All Strategic Risk Global articles in September 2007
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Environment insurer responds
Evironmental liability is not uninsurable, emphasised Simon White, environmental manager, XL Insurance
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Online onlyBe worried, be very worried…
This stark heading from a special issue of ‘Time’ on global warming acted as the backdrop to the introduction of yesterday morning’s workshop on climate change and its economic and social impacts
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Balance cost against value
FERMA president Marie-Gemma Dequae stressed the need to balance the cost of implementing global enterprise risk management and possible ISO certification requirements against the benefits
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AnalysisFlooding brings pressure to benchmark claims
In the aftermath of the UK’s disastrous summer flooding, parts of the insurance industry have called on the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to publish claims benchmarking figures
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Protect employees
European companies who send employees to dangerous parts of the world are imprudent if they operate without an adequate kidnap and ransom (K&R) insurance policy
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Online onlyLegislative trends
Many EU member states have failed to meet the 30 April 2007 deadline for introducing new environmental provisions into national law
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Just say No…
Companies need courage and vision to manage risk – and the ability to say No
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Achieving integrated risk management
For the past number of years, AIRMIC has been working with the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) to establish a dialogue between the risk management and treasurer professions
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Life and death realities
Stephen Carver, a managing partner at ALS, used the history of NASA’s space programme to illustrate the pressures and poor decisions that led to the Challenger and Columbia disasters
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AnalysisManaging REACH
The University of Hull is the only university in Europe to offer an accredited postgraduate course in the management of REACH
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Renewable energy
New technologies and stakeholder pressures drive bespoke comprehensive insurance solutions
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Global growth in risk management
Despite the favourable world economic background, more businesses globally are addressing the many risks and uncertainties that are an inherent part of business life
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Online onlySwiss SMEs caught in regulation net
Risk managers in Switzerland who are concerned about the forthcoming regulations concerning governance should not be too worried about it
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Risky websites
Websites are risking liability claims and their organisation’s reputation by ignoring the human element in managing content quality, warned Aon
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Online onlyEnvironmentally uninsured?
Companies could be breaking new environmental liability rules through no fault of their own
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Shareholder activism and new litigation tactics making D&O liability insurance more prevalent on continent, report says
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Environmental risk: Think globally, insure locally
There has been much activity in the past 18 months as the European insurance market has acted to address new obligations arising from the EU’s Environmental Liability Directive
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Giving the board discretion
A new D&O liability policy endorsement gives a company’s board the power to elect to stop paying defence costs for individuals who have committed fraudulent or illegal acts
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New pollution claims service
Crawford & Company UK has launched a new EPCS in direct response to increasing environmental legislation
