All Risk News articles – Page 305
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Building assessment
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance extends commercial insurance and risk management product range
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Risk management enables growth
Survey says risk management is now seen as a key contributor to a company’s source of competitive advantage
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Scary, manageable or insurable?
Risk manager for The Polestar Group says public liability insurers should consider providing more cover for environmental liability
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UK better for whistleblowers
Survey shows European employees fear reprisals at work for whistle-blowing
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Regulation: a step too far?
Marsh report suggests regulation in the UK is seen as key risk issue
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New authority launched to manage REACH directive
European Chemical Authority launched in Finland to ensure consistent plan European chemcial standards
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New EU chemicals regulation
New European chemicals agency starts operations as REACH enters into force
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OECD's Gurría welcome's Zoellick nomination for World Bank
Gurría said appointment will contribute to expanding co-operation between the World Bank and the OECD.
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European Round-up
ALARM conference – Risk, responsibility and regulation issues
Lynn Drennan discusses the theme of ALARM’s 2007 annual conference in Cardiff
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FERMA News Briefs
Two further risk management associations, the national associations of Finland and Slovakia, have applied to join FERMA. The board of directors will consider the applications in June. They would bring the total number of FERMA members to 16 and the number of countries represented to 15. ...
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Spending more on internal control
A survey of non-SEC registered companies with a turnover of over €1bn in 17 countries, says that 75% of them plan to invest more in internal control after seeing significant business benefits. However, many CFOs and heads of internal audit believe some internal controls are ineffective, with the biggest blind ...
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Correction
In our April article, Time for Review, the conclusion on the UK Bartoline ruling's influence in other countries should have read: 'The Bartoline ruling would be persuasive in the courts of other countries and likely to have an influence on any judgements handed down in other territories should a comparable ...
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Cutting the cost of fraud
A recent survey, conducted by FraudLine among a cross section of its 34 subscribing local authorities, revealed that, on average, the number of public and employers liability insurance claims received in 2006 was reduced by 15%, compared to the same period in 2005. FraudLine was endorsed within the survey as ...
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Interest in EIL cover grows
The environmental insurance market has shown further signs of growth, with insurers interviewed in the latest Willis Environmental Index for the first quarter of 2007 reporting an increase of up to 100% in the number of policies placed last year, compared to 2005. A corresponding increase in total premium placed ...
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Crime goes unreported
A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 285 companies has found that a third of businesses do not report their information security crimes and breaches. According to interviews with a panel of 20 chief security officers of large enterprises, businesses are subject to attempted e-crime every day, but it is hard ...
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Risk learning made easy
Stranger danger and safety in the home are just two of the topics Coventry's local schoolchildren are learning about with the help of an interactive puppet show.Puppets and their actor chums visited nine special schools during March to educate and entertain children with 'Risk Management on Show'. The 30-minute ...
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Record investment in environment and safety
Capital spending on environment, health and safety by the Finnish chemical industry reached record figures in 2006, according to the Chemical Industry Federation of Finland (CIFF). The sector invested a total of some €86m, an amount equal to more than 14% of fixed investment by the sector and a rise ...
