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Whether it's solar, wind or hydro, renewable energy continues to be a growth market. This three-part series will look at how risk management is evolving in those sectors and how underwriters view the cost of risk.

As big data, mobile technology and cloud computing push the capabilities of what risk management can do, new risks and opportunities to harness the convergence of these technologies arise as well.

Nothing frustrates workers' comp and disability managers like workers' comp coverage. Part of it is because this commercial insurance line is so heavily regulated. After a period of softening prices, rates turned hard earlier this year, leaving many managers looking to improve the way they manage their programs.

We often talk about what can go wrong in claims management, but there are cases where efficient, engaged work by the insured helps to create a good outcome. The example of how Lambert-St. Louis Airport reacted to an April 2011 tornado is a case in point.

As global corporations press into China, Brazil and India, risk managers are reviewing their insurance programs covered by local insurance laws with a patchwork of restrictions about who is allowed to underwrite policies and how.

In three parts, we examine how managers with clear, concise data shed light on enterprise-level risks facing their organizations and help their boards make better, faster decisions. For risk managers who do it well, the value they bring earns them a seat at the executive table.

In this three part series we look at issues of a safer workplace, how employee benefits affect the employer and future trends and their effect on employers.

In the United States, companies rely on networks of providers who treat work-related injuries under contracts that control the cost of medical claims, but abroad you simply pay the bill.

In this three-part series, we examine how employers are managing employee benefits and trying to keep top talent as the recovery strengthens.

Our three-part series is based on the theme, "The Unintended Consequences of Reform." The series focuses on three large states that have attempted or are attempting to reform their workers' compensation system and the unintended consequences those reforms have produced or could produce for employers, insurers and third-party administrators.

In this series, we take a look at the major changes affecting risk management information systems and new technologies that are making it more affordable and accessible to a broader range of risk managers.

In this series, we take a look at what issues are affecting the professional liability market for attorneys. Lawyers are often the authors of complaints against defendants. Now, though, they are finding themselves the target of such complaints, in part because the plaintiffs hope to collect on attorneys' professional liability coverage.

Risk managers often rely on their third-party administrators (TPAs) to execute on everything from claims handling to policy administration. Here's a closer look at the value of the TPA.

We take an in-depth look in a three-part series at the kinds of fraud plaguing the workers' compensation system around the country, and the steps being taken to uncover it and prosecute the wrongdoers.

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the other numerous conflicts and training episodes around the globe, are returning to the U.S. workforce in growing numbers ... and with growing numbers of physical and behavioral impairments. It's a surge of issues that's likely to overcome employers unless they prepare now.