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Airmic 2025: The truth about lithium-ion battery risks and how to manage them

Electric vehicles may be the spark, but lithium-ion battery risks run deeper. At Airmic 2025, Marsh’s Alistair Schuberth gave a briefing on what risk managers need to know

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Risk-!n 2025: Turning resilience into action with new UN tool

At Risk-!n 2025, speakers warned that insurance is no silver bullet - and presented a practical new way for businesses to benchmark resilience maturity

  • Renewable sector must urgently learn to manage growing extreme weather risks

  • How to protect your empty business premises against heightened crime risks

  • Aon reports record $38bn in Q1 insured catastrophe losses: how businesses can prepare

  • Briefing: Soaring EV sales spark new underwriting concerns over fire risks

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Risk-!n 2025: How Cofra Holdings is adapting to climate risk

At the Risk-!n conference in Zurich, two climate risk experts – Arjan Vos, enterprise risk manager at COFRA Holding, and Théophile Bellouard, VP at Altitude, AXA Climate – outlined what practical, systemic climate adaptation looks like, and how businesses can take action before it’s too late.

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Spotlight on: California wildfire risks and how to protect employees and ensure business continuity

As wildfires spread across California, Strategic Risk explores the steps risk managers can take to safeguard their employees and ensure business continuity

  • Spotlight on: risk management strategies to tackle Lithium-ion battery fire threats

  • Everything risk managers need to know about North Korea

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The mediator: Cummins’ risk manager Maggie Sun shares how she’s built bridges between risk philosophy and business needs

Maggie Sun has worked hard to embed risk into the DNA of Cummins, China. She spoke to Trevor Treharne about her latest challenge – finding the balance between mitigating risk and accepting that, sometimes, a little risk is a business necessity.

  • The historian: Dirk Wegener shares the lessons he’s learnt in over 20 years of risk management

  • Putting science and data behind climate risk management

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Quick guide: How to manage Lithium-ion battery risks

Lithium-Ion batteries pose a significant fire risk for businesses. Adrian Simmonds, practice leader - property risk solutions at QBE Insurance, shares a ten-point checklist to ensure your business is protected

  • Supply chain risk lessons from the ancient Greeks

  • Risk briefing: getting to grips with construction risks

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    Why risk managers are turning to parametrics to solve operational challenges

    As nat cats grow more severe, insurance gaps are widening - but parametric solutions might hold the key to resilience, says Dianna Nelson, a senior structurer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

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    Q&A: Using satellite data for flood damage mitigation

    By Rupert Bidwell

    Rupert Bidwell, vice president for insurance solutions at ICEYE, talks to Strategic Risk and Insurance Times about the power of leveraging satellite technology

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    Taken by storm - how medium-sized enterprises can use parametrics to tackle nat cat risks

    Medium-sized enterprises (MSEs) play a vital role in our economy. However, these companies face unique challenges when it comes to risk management, particularly in dealing with natural catastrophes such as storms, flooding, or earthquakes.

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Ordering the chaos: how to manage connected risks

Getting to grips with interconnectedness means identifying the intricate links between the threats we face, then mapping, understanding and preparing for them. Our webinar sought to untangle this complex issue. Sara Benwell reports back.

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Construction insurance and surety – better together

While it is uncommon for contractors and project owners to place property and casualty insurance and surety with one carrier, there are great benefits to going ‘all in’, say BHSI’s John Roe and Geo Delisio.

  • Special report: metals and mining risks

  • Special report: managing risks in the APAC fine art market

  • Climate risk survey 2023 results: how to boost board engagement

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  • Airmic 2023: The future of risk management revealed

  • Special report: Climate change

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The boardroom of the future: elevating risk to a strategic priority

As risks grow in complexity—spanning cybersecurity threats, ESG considerations, and geopolitical uncertainties—boards and executive teams are elevating risk management to the forefront of corporate strategy.

  • How to leverage technology to build a new model for risk management

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Why risk managers are turning to parametrics to solve operational challenges

As nat cats grow more severe, insurance gaps are widening - but parametric solutions might hold the key to resilience, says Dianna Nelson, a senior structurer at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

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