Loss Control

I'm known for my penchant for writing about unusual topics I find interesting. So it was no surprise to my co-workers when I became fascinated with the insurance issues for medical marijuana providers.

Modelers Risk Management Solutions (RMS), AIR Worldwide and EQECAT have responded to recent comments about their near-term models by Karen Clark, developer of the first hurricane model.

With the nation's legislative landscape dominated by health care reform and relatively stable workers' compensation rates in 2010, workers' compensation fell off the radar screen.

With mass government cutbacks to schools, public parks and other departments being announced every day, there seems to be no end in sight how deep these cuts can go. That’s why I was especially interested in an announcement from California Governor Jerry Brown's office.

The planned revisions of a catastrophe model could cause interesting changes to the way the industry prices its property insurance, according to executives at the Property and Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City.

RIMS' newly elected president Mr. Scott Clark discusses how his job as risk and benefits officer for Miami-Dade School District prepared him to take over the Society, his risk-related successes, legislative measures that RIMS will pursue in 2011, and his goals for the Society�s membership.