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Cyberliablity coverage under general liability, professional liability, or property policies are either very limited or even simply accidental.

Insurance considerations for energy industry risk managers engaged in natural gas extraction from shale formation.

Is your insurance broker equipped for today's fast-paced business world with access to modern-day tools to boost productivity?

When BC Transit Corp. offered to build an elevated train with no driver more then 20 years ago, insurers balked. Then British Columbia passed legislation permitting captives and that was the signal BC Transit's risk manager was looking for.

The Great Recession, which has taken a toll on risk management departments, has forced chief risk officers and managers to renew themselves and reorganize their departments.

This is the first of an annual report identifying emerging risks not on everyone's radar screen. Some are known risks with unanticipated outcomes that could be game changers if they occur.

Public risk management corruption cases grab their share of headlines. Is that because public sector risk managers are more corrupt or is it because they are exposed to more transparency?

Buyers look like they are returning to the market for program administrators, despite lower multiples and the soft market.

Mobile technology can advance the speed of claims resolution and loss analysis and tighten the control of risk management data.

As new liability risks are identified under the federal health reform law, premium dollars for the medical professional liability coverage will flow through healthcare captives domiciled in Vermont.

To nominate someone for the 2011 Reinsurance Power Broker® Awards, or to put yourself in the running, please download the application form here.

Carriers cannot succeed by having their back offices do their front-office jobs. Instead, the key to better agency relationships, more effective underwriting and more efficient processing is a 21st century front-office system.

In late February, catastrophe modeler RMS announced the official release of the new version of its U.S. hurricane model. It's been the talk of the property insurance world since. How will the new model--and others soon to come from RMS' competitors--affect property renewals and corporate insurance buyers?

Sophisticated urine analysis of employees on workers' comp could become a bulwark in the fight to control the epidemic use and abuse of narcotics.

Carsten W. Scheffel, head of the Americas for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty, is a tough competitor, a passionate boss, a loving father.