Emerging Risks

Geopolitical Risk Surges Into Top 10 Global Threats as Organizations Struggle With Preparedness

Aon survey reveals dramatic shift in global risk landscape, but finds relatively few companies quantify their exposure to top risks.

Extreme Weather Emerges as Top Business Risk, With Billion-Dollar Disasters More Than Tripling in Five Years

Casualty Catastrophe Market Presents $5B Growth Opportunity as Mass Litigation Surges

How Underwriting and Claims Are Reshaped by AI in Insurance — and How They Stay the Same 

Hydrogen Economy Boom Creates $3 Billion Insurance Market Opportunity

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5 Reasons Why Juries Are Awarding Billion-Dollar Verdicts

Emotion and trust play a big role in how a jury rules in personal injury and liability cases.

Government Drones Are Everywhere and Risk Managers Better Catch Up

The use of drones in the public sector is expanding rapidly. From heat mapping to dispersing medication to investigating noise complaints, the benefits and the risks are tangible.

It’s Your Employees, Stupid! How to Fix Your Cyber Security Weakest Link

Rather than viewing employees primarily as liabilities, training them to spot cyber attacks is a best practice.

Colleges that Don’t Adapt to Modern Needs Face Bankruptcy

Mount Ida College in Massachusetts just declared bankruptcy. Who’s next?

What Working on a Nuclear Submarine Taught Joe Tocco about Teamwork, Talent and Trust

The Navy veteran turned carrier executive discusses his unique introduction to insurance, the risks and challenges facing the industry, and the importance of cultivating talent.

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Coverage of Most Dangerous Emerging Risks sets industry standards.

Risk & Insurance Wins Editorial Awards

For the fourth year running, the magazine’s edit team wins an award for its coverage of emerging risks.

Climate Change as a Business Interruption Multiplier

Crumbling roads and bridges isolate companies and trigger business interruption losses.

Emerging Multipliers

It’s not that these risks are new; it’s that they’re coming at you at a volume and rate you never imagined before.

The Growing Insurance Gap Is A Serious Threat to Us All

Growing populations and rising property values, combined with an increase in high-severity catastrophes, are pushing the insurance protection gap to a critical level.

Vermont: A Domicile For Captive Innovation

Cyber, trucking and terror risk in property are finding alternative risk homes.

Insuring Innovation

For a company that’s changing the way people drive, building the right insurance program was a collaborative accomplishment.

AI as a Risk Multiplier

AI has potential, but it comes with risks. Mitigating these risks helps insurers and insureds alike, enabling advances in almost every field. 

Social Media Acts as Reputation’s Existential Threat

Social media — the very tool used to connect people in an instant — can threaten a business’s reputation just as quickly.

RIMS Rocks San Antonio

Sexual harassment and the threats and opportunities in artificial intelligence will be on this year’s RIMS agenda.

Pardon, No Disruption

Old-school businesses and practices will soon be only memories, overtaken by the frantic rush to embrace the shiny new future.

Fear Not the Robot

Fear not, workers’ comp insurers. Robots and automation may create just as many jobs as they displace.

Rough Seas Ahead for Marine Industry

The sector’s profitability is precarious, but investments in technology and recruitment could assuage some of its challenges.

Playing Dirty

WannaCry’s worldwide disruption illustrated that ransomware is the fastest-growing and most indiscriminate form of malware attack.

Hooba-Dooba! Digital Health Care Reality: Part II

Digital health care is on the rise, and so are the risks associated with it.