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Solid enterprise risk management was behind one firm’s recovery from the financial downturn, while another long-established outfit is just allowing the concept to percolate within its operation....

To say that the U.S. economy is caught between a rock and a hard place would be putting it mildly, meaning commercial insurers will have to fight for every premium dollar while battling to keep their loss ratios under control....

Facing shrinking resources, an uncertain economy as well as changing political and regulatory landscapes, risk managers might be forced to reassess their particular captive insurance solutions, a new white paper by ACE suggests....

The common perception is that a captive insurer or risk retention group entering rehabilitation has hit the skids and is on its way out, but the opposite is sometimes true, according to a captive management company....

While globalization has brought many benefits to businesses, companies need to spend more time studying the new and emerging risks involved and planning for low-probability events, Lloyd’s warns....

More organizations are going global and depending on outsourcing and international supply chains to get projects completed on schedule and within budget......

New legislation and structuring for captives in a number of domiciles has made formation of captive facilities—once limited to large global organizations—attractive to smaller companies as well....

I have read with interest NU's numerous articles related to the back and forth between groups which disavow contingent fee arrangements while defending the practice of brokers and agents accepting this form of compensation....

Risk managers ranked FM Global first in handling claims in a recent Greenwich Associates survey, and FM Global was one of four winners of the 2010 Greenwich Claims Excellence Awards....

Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) President Terry Fleming said his group is helping guide risk managers on how to prohibit brokers from accepting contingent fees on their accounts and assure full disclosure about compensation from carriers....