The captive management firm USA Risk Group, based in Montpelier, Vt., said the EIM took the step to give its U.S. members more access to the program and to improve service. The captive will be run fro

Businesses often have flawed contingency plans or none at all to deal with a business disaster such as the recent outbreak of E. coli infections linked to Taco Bell restaurants, according to a risk ma

Buyers burdened with more exposures to bottom line and stock

A year after its first report, "Pandemic Influenza: Managing the risks of an invisible threat," which called on businesses to wake up to the potential risks of a pandemic, Aon released "Pandemic Influ

"Risk managers are constantly in contact with us, looking for information about how to start, how to further develop, how to do this piece and that piece, and it's being done a-la-carte, if you will,"

The brokerage said that through the close of trading on Friday, it had repurchased 23.1 million shares for $861 million since November 2005, when it announced a stock repurchase program of up to $1 bi

Insurance prices falling, but captives give buyers clout on tougher exposures, retentions

Much growth potential revealed for 'Global 500,' including among U.S.