Richard G. Rudolph
Richard Rudolph contributed articles on
commercial general
liability (CGL) insurance for IRMI.com.
Dr. Rudolph earned a bachelor of science in accountancy from the University
of Illinois-Urbana, where he also studied international monetary theory and
insurance and risk management in graduate school. He attained his MBA in 1988
and his doctor of philosophy in business administration in 1989.
He is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and holds five associate
designations (ARM, ARP, APA, AIAF, and AAM) conferred by the Insurance Institute
of America.
Dr. Rudolph is the author of the CPCU Society's 1987 Outstanding Research
Project, "Bond-Financed Self-Insurance for Public Entities: A Risk Management
Alternative," and has written numerous other articles on insurance coverages,
risk management financing, agent errors and omissions, ethics, insurance history,
and financial solvency. He is a frequent speaker on topics in insurance coverages,
risk financing, agent errors and omissions, ethics, effective business writing,
and creative thinking.
He is a past president of the Chicago Chapter of CPCU, serves on the Ethics
Committee of the CPCU Society, and is the chair of the Society's Distance Learning
Task Force. He is also a past director and treasurer of the Insurance Society
of Chicago and has served as an instructor of IIA and CPCU courses since 1981.
In 1987 he was honored as an Outstanding Instructor of the Insurance School
of Chicago. He is also the August 1994 Standard Setter for the CPCU Society,
was the first recipient of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty
Underwriters/American Institute of America's Jack F. Derrickson Award for Outstanding
Course Leadership, and was recognized by the CPCU Society as a Distinguished
Instructor at its Annual Meeting in 1996. In 1997, the AICPCU and IIA listed
Dr. Rudolph on the National Registry of Outstanding Course Leaders.
Dr. Rudolph entered the insurance industry in 1972 as a sales representative
for a major insurance company and worked in various capacities in agencies and
brokerage firms until 1992. In 1992, he joined a risk management consulting
practice, which now bears his name.
Articles on IRMI.com
Commercial Insurance: General Liability Insurance
Coordinating Persons
Insured in Primary and Excess Liability Policies (February 2001)
Who Wants To Be
an Insured? (December 2000)
Additionally Insured
or Held Harmful? (March 2000)