Insisting on consistency: there are advantages to belonging in
the middle of the pack: it forces the whizzes around you to keep
When he was called in to fix Tyco International's fragmented,
inefficient global claims management process, Paul Buckley knew, in his
own words, that the biggest obstacle he had to face was the . . .
Fair, fast settlements unsettle a hidebound bureaucracy: a pair
of astute compensation managers move aggressively against proble
New Yorkers have a reputation for being tough-minded, no-nonsense
types. But when it comes to workers' compensation claims
management, it took a California girl to improve the thinking of one . . .
Birth mother of CAT modeling spins on: props to Karen Clark for
her work on the IPCC, and at her new firm.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] R
Karen Clark is most recognized in the insurance community as the
founder, CEO and president of catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide.
Some may have heard she broke out on her own last year, . . .
Product protects foreign suppliers: ACE team takes on the hot
topic of liability for U.S. companies with overseas suppliers.(RIS
In April 2008 at the Risk and Insurance Management Society
Inc.'s annual conference in San Diego, ACE USA launched the ACE
Foreign Supplier Liability product, a solution for U.S.-based . . .
Sprinkler researcher is on fire: FM Global engineer has been an
integral part of the company's widely respected fire research.(R
When commercial and industrial property insurer FM Global comes to
mind, so does its world-renowned fire research. Since the company's
beginnings 173 years ago, the sprinkler has been a . . .
Champion for ERM: Society of Actuaries board member pioneers new
credential in his spare time.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVATO
Ever meet an individual who finds he can't be completely
satisfied with breaking new ground at his day job? He's got to take
on a trade association and move mountains there too? Maybe even create . . .
Now showing: fixed on filmmaking to get safety messages through
to impressionable students.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVATORS:
University risk managers have a tough enough time just trying to
reign in the students who all think they're invincible, let alone
getting them to read safety brochures. That's why students . . .
Creating best practices: Nicholas Tworischuk tackled the immense
task of categorizing risk management best practices for the 57
Even though New Jersey isn't a very large state
geographically, (it's the sixth smallest, just above Hawaii), it
boasts countless safety, security, emergency, standards, guidelines and
planning . . .
A man of action: running with the idea of self-insurance.(RISK
& INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVATORS: HIGHER EDUCATION)
"Anytime you can bring 16 different entities together within a
six-month period I think is an amazing feat," said Linda Joski,
area vice president of Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services . . .
Put your money where.... How to get school leadership to invest
scarce dollars in safety and prevention, and show a
return-on-in
Imagine how scary it must have been for Grace Crickette, the chief
risk officer at the University of California after she had made the
decision to launch her Be Smart About Safety program to . . .
The seeker: long before it was popular, Dan Anderson was talking
about risk and sustainability.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVAT
Professor Dan R. Anderson included a discussion of sustainability
and social risk in his risk management courses when most of us still
thought that carbon emissions were something you did in . . .
Health reform--that's the ticket: injecting some competition
into the health insurance marketplace and simplifying transactions.
If you think it's a hassle trying to figure out what's
covered under your health insurance plan, you're not alone.
John Zubak, Harvey Mitgang and April Stiles, the founders of VIIAD,
thought . . .
In the blood: a risk manager's fingerprint identity solution
for an Indiana blood bank.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVATORS:
HEA
When the Indiana Blood Center decided to convert its donor database
software to a new system, Jeff Davies, the Blood Center's former
risk manager, recognized that his employer had a potential . . .
Giving care to hospitals: the innovative Caregiver Safety
Accreditation cuts the costs incurred by a hospital consortium.(RISK
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As administrator of the Hospitals Self-Insurance Fund of Missouri,
Chris Miller had a problem. The HSIFM is a consortium of 15 healthcare
institutions that self-insure their workers' compensation . . .
Implementing a just culture: SSM Health Cafe's approach
helped promote patient safety by encouraging communication and allowing
As corporate vice president of risk management of SSM Health Care,
one of the largest Catholic integrate( health care delivery systems in
the country, Josephine Goode Evans has been working to . . .
Upending a model: anchoring a new model in the world disability
claimants actually live in.(RISK & INSURANCE[R] RISK INNOVATORS:
Getting some good ideas down on paper wasn't enough for
Jennifer Christian, the founder and chairwoman of The 60 Summits Project
Inc.
After leading a committee that wrote a white paper for the . . .
Visual clusters of risk: risk management professor and former
Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. director builds an ente
Although Robert Morrell's name is on the door as CEO of
one-year-old Riskonnect, he is quick to credit John "Jack"
Hampton for major input into the company's fast takeoff.
Hampton certainly has . . .
Doing away with "named location" risk on environmental
policies: executive pushes for holistic coverage of environmental risk
at
Three years ago, Merrill Lynch's Director, Global Insurance
& Risk, Ash Kilada, recently promoted to the position of first vice
president, saw a need for global environmental insurance coverage . . .
The X-V files: a forensic look at B.I. value: finding the
"pinch points" in supply chain risk.(RISK & INSURANCE[R]
RISK INNOVATO
John Dempsey's "X-V Analysis" (exposure-value
analysis) is the culmination of his 26 years as a forensic accountant.
"X-V Analysis," developed to go well beyond the
traditional business . . .
Swiss Re's Tom Skwarek clocks industry with a new idea:
just-in-time capital: up to $500-million in new, regulatory capital can
The highly innovative notion of CLOCS (Committed Long Term Capital
Securities) grew out of Farmers Insurance Exchange rethinking its entire
risk management strategy in the light of Hurricane Rita.
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