Risk
The Dallas Convention Centre will host the 37th Annual RIMS Conference & Exhibition, expected to draw more than 9,000 risk management professionals from April 11th to the 16th. The conference will feature guest speaker Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Joint Chief of Staff. It will also host more than 150 educational programs and 40 industry […]
February 28, 1999
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Risk managers believe they have gained a small victory on the quality of service battleground with the insurance industry. The Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc. (RIMS) and global-brokers J&H Marsh & McLennan recently issued a joint statement to the effect that the brokerage has agreed to reveal contingency commission arrangements to clients on request. […]
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Reduced profitability, rising underwriting losses, increased competition and higher technology costs are likely to form the stage for the North American property and casualty insurance industry in 1999, according to the vast majority of respondents in an Insurance Information Institute (III) survey conducted at the annually held Joint Industry Forum which recently took place in New York City.
By Lowell Conn and Sean Van Zyl | February 28, 1999
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Health management services have been an all or none proposition for corporate Canada. A company traditionally has to buy a bundle of services from one provider or assemble a program from a group of vendors. Liberty Risk Services Canada wants to change that. The Toronto-based company is taking a new tactic to health management with […]
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By Shelley Boyes | February 28, 1999
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Every end is a new beginning. This has never been truer than in today’s fast paced world where everyone and everything is constantly being reinvented. As I look at my career in the risk management field, I can see that risk management is an evolutionary process where people and companies become more aware of their […]
By Richard Saylor, a risk management consultant and former risk & i | February 28, 1999
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Despite deteriorating conditions in the property and casualty insurance market, insurers continue to slash already low premium rates. Market observers forecast this trend to continue for at least 24 months as insurers prioritize marketshare over revenue prosperity. Simply put, the insurance price war – particularly intense in the commercial lines arena – can only lead […]
By Lowell Conn and Sean van Zyl | February 28, 1999
The risk management profession is coming of age, says Susan Meltzer the incoming president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. Meltzer will be the fifth Canadian president to take the reins of North America's most prestigious organization representing the development of risk managers. She is also the first Canadian woman to occupy the presidency chair of RIMS, a task she does not find daunting in the least. Her message: it's time for risk managers to look ahead.
As I approached the first aisles of the “Exhibitors’ Showcase” it occurred to me for perhaps the sixth or seventh time just how technologically advanced our business had become. The three-day-long brokers’ convention had started, and half of the convention floor in our city’s largest hotel had been converted into an impressive showcase of computers […]
By Axiom | February 28, 1999
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The Export Development Corporation (EDC) posted record year end results for 1998. The corporation provides financial and risk management services to Canadian exporters, serving a record 4,183 exporters last year — a 13% increase on 1997. The EDC’s business volume grew by 21% in 1998 from a year earlier with a record $34.7 billion and […]
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