Background
Richard Rudolph contributed articles on liability
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.