Since the 1970 enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, workplace injuries are sharply down, but compliance remains spotty and easily preventable deaths continue, according to a report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

The financial services industry, including insurance, has made strides in the two years since the financial crisis to incorporate enterprise risk management into decision-making, Towers Watson found in its 2010 ERM survey.

While mergers and acquisitions activity has been more talk than action for the Bermuda market lately, A.M. Best said conditions are ripe for business to pick up in this area.

At a time when experienced health care professionals are in short supply and budgets are under pressure, safety hazards in the health care industry are putting employees at risk, according to an industry report.

Many companies are unknowingly vulnerable to data leakage, phishing attacks, trojans or advance persistent threats, according to a new report from Lloyd's and technology company HP.

Since the 1970 enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, workplace injuries are sharply down, but compliance remains spotty and easily-preventable deaths continue, according to a Workers Compensation Research Institute report.

Aggregate losses from weather-related natural catastrophes since 1980 now total $1.6 trillion and insured losses are increasing an average of 11 percent per year, Munich Re said in a press report.

While some people are debating the existence of climate change, reinsurers aren’t taking any chances. They are doing a tremendous amount of research and modeling ...