What don’t the Queensland floods and the Christchurch earthquake have in common? Well besides the obvious flood vs earthquake, there are lots of glaring dissimilarities in terms of government risk financing for catastrophic events. New Zealand has the Earthquake Commission (EQC) which pays for damage for losses on residential properties from earthquake, natural landslip, volcanic,
More research that suggests our appearance is a key factor in our ability to influence others – this one is specific to women – blondes vs brunettes in fact. My December newsletter was on Risk Leadership and how to be heard at the top. In it I did not mention the importance of your appearance,
Last week I ran a training course on Liabilities, Indemnities, Warranties and Insurance. The most important lesson I learned (I always like to learn when training!) is the incredible breadth of expertise required to cover this topic. I had senior legal counsels, senior insurance buyers and senior risk managers on the course as well as
The Marsh Business Breakfast Briefing at the RMIA National Conference brought together some big names in the business for a panel discussion hosted by Scott Leney from Marsh. The panellists were Eamonn Cunningham from Westfield, Matthew Frost from BHP Billiton, Chris Townsend from Chartis and Mike Mitchell from Swiss Re. One of the topics raised
Last week I attended RMIA 2010 at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre in Sydney. I am particularly biased about how great it was as I was on the organising committee, however, I have been going to these conferences for many years and the quality of the content was definitely the best from my perspective. So