, and to ease a rule for reporting such fees is a big blow to insurance buyers, said a trade group representative.