Baby boomers are expected to place greater demands on both the group health and workers’ comp industries due to comorbidities associated with advanced age.
How does a company go from a reputation as the industry standard for product safety to one that is deeply sullied by a continual stream of consumer complaints, product recalls and billions of dollars’ worth of lawsuits?
Small business owners can become risk management experts as much as anybody else. In fact, they’re probably more disposed to the discipline given their entrepreneurial spirit and vision.
Trying to forestall wildfire damage, PG&E willingly shut down service to customers. More of this, not less, is on the way, which makes business resiliency planning all the more important.
The new U.S. tax laws limit the percentage of a loss that insurers can write down for tax purposes. That’s one of four key factors that is leading to a hard market for commercial property insurance.
A veteran risk manager based in the UK gives Risk & Insurance readers his take on the impact of Brexit on Lloyds, the largest specialty insurance market in the world.
In our economy’s engine, capital is the fuel and insurance is the oxygen. How insurers pivot and manage their exposure to climate change could yet play a major role in reducing the threat.
What happens when foreign powers start holding U.S. companies liable for gun deaths suffered by their citizens on U.S. soil? A whole new area and era of risk exposure.
Malcolm Gladwell points out the human tendency to lock down on first and subsequent impressions of strangers. It’s a key risk management failure that can have dire consequences.
It is in the self-interest of the financial industry to address new risks brought about by climate change and to scale up the necessary investments to make our societies more resilient.
The biggest cyber weakness, as these authors so adroitly illuminate, is “between the monitor and the chair,” i.e., the human susceptibility to falling for a cyber scam.
Risk Insider Jack Hampton made a few discoveries while on vacation: One, driving across the Yukon was not a good idea. And two, risk management skills are handy when traveling.
Implementing a Medicare for All system would be challenging and may not have immediate results, but for the future’s sake, it could be just what the doctor ordered.