Developing Financial Supervision The Canadian Solution
July 1, 1999 Lawrie Savage of Lawrie Savage & Associates Inc.The 1990s saw considerable attention drawn to the global benefits of the so-called “hot” developing economies such as South America, Asia and the former Eastern Bloc countries. Most recently, we have seen plunging stock markets and economic uncertainty resulting in these same areas. Strangely, these have a link with trends in Canadian financial supervision.
RISK SURVEYS CIRCULATE
June 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterWorkers compensation costs, safety and loss control programs, technology, the insurance marketplace and corporate human resources are among the top issues of concern facing risk managers in 1999, according to Liberty Mutual’s Risk Management: Ideas at Work survey released at…
RIMS 99: HOLISTIC RISKON THE HORIZON
June 1, 1999 Lowell ConnDallas, Texas was the site of the Risk & Insurance Management Society’s recent 37th annual conference and exhibition where 4500 delegates met, networked, and examined a profession undergoing large-scale transformation.
globally Speaking
April 1, 1999 Sean van Zyl, EditorThe CICMA and CIAA 99 Joint Conference – held in Toronto in February – focused on the competitive challenges reshaping the p&c insurance industry. The overall message delivered at the event was clear: the process of industry change, mainly as…
Lindsey Morden changes name
April 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterLindsey Morden Claims Services Ltd. has officially changed its name to Cunningham Lindsey Canada Ltd., a move to harmonize the company’s identity worldwide. “As a large, strong global company, sharing this common identity amongst our claims and risk management services…
MINERS looking for global risk partners
April 1, 1999 Ken Fedosen and Eugene Iacob of Zurich Global EnergyDespite plummeting international commodity values — which over the last decade have made mining equities less than the darlings of stock markets — the Canadian mining industry is expanding at a healthy clip. It is estimated that 100 new mines…
D&O profit margins decrease
April 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterIntense competition, increasing litigation and the rising cost of claims is decreasing profitability in directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance market, a panel of executives told the D&O Liability and Issues Symposium sponsored by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).…
Risk Management: It’s a Buyer’s Market
March 1, 1999 Lowell Conn and Sean van ZylDespite deteriorating conditions in the property and casualty insurance market, insurers continue to slash already low premium rates. Market observers forecast this trend to continue for at least 24 months as insurers prioritize marketshare over revenue prosperity. Simply put, the…
RIMS 37th Annual Conference rides into Dallas
March 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Dallas Convention Centre will host the 37th Annual RIMS Conference & Exhibition, expected to draw more than 9,000 risk management professionals from April 11th to the 16th. The conference will feature guest speaker Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Joint…
A turning point in professionalism
March 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterThe risk management profession is coming of age, says Susan Meltzer the incoming president of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. Meltzer will be the fifth Canadian president to take the reins of North America’s most prestigious organization representing the development of risk managers. She is also the first Canadian woman to occupy the presidency chair of RIMS, a task she does not find daunting in the least. Her message: it’s time for risk managers to look ahead.
A RISKY BUSINESS
March 1, 1999 AxiomAs I approached the first aisles of the “Exhibitors’ Showcase” it occurred to me for perhaps the sixth or seventh time just how technologically advanced our business had become. The three-day-long brokers’ convention had started, and half of the convention…
Liberty Risk Services’ LEADING-EDGE APPROACH to bottom-line savings
March 1, 1999 by Canadian UnderwriterHealth management services have been an all or none proposition for corporate Canada. A company traditionally has to buy a bundle of services from one provider or assemble a program from a group of vendors. Liberty Risk Services Canada wants…