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RIMS 2009 Orlando

Many corporations now have their own blogs as a platform to market themselves and spread their knowledge of their respective business practices. For this reason, RIMS hosted a session on the numerous risks of blogging. Speaking were Christopher Sloan of Liberty Mutual, Mark Flannery of Caterpillar and Andy Steggles of RIMS.  Andy pointed to the [...]

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The hurricane preparedness session at RIMS 2009 featured Dave Cocchiarella, Orlando’s own Central Florida News 13 meteorologist. Also speaking were Graeme Harper of Risk Strategies USA and Mark Yarmolich, vice president of risk management for Hercules Offshore, a provider of offshore drilling.  Dave Cocchiarella provided this forecast for the upcoming hurricane season as of April [...]

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The cost of health care in the United States is spiraling to levels that our grandparents would have thought impossible. And yet, we find ourselves, as a nation, spending more on health care each year than many other countries spend on defense. Where this is becoming a matter for risk managers — aside from the [...]

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This morning at 9:00 am in the Orange County Convention Center, Aon unveiled its “2009 Global Risk Management Survey” and — unsurprisingly — fear of economic slowdown ranked as the number one concern for the 500-plus global organizations that responded. Stephen Cross, CEO of Aon Global Risk Consulting and one of the presenters detailing the [...]

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