RIMS

Perspective | Active Shooter Incidents Are Random and Unpredictable. Active Shooter Training Should Be Anything But

A mass shooting during RIMS underscores the need for employee training amidst the ongoing tide of violence.

13 Questions for Aon’s Timothy Fletcher

RIMS Risk Manager of the Year Theresa Severson on Why Outreach to Young Professionals Is Essential for the Industry

In Conversation with Risk & Insurance: Sentry Insurance’s Greg Larson on How AI and Text Mining Can Quickly Identify Biopsychosocial Barriers to Recovery

In Conversation with Risk & Insurance: Gallagher Bassett’s Mike Hessling Discusses the ‘Family and Friends’ Approach to Building Talent Organically

Recently in RIMS

Sharing Knowledge and Experience

Learning from peers and professional organizations aids professional and personal success.

Manage Expectations, Manage Reputation

Molding the expectations of customers and shareholders through ERM is critical to reputation protection.

Captives See Growth for Terrorism Risk

Captives can cover risks excluded from conventional terrorism policies and the potential gap left by the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.

Looking to Bridge the Gap

Many risk managers use a retrospective approach to risks, when they should be analyzing where the next risks are coming from.

Kick-Off With a Bang

Risk management went from talk to action at the RIMS opening festivities.

The Battle for New Orleans: And 99 Other Cities

The 100 Resilient Cities initiative continues to grow in the U.S. and globally.

A Potentially Explosive Reputational Risk

With guns a hot-button emotional issue, employers face tough choices for managing related reputational exposures.

Executives Focus on the Next Generation

Senior executives discuss the industry’s continued challenges in not just attracting young talent but keeping it.

Pay Disparity Seen in Risk Management Roles

Lower pay for women in the field may be due to lower educational credentials or less time on the job.

Ten Tips for Leave Management

The leave management environment is increasingly complex, and costly.

Breakthrough Testing Still in Need of Traction

Pharmacogentic testing has the potential to save money and even lives, but a great deal of skepticism remains.

Anticipating ACA Risks

Speakers identify key compliance risks presented by the ACA and how to head off vulnerabilities.

Risk Managers Rank Global Risks

The risk to brand or reputational damage was seen as the top concern of risk managers, who also ranked cyber risk as a top 10 global risk for the first time.

Employers Navigate Risks of Unconventional Medicine

As treatments including medical marijuana gain traction in the workers’ comp space, employers need new strategies to manage the risks and contain costs.

Changing Third Party Administrators Requires Careful Navigation

One company’s changing of TPAs provided valuable and unexpected risk management lessons for others to glean from.

Advantages and Challenges of Risk Committees

Risk committees help identify risk, gather information, implement risk management programs and create risk-aware cultures.

TRIA Inaction is ‘Disconcerting’

Politics trumped rational decision-making and put businesses in the cross hairs of potentially having lapses in coverage.

Opioid Paradox: The Drugs Can Cause Pain

Ironically, opioid pain medications can induce chronic pain rather than suppress it.

Wal-Mart’s Workers’ Compensation Litigation Strategy

An outcomes-based litigation strategy calls for benchmarking workers’ compensation attorney performance.

The Wolf of RIMS

It was cold outside for RIMS 2014 but The Wolf made some attendees hot with anger.