Sometimes I am puzzled. I look around and see lots of people who are all basically made from the same genetic material as me, yet why is it that some of my genetic cousins are insane? (I apologize for casting…
Stadium risk management
With news coming out of Quebec City that billionaires are trying to get the Government of Canada to foot the bill for a new area (one that might lure the Nordiques back and be part of a future Olympic bid),…
I’m not dead yet
This story in today’s Globe and Mail kills me. I guess it’s true what they say about death and taxes. If you were looking at the financial data from Toronto-based funeral company, Arbor, you might think that people were dropping…
Insuring against an athlete being involved in a scandal
New York Times writes about companies insuring against scandals like the recent Tiger Woods events. In the wake of the Tiger Woods scandal, insurers are being inundated with inquiries from corporations seeking to protect their investments, their brands and even…
van Deventer: Risk Management Lessons from Lance Armstrong
I would like bring to your attention the blog by Donald van Deventer from the Kamakura Corporation. We may both write about risk management but on a risk management scale, Don is to Thomas Jefferson what I am Bart Simpson.…
Hofmann writes about Tiger Woods and ERM
Mark A Hoffman writes in Business Insurance about a few topics near and dear to me: Tiger Woods and enterprise risk management. Have a read at this article and then search for some of the Tiger Woods-related posts published at…
Reputation insurance
DeWitt Stern, an insurance brokerage firm specializing in insurance products for the entertainment, arts, and advertising communities, will introduce “Reputation Risk Insurance” in 2010. According to the press release, the insurance will “compensate policy holders for lost sales, crisis management…