The Fairfax, Va.-based Public Entity Risk Institute (PERI) announced recipients yesterday of its 2009 PERISHIP Dissertation Fellowships in hazards, risks and disasters, awarded to five doctoral program students.

The June 15 deadline is looming for risk managers to submit an entry for the third annual National Underwriter "Award For Excellence In Workers' Compensation Risk Management," sponsored by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

A federal bankruptcy court has sided with Travelers Insurance Company over an attempt by an insured to reach a settlement with asbestos claimants without the approval of the carrier in a scheme the court said could financially benefit the insured.

London-based insurance broker Jardine Lloyd Thompson Ltd. is advising company directors to take steps to mitigate risk of exposure to the current swine flu pandemic and check their directors and officers liability.