I once asked a colleague who had worked for multiple insurers why some carriers worked hard on fighting fraud through investments in technology and Special Investigative Units, while other insurers chose to do little if anything to combat fraud.

Average rate increases for commercial and personal lines continued their slow ascent through August, rising an additional point over the prior month, says MarketScout.

Electric utilities are highly complex and technical businesses, and their risk managers face a daunting array of threats to employees, customers and physical assets.

In the last four years, Terry Nay, director of safety & operational excellence at UNS Energy Corp., has taken a three-pronged approach to worker health, emphasizing: safety-leadership training; a behavioral-based safety program within the workforce; and a safety-process auditing system.