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Supply Chain Management Critical During a Pandemic
Excerpted from Business Insurance: "Experts Urge Calm, Say Firms Must Assess Workforce, Supply Risk"
4 May 2009
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Companies Need to Prepare for Possible Bandwidth Issues for Remote Workers During a Pandemic
Excerpted from Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: "Flu Scare is Wake-Up Call"
3 May 2009
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Companies Should Broaden Their Risk Perspective to Keep Supply Chains Lean and Resilient
Excerpted from CFO Magazine: "Ready for Anything"
April 2009
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Better Integration of ERM Into Business Required Says Marsh-GMI Report
Excerpted from Treasury & Risk: "Enterprise Risk Management: A Daily Exercise"
17 March 2009
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Risk Managers’ Options in Responding to Increased Supply Chain Risks
Excerpted from Business Insurance: "Financial Crisis Adds to Supply-Chain Risk"
9 February 2009
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Outside Threats That Could Cause Business Disruption Should Be Addressed with Detailed Planning
Excerpted from The Times: "If You Can Meet with Triumph and Disaster"
20 January 2009
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Increasingly Global Food Supply Chain Demands Proactive and Reliable Risk Management Systems
Excerpted from MMC Viewpoint: "Food-Safety Strategies: How to Protect Your Company and Your Consumers"
January 2009
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Supplier Reviews Essential for Maintaining Business Flows in Tumultuous Economic Times
Excerpted from IndustryWeek Manufacturing Business Challenge: "Weakest Link"
January 2009
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Economic Turmoil Renews Emphasis on Supply Chain and Logistics Risk Management
Excerpted from Traffic World: "Managing in a Crisis"
1 December 2008
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Desired End Result Should Dictate the Requirements of a Risk Assessment Process
Excerpted from Manufacturing.net: "The Risky Business Of Risk Assessment"
22 November 2008
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Construction Project Risk Management Can Produce Better Outcomes
Excerpted from Insurance Day: "Mounting Claims Switch Focus to Minimising Risk"
8 September 2008
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Rising Cost of Energy Can Be Tamed With Risk Management Solutions
Excerpted from Canadian Underwriter: "Rising Cost of Fuel Top Risk Facing Supply Chains"
3 September 2008
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Survey: Manufacturers' Control Over Supply Chain Security May Need To Be Revisited
Excerpted from Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: "Weak Links"
September 2008
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Key to Optimizing Free-Trade Pacts for Importers Is Technology
Excerpted from Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies: "Free-Trade Pacts Create Challenges and Opportunities for Importers"
14 August 2008
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Complex Global Food Network Creates Ripe Environment for Contamination Issues and Product Recalls
Excerpted from Best's Review: "Recipe for Disaster"
1 July 2008
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Pre-planning Can Turn Negative and Emotionally Charged Events Into Positive Opportunities
Excerpted from Shanghai Business Review: "Effective Business Continuity Planning"
July 2008
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Risk Management Not Consistently Part of Strategy Development Process for Executives
Excerpted from Business Insurance: "Risk Management Not Yet Boardroom Issue: Survey"
23 June 2008
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Organizations Should Focus on Evaluating Critical Suppliers
Excerpted from Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies: "Team Approach Needed to Counter Risks to Supply Chain"
13 June 2008
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Reality Rarely Matches Expectations in Crises
Excerpted from Forbes: "Care After Catastrophe"
5 June 2008
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Marsh Acquires Nielsen-Wurster Group
With the acquisition of the Nielsen-Wurster Group, Marsh expands its global construction claims & dispute resolution capabilities.
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Workplace Health and Safety Practices Receiving More Attention from Italian Executives
Excerpted from Business Insurance: "Tough Italian Law May Raise Safety Standards"
2 June 2008
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Global Supply Chains Require Close Information Management
Excerpted from World Trade Magazine: "Intermodal Kicks Into High Gear"
1 June 2008
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New Proposals by Singapore Stock Exchange Drive Home Importance of BCP for Companies
Excerpted from Business Times Singapore: "SGX's Business Continuity Plan Gets Mixed Response"
1 June 2008
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Sub Prime Crisis Forces Organizations to Reevaluate Outdated ERM Practices
Excerpted from TREASURY & RISK MAGAZINE: "Time to Bail on ERM?"
June 2008
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Consultants Warn Hospitals About Common Medication Storage Mistakes
Excerpted from Decision Health: "Inside the Joint Commission"
26 May 2008
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Proactively Evaluating Supply Chain Failure Scenarios Vital to Managing Disruptive Events
Excerpted from Financial Week: "The Endless Quest for Indestructible Supply Chain"
5 May 2008
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Backward Visibility in Product Date Coding Can Dramatically Limit Scope of a Recall
Excerpted from Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies: "'Be Prepared' Is Motto that All Companies Should Follow When It Comes to Recalls"
5 May 2008
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Companies Can Better Manage Chemical Facility Standards by Securing Information, Assessing Site Vulnerability
Excerpted from ICIS ChemicalBusiness: "CFATS: How To Meet the New Antiterrorism Standards"
24 March 2008
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Review of Governance Practices and Risk Management Approaches May Be in Order as ERM Application Expands
Excerpted from Financial Executive: "Ratings Agencies Eye ERM for All Industries"
March 2008
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Managing Extended Supply Chain Risk Requires Monitoring and Active Mitigation
Excerpted from Treasury & Risk Magazine: "Fixes for Broken China"
March 2008
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Though Reputation Is An Important Asset, Still More Work to Be Done to Reduce Risks and Manage Impacts
Excerpted from Post Magazine: "Risk Report — Brand on the run"
8 November 2007
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Understanding All Aspects of Product Recall and Product Liability Can Help Minimize the Impacts of a Recall Event
Excerpted from Asia Insurance Review: "Country Profile — China: Managing China’s Product Recall Crisis"
November 2007
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Insurance and Mitigation Measures Can Help Support Product Recall Defenses
Excerpted from CNBC: "Being Locally Insured"
17 October 2007
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Forensic Accounting and Accurate Valuations Can Help Unlock Operating Cash Post-Disaster
Excerpted from Caribbean Business: "Marsh Saldana Offers Forensic Accounting & Claims Service"
15 October 2007
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High- and Low-Risk Facilities Handling Chemicals Face New Security Regulations
Excerpted from ISM e-Digest: Chemicals: "New DHS Regulations Encompass Wider Range of 'Chemical' Facilities"
October 2007
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Success in Recalls Dependent on Pre-Established Policies
Excerpted from Treasury & Risk: "Preventive Measures"
October 2007
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Global Interdependency Dictates Need for Pandemic Planning
Excerpted from Canadian Underwriter: "Pandemic Overdue, Warns Marsh"
27 September 2007
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Regular Testing for Lead and Other Production Risks Can Help Reassure Consumers About Safety
Excerpted from USA Today: "Lead Use Can Be Accidental, or Not"
3 August 2007
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Product Safety Depends on Product Testing at Different Stages of Manufacturing
Excerpted from USA Today: "Agency Chief To Seek More Tools To Block Unsafe Products"
15 July 2007
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Companies Should Do More to Account for Risk in Their Supply Chains
Excerpted from Business Review Weekly: "Long Supply Chains Stretch Risk"
5 July 2007
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Businesses Need to Consider the Impacts of Disruptions, Not Just Focus on Risks
Excerpted from Assisted Living Executive: "Lessons Learned from Crisis: How to Pick up the Pieces and Return to Business as Usual when Business-as-Usual May No Longer Exist "
July 2007
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Knowing Suppliers and Testing Helps Prevent, Mitigate Recall Risks Associated with Outsourcing
Excerpted from FinancialWeek: "Toymaker’s Recall Shows Need To Get the Lead Out"
25 June 2007
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Many Preparedness and Recovery Lessons Left To Be Learned from Hurricane Katrina
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: "For Many Businesses, Katrina Is a Case Study"
6 June 2007
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Preparation and Plan Flexibility Key to Managing the Impacts of Hurricanes
Excerpted from CQ Homeland Security: "Companies Can Ease Hurricane Damage Through Planning"
1 June 2007
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Know Your Global Suppliers to Help Ensure Food Safety
Excerpted from CFO Magazine: "Food Fights"
June 2007
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Infrared Imaging Technology Helps Property Managers Discover Energy Losses, Reduce Equipment Failure
Excerpted from Journal of Property Management: "Image Conscious"
May/June 2007
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Advanced Planning Needed to Prevent Panic, Reputation Damage in Product Recall Situation
Excerpted from The Record: "Getting Recalls Right"
11 March 2007
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Despite Experience with Serious Disruptions, Survey Shows Corp. Preparedness Remains Low
Excerpted from Business Finance: "Upfront: Coping with a Crisis"
March 2007
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Planning, Sound Judgment, and Attention to Detail Key to Ensuring Safe Resident Transportation
Excerpted from McKnight's Long-Term Care News: "Transportation Feature: Safe, Not Sorry "
7 February 2007
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Climate Change Challenges Corporate Leaders
Excerpted from MMC Viewpoint: "A Change in the Weather — New Climate Change Challenges Increase the Potential for Litigation and Regulation"
January 2007
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Corporate Leaders Must Be Ready for Potentially Severe Impacts
Excerpted from Corporate Board Member: "Is Your Company Prepared for Bird Flu?"
January/February 2007
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Keeping Staff from Home in a Pandemic Could Prove Difficult
Excerpted from ComputerWorld: "Data Center Quarantines Might Not Be Workable"
1 January 2007
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Just-in-Time Manufacturing Helps Maintain Profit Margins But Erodes Supply Chain Safety Margin
Excerpted from Risk & Insurance: "RISK REPORT: The Manufacturing Industry Margin Calls"
1 January 2007
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In Analyzing Risk Look to What Creates Organizational Value
Excerpted from World Trade: "Security on Steroids: Risky Business"
2 November 2006
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Balanced Business and Financial Decisions Needed in Supplier Relationships
Excerpted from Strategic Risk: "Managing Risk in Global Supply Chains"
November 2006
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Prospect of Pandemic Has States Looking to IT for Solutions
Excerpted from STATETECH: "Out Sick"
October/November 2006
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Emergency Management Exercise at School Highlights Community's Preparation Levels
Excerpted from the Pioneer Press: "School Prepares for the Worst — Drill Brings Police, Students, Staff Together for Mock Shooting"
13 October 2006
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Risk Management Challenges Increase as Number of Alzheimer's, Dementia Residents Rises
Excerpted from McKnight's Long-Term Care News: "Risk Management Feature — Taking a Gamble"
8 September 2006
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Understanding Supply Chain Exposures, Interdependencies Results in Better Risk Management
Excerpted from Inside Supply Management: "Mitigate Risk, Sustain Supply"
September 2006
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Pandemic Preparation: Facility Operators Should Focus on Business Relationships, People
Excerpted from Building Operating Management: "Preparing for a Bird Flu-based Pandemic"
August 2006
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Organizations Must Remain Committed to Business Continuity Management
Excerpted from The Financial Times: "Business Continuity and Risk Management"
26 July 2006
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Employee Absenteeism, Lack of Avian Flu Vaccine Could Impact Business Continuity Plans
Excerpted from The Honolulu Advertiser: "Businesses Warned of Pandemic"
27 April 2006
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Pandemics Pose Unique Challenges for Supermarkets
Excerpted from Supermarket News: "Retailers Making Bird Flu Plans Just in Case"
17 April 2006
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Business Continuity Plans Must Address Several Risks Beyond IT
Excerpted from Global Services: "Planning for the Worst"
27 March 2006
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Experts' Perspectives on Avian Flu
Excerpted from Knowlege@Wharton "Avian Flu: What to Expect and How Companies Can Prepare for It"
22 February 2006
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Not Only Large Companies Need Business Continuity Strategies
Excerpted from The Conference Board Executive Action Series: "Preparing for the Worst: A Guide to Business Continuity Planning for Mid-Markets"
February 2006
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Several Risks Threaten Retailers' Bottom Lines
Excerpted from Western Reporter: "Retail Industry Faces Wide Range of Risks"
February 2006
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Loss Measurement Programs Are Key to Recovering from Hurricanes and Other Catastrophes
Excerpted from CFMA Building Profits: "Quantifying Damages After a Catastrophe"
January/February 2006
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Avian Flu Threat Requires Organizations to Develop Highly Specific Response Plans
Excerpted from Continuity Insights: "Avian Flu: Preparing for a Potential Pandemic"
January/February 2006
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Avian Flu Pandemic Would Spawn Numerous Insurance-Coverage Questions
Excerpts from Business Insurance: "Potential Avian Flu Pandemic Raises Insurance Questions"
2 January 2006
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Controlling Workers' Comp. Costs Requires Managing Medical Expenditures
Excerpted from Business Finance: "New Challenges in Workers' Compensation"
January 2006
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With Rising Building Material Costs, Many Properties May Be Under-Insured
Excerpted from CFMA Building Profits: "The Hidden Impact of Rising Material Costs"
September/October 2005
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Preparing for a Food Contamination Incident
Excerpted from The Grocer (UK): "You Can't Be Too Careful"
28 May 2005
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Moving Beyond Insurance for Food Contamination Incidents
Excerpted from Food Navigator: "Risk Management Advice Soothes Food Recall Dangers and Disasters?"
27 May 2005
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Europeans Begin to Adopt U.S.-Style Product Safety Rules
Excerpted from Product Safety & Liability Reporter: "New European Union Product Recall Rules and Regulations Follow U.S. Model"
21 February 2005
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Developing an Effective Product Recall Plan
Excerpted from Product Safety & Liability Reporter: "Preparing for and Conducting a Product Recall"
24 January 2005
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Managing Product Recalls
Excerpted from Legal Times: "Digging in for the Long Haul"
6 December 2004
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Dubai Emerges as a Web Host Option in the Middle East
Excerpted from Web Host Industry Review: "International Opportunities in Web Hosting"
October/November 2004
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Analyzing the Security Strategies at the Political Conventions
Excerpted from Continuity Insights: "BCP Leads in the Polls at 2004 Conventions"
September/October 2004
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Improving Safety and Security in Schools
Excerpted from American School & University magazine: "Beefing Up Security"
1 September 2004
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NYC Building Owners Should Consider Property Risk Assessments
Excerpted from Banker & Tradesman:
"New Building Codes Impact High-Rise Design, Construction"
30 August 2004
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California Clamps Down on Workers' Comp Costs
Excerpted from the CFO Magazine: "'California Dreamin'?"
August 2004
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Continuity and Emergency Preparedness Around Major Events
Excerpted from Business Insurance"'The Dems Are Coming!' So Boston Gets Ready"
26 July 2004
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Marsh & McLennan Companies Completes Acquisition of Kroll Inc.
As Kroll is integrated into the Marsh family of MMC companies, Marsh becomes a major, global provider of risk consulting services, able to assist organizations with virtually any risk-related challenge.
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Behavior Safety Programs Help Reduce Workplace Injuries
Excerpted from ErgoSolutions Magazine "Designing Your Operation to Promote Safe Behaviors, Increase Productivity"
28 May 2004
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Long Term Care Facilities Face New Emergency Management Requirements
Excerpted from Contemporary Long Term Care: "To Prepare for an Emergency"
May/June 2004
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Marsh & McLennan Companies to Acquire Kroll, Inc.
The $1.9 billion transaction enhances MMC's position as the world's leading provider of risk services.
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Implementing California's Workers' Comp Reforms Will Take Time
Excerpted from The Sacramento Bee: "How Will Workers' Comp Overhaul Play Out?"
29 April 2004
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Tennessee Employers and Workers Struggle With Workers' Comp System
Excerpted from The Commercial Appeal: "Workers' Comp System Fails All Parties"
29 April 2004
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California Faces Low Back-To-Work Record
Excerpted from The San Diego Union-Tribune: "Insurers Fault Firms on Rehiring of Injured"
25 April 2004
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California's Worker's Comp Reform Could Drive Competition for Insurers
Excerpted from the Los Angeles Business Journal: "Will Reform Lure Carriers Back to Workers' Comp?"
26 April 2004
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Tennessee Workers' Comp Costs Surge
Excerpted from the Nashville Business Journal: "It's Time for Workers' Comp Changes"
16 April 2004
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California's Workers' Comp Bill Could Bring Savings to Businesses
Excerpted from the Los Angeles Times: "Workers' Comp Bill Elicits Wary Optimism"
17 April 2004
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Identifying Critical Business Functions Helps Organizations Prepare for Disaster
Marsh's John Copenhaver discusses disaster recovery strategies in an interview with The Interpreter, the Insurance Accounting & System Association's newsletter.
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Using Business Continuity to Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley
Excerpted from the Disaster Recovery Journal: "Business Continuity in a Sarbanes-Oxley World"
Spring 2004
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California's Attempts to Fix Workers' Comp Fall Short
Excerpted from the Sacramento Business Journal: "Workers Comp Still Needs Sweeping Changes"
and reprinted in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal: "Workers' Comp Needs Basic Reforms"
26 March 2004
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Marsh's Risk Consulting Practice Ranked Largest in Its Industry
Excerpted from Business Insurance: "Largest Overall Risk Firms"
23 February 2004
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Time to Re-think California's Workers' Compensation System
Reprinted from The Sacramento Bee:
6 February 2004
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How Workplace Safety Has Evolved
Excerpted from American Society of Safety Engineers World Focus: "A Study of Brazilian Accidents"
Winter 2004
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U.S. Power Infrastructure Poses Risks to Businesses
Excerpted from Continuity Insights: "Emerging Risk: Are We Prepared Enough?"
November/December 2003
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Preparing for Future Blackouts
Excerpted from Contingency Planning & Management: "Q&A About Blackout Preparedness"
November/December 2003
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Greater Healthcare Utilization Drives Workers' Comp Costs Higher
Excerpted from Crain's New York Business: "More Chiropractic Visits Put Strain on Employers"
10 November 2003
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Perspectives on Tort Reform
Excerpted from CFO: "Unequal Justice"
November 2003
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Advance Planning is Key to Avoiding Plant-Shutdown Problems
Excerpted from Plant Engineering and Maintenance: "Avoid Trouble — Communication and Planning Are Key to a Plant Shutdown Strategy"
November 2003
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Selecting an Effective Behavior-Based Safety Process
Excerpted from Professional Safety: "Multisite Success with Systematic BBS"
June 2003
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Mitigating Mold-Related Risks
Excerpted from American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Strata: "What's the Big Deal about Mold?"
April 2003
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Rising Workers' Comp Costs
Excerpted from Treasury & Risk Management: "Oh Those Unmanageable Workers' Comp Costs!"
February 2003
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