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The 2024 Riskworld annual conference and exhibition is taking place May 5-8 in San Diego. View our photo gallery from the last day.

Rachelle Best is president of RT ProExec, a unit of RT Specialty, and is based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. She began her career in the industry as an underwriter at Chubb Ltd. in 2003. In 2009, she became a broker for Oakbridge Insurance Services, which was acquired by RT Specialty in 2010.

Longtime risk managers Joe Restoule and Millie Workman were inducted into the Risk Management Hall of Fame Wednesday.

Emerging risks associated with corporate use of artificial intelligence can be quantified and transferred to insurers via existing policies, new AI policies and captives, a panel of experts said.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday that it cited a supply-chain transportation company after a worker was hospitalized for serious injuries after being struck by a semi-tractor-trailer at a Nebraska grain yard.

The New York State Insurance Fund on Wednesday released a health care-focused report that found a higher correlation between workplace injury frequency and severity and days of extreme temperatures.

IMA Financial Group Inc. Wednesday said former McGriff Insurance Services Inc. executive John Mizell has joined the broker in the newly created position of director in IMA Houston’s energy & marine practice.

Three insurance companies have rejected Chevron’s claim over the seizure last year of an oil cargo by Iran, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

Risk management concerns should be part of cyber incident response plans to ensure companies make the best use of their insurance coverage and reduce unnecessary disclosure of potentially damaging information, experts say.

The 2024 Riskworld annual conference and exhibition is taking place May 5-8 in San Diego. View our photo gallery from the third day.

FM Global said Tuesday it has formed a unit targeting renewable energy risk that will provide research and loss-prevention engineering services and, later this year, an insurance product for the sector.

Olga Collins, CEO of Worldwide Broker Network, discusses the challenges the insurance industry faces in attracting and retaining workers, and strategies that companies can use to draw talent to the sector.

Captive use continues to grow as climate change exacerbates extreme weather events driving property premium increases, Marsh LLC executives said Tuesday.

Dan Frusciano is head of cyber underwriting, North America, for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Based in New York, he joined the insurer via its 2017 acquisition of Ironshore and has underwritten cyber liability risks for 15 years.

Sustainable policies and protocols to enhance driver safety are just a few ways to reduce risk for the auto liability market, a broker said Tuesday.

The Baldwin Insurance Group Inc., formerly BRP Group Inc., the parent company of brokerage Baldwin Risk Partners LLC, Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $39.1 million, compared with a loss of $25.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023.

One of the biggest predicters of mental issues arising in a workers compensation claim is pain, according to several experts who say claims handlers must deploy strategies to help injured workers with how they are feeling.

Organizations need to ensure the workforce has the necessary skills and training to manage the emerging risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence, a panel of risk leaders said Tuesday.

Insurers and policyholders must adapt to sustained higher levels of economic inflation and “social inflation,” Evan Greenberg, chairman and CEO of Chubb Ltd. said Tuesday.

Increased court awards and settlements are hitting insurers’ loss costs and may force risk managers to buy higher limits, according to an executive at insurance data company Zywave Inc.