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Directors and Officers Liability Special Report
Lower premiums – but more investigations
Against the odds in these litigious, recessionary times, directors' and officers' liability insurance is getting cheaper for many companies. Sue Copeman gets the full picture
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Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK, interviewed Matthew Rolph, head of management liability, Marsh, and John Batch, senior vice president, Marsh
Risk Engineering Special Report
Tools for change
Tony Dowding sheds light on risk engineering and explains how a process associated with property protection can help firms fine tune their liability exposure
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Tony Dowding is a freelance writer
Business Continuity Special Report
Business uninterrupted
Contract certainty, reputational impact and handling post-loss issues were among the topics discussed at StrategicRISK’s recent question time on business continuity. Nathan Skinner describes the debate
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Nathan Skinner is associate editor StrategicRISK
Ferma Directors’ Roundtable Special Report
Risk and regulation in Europe
The economic crisis, proposed governance reforms and contingent commissions dominated the Ferma Directors' discussion
ERM Question Time Special Report
Global Insurance Programmes Special Report
Steering through the minefield
The world of international business is a complicated one. Firms with overseas operations face a huge number of legal challenges, not least in the realm of insurance, writes Nathan Skinner
Claims Special Report
Handle with care
Recent UK initiatives are at last giving issues over claims handling the attention they deserve. Sue Copeman reports
Environmental Liability Guide Special Report
A greener but more litigious future
The ELD has wide ranging implications for companies throughout the EU, explains Simon White
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Simon White is environmental branch manager of XL Insurance
NARIM Congress Report
NARIM appoints new chairman
Ellen Rekker succeeds Peter Den Dekker as head of the Dutch risk association
ERM Special Report
What’s driving ERM
Nathan Skinner gives an overview of enterprise risk management and looks at some of the drivers
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Nathan Skinner is associate editor, StrategicRISK
Anti-corruption Report
The cost of corruption
Nathan Skinner reviews anti bribery and corruption measures – and discusses just how effective they are
Product recall Report
Product recall risk
In today’s world product safety is paramount. Nathan Skinner sets the scene for this special report on product recall
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Nathan Skinner is associate editor, StrategicRISK
SWERMA Conference Report
Swedish market issues
Fresh capacity may be keeping rates flat in traditional lines but broker profitability is still causing concerns
Supply Chain Special Report
Managing supply chain risks
Globalisation may be posing new threats but the risks can be controlled.
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Marie-Gemma Dequae is president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA)
Captives Special Report
Presidents' Roundtable
Managing risk in the recession
Not surprisingly, the effects of the current economic recession on risk and risk management dominated the agenda. Managing change is a daily necessity in the crisis.
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Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK
Markus English, manager financial lines, CE Frankfurt office
Florian Mueller, country manager, ACE Swiss
Presidents' Roundtable 2008
The presidents of the European national risk management associations discuss the macroeconomic risks that individual countries, let alone companies, cannot control, plus the impact of globalisation and the fast pace of change
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Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK
Jeff Moghrabi, country manager, ACE France
Kadidja Sinz, head of financial lines
for continental Europe, ACE
Turmoil, transparency and compliance
The presidents discuss the effects of the financial crisis, transparency over broker remuneration and compliancy for global programmes
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Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK
Ron Verhulsdonck, Country Manager Benelux, ACE
Kadidja Sinz, sales and distribution manager, ACE Continental Europe
Presidents' Roundtable 2007: Evolving risks
The comparatively short-term focus of management boards and national governments means that the implications of long-term risks are not being taken into account despite the fact that dealing with them now would actually save overall costs
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Sue Copeman, editor, StrategicRISK
Florian Mueller, General manager, ACE Switzerland
Kadidja Sinz, head of financial lines for continental Europe, ACE
Roundtable 2007
Developing a risk culture
Financial institutions, perhaps more than any other business sector, today face the need to comply with a myriad of regulations which inevitably touch upon if not directly impact their risk management and corporate governance
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRisk
Energy and utilities - building on best practice
The power and utilities sector is fairly heavily regulated in the UK. This discussion highlighted the need for organisations to achieve balance between the regulators’ requirements and the organisation’s own additional objectives
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
Roundtable 2006
Absence management
All the statistics show that absence management is a win-win strategy. Employers reduce not just their employee-related claims but also a whole raft of other costs, both direct and indirect, associated with having people off work
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
Managing your liabilities
Interestingly, our panel of experts was divided as to whether the much talked about UK compensation culture was as widespread as it is made out to be
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRisk
Roundtable 2005
Policing your supply chain
Well, do you need to police it, or will a strategic partnership relationship work much better? This was one of the questions addressed by our roundtable participants
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
Risk retention
Deciding how much risk to retain can be a challenging balancing act. You have to take account of a wide range of factors including the operational as well as the financial elements
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
Roundtable 2004
Corporate integrity
Corporate integrity is a hard concept to define. Certainly it appears that the controls to enforce integrity will vary according to the organisation concerned
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
Measuring payback from risk management
While it is possible to quantify the value of risk management initiatives in respect of high frequency low impact insurable risks, it is far less easy to measure the payback from risk management in respect of the strategic risks that organisations...
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
German Trends
Trends in German Industrial Insurance –an inside out perspective
Large German industrial companies are worried about the efforts of the EU Commission to set up stricter rules for industrial insurance along the lines of consumer protection systems
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Herbert Fromme, Insurance Correspondent, FTD
Eurofocus
GENEVA: The future for risk management in Switzerland
On the last day of September, Swiss-based risk managers gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva on the eve of the FERMA conference for StrategicRisk’s latest roundtable.
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Andrew Leslie, Deputy Editor, StrategicRisk
Marcel Eckerle, Underwriting marine manager, Ace Switzerland
Florian Mueller, General manager, Ace switzerland
BRUSSELS: The key environmental risks
Research conducted by StrategicRISK in association with ACE highlights some of the issues relating to environmental liability that are taxing corporate risk professionals. In this Euro Forum discussion, our panel discussed some of the findings...
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Sue Copeman, Editor, StrategicRISK
ERM Roundtable
Definitions and perceptions
There are a plethora of definitions of enterprise risk management (ERM). Many of them focus on process, rather than looking at what ERM actually seeks to achieve
