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News & Analysis

Editor's Choice Stories

Broadening the Risk, Increasing the Yield

Special purchase insurers are skyrocketing in popularity because of attractive pricing for purchasers and higher yields for investors.

Companies Lack Supply Chain Visibility

More clarity into the supply-chain network below Tier-1 suppliers, lets organizations understand their exposures and allows them to better mitigate those risks.

Legal Spotlight: May 2013

A roundup of legal decisions impacting the industry.

More News & Analysis

Oklahoma Tornado Devastates Moore, Kills Dozens (Huffington Post)

UN: $2.5 Trillion in Disaster Losses Since 2000 (ABC News)

The Dark Side of Generic Drugs (Fortune magazine)

Why Don't Risk Management Programs Work? (Network World)

Japanese Nuclear Reactor Is Said To Sit on Fault Line (New York Times)

More Editor's Choice Stories

Risk & Insurance Editors' Spotlight

Most Dangerous Emerging Risks 2013

Increased global economic connectedness means that we are seeing a constantly expanding world of risk. Cyberrisk, climate change, wildfires and the lack of effective antibiotics have all made this year's list of the Most Dangerous Emerging Risks and read our fictional scenarios and expert analysis. Click for MORE

Risk Scenario: Sick Building Blues

In our latest Risk Scenario, a property owner whose rental property sits on a brownfield learns some hard lessons when environmental issues impact the employees in one of his buildings. If he would have acted more quickly, he might have averted what now look like substantial legal problems. READ THE SCENARIO or click for MORE

Features

Building a Global Platform

Ironshore's Kevin Kelley is in it for the long run. MORE

Fixing the Pharmacy Conundrum

Risk & Insurance® and Healthcare Solutions convene a pharmacy benefit management roundtable discussion over breakfast in Atlanta. MORE

Tracking Travel

The number of students traveling abroad doubled in the past 15 years, leaving school administrators with plenty to worry about. MORE

A World of Opportunity

This issue of Risk & Insurance® is the first in which I humbly bear the title of Editor-In-Chief. MORE

Consolidation Needed

Solar panel bankruptcies are challenging risk managers in the field. MORE

More Features

Columnists

Workers' Comp
By Peter Rousmaniere
The Big Fade

Workers' compensation tells us to use a century old solution to reduce the toll of work injury and death. MORE

Peter Rousmaniere's Past Columns

Risk Management
By Joanna Makomaski
Who is the Real Gambler?

Cheering for the underdog is a big risk and yet we all do it, don't we? MORE

Joanna Makomaski's Past Columns

Technology
By Ara Trembly
Technological Obsolescence

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Dell Inc. is citing bleak prospects for its business and for the personal-computer industry overall as it makes its case for accepting a $24.4 billion offer to go private. MORE

Ara Trembly's Past Columns

Adjuster X
By Adjuster X
Big Comeback

On his first day on the job, tragedy struck Ronald Matthews. MORE

Adjuster X's Past Columns

Point/Counterpoint

Should Cyber Ransoms be Paid?

To pay or not to pay. That is the question.

More Point/Counterpoint

Special Reports

Claims

Patient-centered approach and mandating controls of interstate operability could be keys to reducing abuse and decreasing recovery times.

More Special Reports

In-Depth Series

Renewable Energy

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.

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