Christmas isn't just about the perfect gift anymore for Ralph Parker, a risk-management professional who sees the celebratory season as being fraught with risk and exposure.
Parker, of course, is the fictional nine-year-old character rom the 1983 movie, “A Christmas Story,” based on the writings of humorist Jean Shepherd.
Today, however, Parker has been summoned by Lockton Cos. in its newly released white paper, “Ralphie's Risk Management Story: An Insurance Perspective on the Holiday Classic,” as a modern-day risk manager to highlight the many—albeit humorous—risks of his youthful Christmas back in his fictional home town of Hohman, Indiana.
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