Public Sector Risk

The most significant threat we face is that to our cyber security, according to former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.

When Guy Carpenter employees were finally allowed access into Sandy-ravaged areas in winter 2012, they spent nearly a month assessing the damage. Here is the worst of what they found.

Louisiana municipalities are increasing chlorine levels in public water systems to combat a brain-eating amoeba, but legal experts warn that liabilty issues arising from this strategy may be excluded from insurance coverages

More than half of New Yorkers expect the Big Apple to be bruised by another Sandy-sized storm within the next two decades, a Swiss Re survey shows.

Although the upcoming Halloween holiday is all fun and games, scary risks are more trick than treat.

Emergency-response managers from most major cities say they need more federal funds and information than they currently receive if they are to properly respond to a terrorist attack involving a radiological dispersal device or an improvised nuclear device.