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A warming planet is forcing some carriers and reinsurers to re-examine limits and exclusions to existing policies, and others to rethink some of their products entirely.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded utilities and energy companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Drivers are longing for the days of cheap gasoline, and oil companies are pining for the days of cheap insurance. Those days are gone, swept away by hurricanes. Now the oil industry faces paying much more for much less when they go to buy windstorm coverage for their offshore rigs and platforms.

The underwriting status quo in the marine and energy insurance market is sinking. Parts of it already lie in tatters at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The time has come for a new model to float to the surface.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded oil & gas services companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The pace of global warming seems glacial compared with this red-hot trend: The total value of weather risk management instruments spiked 83 percent last year over the previous year, according to a recent survey.

A listing of some of the nation's top hydroelectric utilities, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

America needs more natural gas. Other countries want to sell it to us. It's getting it here and into the pipelines that presents the risk, some of it physical but much of it political.

A listing of some of the nation's top oil and gas companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Managers and executives of energy companies in tune with risk can enjoy participating in the following organizations:

"The energy insurance market has a reputation for volatility. ..."

The most recent "Drill Bits" newsletter from Marsh's Global Marine and Energy Practice focuses on the very relevant topics of energy, globalization and the Asian market.