Release Date: June 30, 2009
Contact: Contact Us
DALLAS—International
Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI), has launched a monthly e-mail
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 Web page:
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.