All Risk News articles – Page 306
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European Round-up
Risk learning made easy
Stranger danger and safety in the home are just two of the topics Coventry's local schoolchildren are learning about with the help of an interactive puppet show.Puppets and their actor chums visited nine special schools during March to educate and entertain children with 'Risk Management on Show'. The 30-minute ...
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Crime goes unreported
A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 285 companies has found that a third of businesses do not report their information security crimes and breaches. According to interviews with a panel of 20 chief security officers of large enterprises, businesses are subject to attempted e-crime every day, but it is hard ...
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Interest in EIL cover grows
The environmental insurance market has shown further signs of growth, with insurers interviewed in the latest Willis Environmental Index for the first quarter of 2007 reporting an increase of up to 100% in the number of policies placed last year, compared to 2005. A corresponding increase in total premium placed ...
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Cutting the cost of fraud
A recent survey, conducted by FraudLine among a cross section of its 34 subscribing local authorities, revealed that, on average, the number of public and employers liability insurance claims received in 2006 was reduced by 15%, compared to the same period in 2005. FraudLine was endorsed within the survey as ...
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Correction
In our April article, Time for Review, the conclusion on the UK Bartoline ruling's influence in other countries should have read: 'The Bartoline ruling would be persuasive in the courts of other countries and likely to have an influence on any judgements handed down in other territories should a comparable ...
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Spending more on internal control
A survey of non-SEC registered companies with a turnover of over €1bn in 17 countries, says that 75% of them plan to invest more in internal control after seeing significant business benefits. However, many CFOs and heads of internal audit believe some internal controls are ineffective, with the biggest blind ...
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FERMA News Briefs
Two further risk management associations, the national associations of Finland and Slovakia, have applied to join FERMA. The board of directors will consider the applications in June. They would bring the total number of FERMA members to 16 and the number of countries represented to 15. ...
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ALARM conference – Risk, responsibility and regulation issues
Lynn Drennan discusses the theme of ALARM’s 2007 annual conference in Cardiff
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Human capital risk most significant threat to companies
New survey lists human capital risk as being more significant than reputational, political or regulatory risks
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US Treasury sponsors pandemic crisis response
US to test ability of financial services sector to respond to pandemic crisis
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Governance is the top concern for Australasian corporates
Risk survey identifies the key risk concerns of corporate Australia and New Zealand
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Workaholic Brits suffer from urban fatigue
New research shows that stressed out city dwellers need to give themselves a break
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Government failing to tackle cross-border fraud
Counter-measures are failing to have any impact on multi-billion pound missing trader fraud
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FERMA - Broker remuneration disclosure “not entirely satisfactory”
FERMA responds to EC competition inquiry into business insurance
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Chemical pollution: clean surface water by 2015
New report calls for "toughening up" of proposed rules on improving the quality of surface water
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EC releases paper on ship dismantlement
European Commission publishes consultation paper on environmental risks associated with ship dismantling
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FSA issues annual report of incidents
Food Standard Agency issues report stressing need to report incidents of food/environmental contamination...
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Emerging risks impeding business development
Over one third of companies avoid investing in overseas markets due to political risk fears, according to report
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Govt to spend more on flood resilience measures
UK government reveals plans to set up £500,000 flood funding package to protect vulnerable homes...
