While most people try and avoid risk, Caroline McDonald is up to her neck in it, covering risk management, loss control, safety and alternative risk-transfer news and trends for National Underwriter.
Driven by recent market events, the insurance industry is increasing its focus on integrating enterprise risk management into its day-to-day activities--a movement that is creating new challenges for corporate insurance risk managers.
According to the Insurity/Microsoft Millennials in Insurance Survey 2008, nearly 60 percent of our employees are older than age 45. Between now and 2014, the U.S. property-casualty industry must fill almost 100,000 underwriting and claims positions.
With businesses scrambling to survive as the recession dampens revenues, freezes credit and stalls growth, employee theft may serve as an increasing drag on profitability that risk managers cannot afford to ignore.
Vermont Captive Insurance Association President Molly Lambert will be leaving VCIA to take a post as state director for rural development for Vermont and New Hampshire at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe modeler Risk Management Solutions said last year's severe weather season can be expected to occur every four-to-five years.
When a risk manager loses their job in this brutal economy, there are ways for those who are laid off to land on their feet more quickly than others in similar distress.