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The Risks of Social Media: Developing a Social Media Crisis Response Plan

by Jared Wade on January 31, 2012 · 1 comment

By now, we have seen it so many times: a company faces a crisis that was created entirely through social media. There are certainly many activist campaigns launched through Facebook, Twitter and blogs that bring negative attention to companies. But what really makes the most headlines is when companies bring a fiasco upon themselves. We’ve [...]

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The Deadliest Car Bombs

by Jared Wade on January 30, 2012 · 0 comments

On the 10-year anniversary of September 11, we took a look at some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in history. Those attacks that have been most spectacular in nature — such as the unique means used in 9/11 and the U.S.S. Cole bombing and horror of rampages such as those in Mumbai and Norway — [...]

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The Emerging Risks of 2012

by Jared Wade on January 27, 2012 · 0 comments

In our February issue of Risk Management magazine, we highlighted seven of the key risks that companies will face in the coming year. These, we claim, are the risks that “if they don’t keep you up at night, might bring down your company.”  We have no delusions that this list is comprehensive or that all [...]

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Property-Casualty Insurance Pricing Up 2.8% in the Last Quarter

by Jared Wade on January 25, 2012 · 0 comments

More evidence that rates are headed north surfaced yesterday. The latest quarterly property/casualty survey from the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers came out. And as the chart above illustrates, there’s no surprise here: rates are on the rise in the face of insurer catastrophe losses, falling reserves and rising underwriting discipline. Commercial property/casualty pricing [...]

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