BMS placed the first electronic contract in the London Market via an iPad in January—a facultative property risk placed with the Catlin Syndicate.

With an eye towards jump-starting national momentum for reform, two House representatives from North Dakota and Kentucky led efforts to become the country’s first legislative bodies to approve a Surplus Lines Insurance Multistate Compliance Compact (SLIMPACT) this week.

With an eye towards jump-starting national momentum for reform, two House representatives from North Dakota and Kentucky led efforts to become the country’s first legislative bodies to approve a Surplus Lines Insurance Multistate Compliance Compact (SLIMPACT) this week.

Natural gas exploration companies and public risk managers have a number of issues to consider—from environmental risks of the extraction process to risk transfer—before embracing the process of hydraulic fracturing.

Despite signs of recovery in the economy, the near future looks grim for the public sector. A lag-time between economic recovery and its impact on the public sector means the situation has not yet turned for public entities.

The former director of the District of Columbia’s captive insurance program will return to D.C. as commissioner of the Department of Securities, Insurance and Banking, starting Feb. 14.

It’s critical that risk managers with staff and locations abroad make sure their contingency plans are up to date and workable, says the risk manager of NYU, who demonstrated his skills last week following continuing troubles in Egypt.

A company may not retaliate against an employee by firing a third party, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week, giving employees more backing to sue for retaliation.