Release Date: June 30, 2009
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DALLAS—International Risk Management
Institute, Inc. (IRMI), has launched a monthly email newsletter focused on
construction insurance and risk management. IRMI Construction Risk
Manager is available at no charge and includes a bonus white
paper—"Effective Contractual Risk Transfer in Construction."
Construction, risk, and insurance practitioners can register to receive the
free newsletter and obtain a link to the white paper on this webpage:
http://www.irmi.com/newsletters.
Written for construction financial executive and risk managers as well as
the insurance professionals who serve the construction industry, IRMI Construction Risk
Manager provides practical and actionable strategies for managing
construction risk; purchasing, selling, or underwriting construction
insurance; or adjusting construction insurance claims. Topics covered include
additional insured status, contractual risk transfer, design-build liability,
construction defect, wrap-ups, and more.
The bonus white paper—"Effective Contractual Risk Transfer in
Construction"—provides a concise overview of strategies for improving
the contractual risk transfer process from the point of view of both the risk
transferor and the risk transferee. Both legal and insurance issues are
addressed. IRMI President Jack
Gibson, CPCU, CRIS, ARM, said, "Construction risks are unique and
complex, and this new construction-focused newsletter will allow us to give
industry-specific advice to those who wish to assure that they stay on the
leading edge of the risk management problems facing the industry and the la
solutions to those problems."
The editor of IRMI Construction Risk Manager is Ann Rudd Hickman, CPCU, CRIS, ARM, a senior
research analyst with International Risk Management Institute, Inc. Ms.
Hickman is also the editor of Construction
Risk Management, and several course texts for the Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist (CRIS®) certification
program. She also serves as the curriculum director for the IRMI Construction Risk
Conference. Ms. Hickman holds an MA in insurance from the University of
Georgia.
For further information and to activate a free subscription to IRMI
Construction Risk Manager, visit http://www.irmi.com/newsletters.