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Risk and Insurance History
The Great Fire of London
2001-06-01 | Barry Klein
Barry Klein explains how the Great Fire of London catalyzed the birth of the modern insurance industry and explores the historical events that shaped its emergence.
Risk Management Technology
Information Systems: Which Type Is Right for Your Organization?
2001-04-01 | Anita Schoenfeld
Buying a new risk management system is difficult considering all the different applications and alternatives. Learn what types of systems are available and how they can respond to your organization's needs.
Insurance Archaeology
Insurance Archaeology for Mergers and Acquisitions: Due Diligence before and after Closing
2001-01-01 | Sheila Mulrennan
One often-crucial factor affecting both the advisability and success of a merger is the prospective partner's insurance portfolio. Any corporation moving to merge or purchase a corporation in the United States must recognize the litigious climate and defend itself by making sure that both its own and its prospective partner's insurance coverage is adequate. Learn more in this insightful article.
Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry: From Concept to Management Process
2000-11-01 | Jerry Miccolis
Learn how a five-step systematic management process-assessing risks, articulating strategies, evaluating strategies from policyholders' and owners' perspectives, and then refining them-represents the logical flow of activities in developing ERM strategy.
Risk Management Technology
Risk Management for Your Website
2000-09-01 | Anita Schoenfeld
The key to determining how to approach your exposure to risk associated with Internet websites ultimately lies with a thorough risk analysis. If your risk analysis proves that certain threats to your websites can prove costly to your business, it may make sense to take action to limit your exposure.
Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry: Still a Long Way to Go
2000-08-01 | Jerry Miccolis
The promise of ERM for financial services managers is that it can help them systematically make business decisions that contemplate all types of risk (e.g., event risks, operational risks, and financial risks). But, how close is this industry to realizing the promise of ERM? A recent Tillinghast-Towers Perrin survey reveals the answer.
Risk and Insurance History
How Umbrella Policies Started Part 2: the First Umbrella Forms
2000-04-01 | Jim Robertson
Jim Robertson discusses developments in blanket liability, other concepts that led to the creation of the first umbrella coverage forms, and the development of the American market for umbrellas after 1957.
Insurance Archaeology
Insurance Archaeology: A Strategic Imperative for Policyholders and Insurers
2000-03-01 | Sheila Mulrennan
Sheila Mulrennan explains that even though it has become increasingly difficult for policyholders, insurers, and reinsurers to reconstruct their pre-paid historic insurance assets, it is more important now than ever.
Risk and Insurance History
How Umbrella Policies Started Part 1: Early Liability Coverage
2000-03-01 | Jim Robertson
Jim Robertson examines the origins of liability insurance, early policy limits, the first excess liability market, excess of loss reinsurance, direct U.S. placements at Lloyd's, excess coverage developments, and the emergence of self-insurance.
Risk Management Technology
Information Systems: Which Type Is Right for Your Organization?
2001-04-01 | Anita Schoenfeld
Insurance Archaeology
Insurance Archaeology for Mergers and Acquisitions: Due Diligence before and after Closing
2001-01-01 | Sheila Mulrennan
Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry: From Concept to Management Process
2000-11-01 | Jerry Miccolis
Enterprise Risk Management
Enterprise Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry: Still a Long Way to Go
2000-08-01 | Jerry Miccolis
Risk and Insurance History
How Umbrella Policies Started Part 2: the First Umbrella Forms
2000-04-01 | Jim Robertson
Insurance Archaeology
Insurance Archaeology: A Strategic Imperative for Policyholders and Insurers
2000-03-01 | Sheila Mulrennan
Risk and Insurance History
How Umbrella Policies Started Part 1: Early Liability Coverage
2000-03-01 | Jim Robertson
