Corporate Risk

Scientists are finding evidence that man-made climate change has raised the risks of individual weather events, such as floods or heatwaves, marking a big step towards pinpointing local costs and ways to adapt to freak conditions.

Thus far, 2012 has been a revealing year for risk managers with regard to what the C-Suite expects of them and their ever-evolving (mostly expanding) roles. Here we offer a look back at NUs top stories in the first half of the year, addressing the major concerns and challenges of...

Traditional reinsurance poses no threat to global financial stability, but the industry should still be closely watched because of its peripheral involvement in potentially risky activities, regulators said on Wednesday.

Traditional reinsurance poses no threat to global financial stability, but the industry should still be closely watched because of its peripheral involvement in potentially risky activities, regulators said on Wednesday.

Creating the years biggest-budget blockbuster films means that actors and film crews must take some big-budget risks, and it is up to insurers to guarantee that in the event of some mishap producers and financiers will have financial protection when production doesnt go as planned.

Reinsurers say companies have suffered intensifying weather-related impacts in the past three years, but fewer than a third of those companies are actively responding to the risk, increasing the likelihood that companies will be unprepared to deal with unimaginable environmental coverage and loss costs.