Risk Reports
The Green Built Environment in the United States: The State of the Insurance Marketplace
This report establishes a foundation for tracking the insurance marketplace's response to the green built environment.
Insurance Market Report
The U.S. Insurance Market Report Midyear Update 2008 details trends in the overall property/casualty industry, reinsurance, major coverage lines, specialty lines, and specific industries, with an eye to what effect, if any, economic turmoil and uncertainty may be having on them.
Excellence in Risk Management
Marsh and the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) have co-sponsored surveys of risk managers to determine how companies are managing and optimizing their risks in an increasingly risky world. There have been five annual surveys, beginning in 2004, all focusing on excellence in risk management.
Limits of Liability
This benchmarking report discusses trends in liability awards, provides analysis of limits and premium costs based on over 7,200 companies in 58 countries, and offers items for consideration in the excess liability purchasing decision process.
Casualty Cost of Risk
This benchmarking report focuses on the three most commonly purchased lines of primary casualty insurance: workers compensation, general liability, and auto liability.
Inflationary Pricing Threatening to Destabilize Some Supply Chains
This report from Marsh's Supply Chain Risk Management Practice finds that higher oil prices plus rising food and other commodity prices are creating significant upward pricing pressures at the same time that companies and their suppliers are struggling to adjust to the global credit crunch.
Stemming the Rising Tide of Supply Chain Risks: How Risk Managers' Roles and Responsibilities Are Changing
While an overwhelming majority of North American companies sees risks associated with their supply chains as having grown more significant, complex, and costly, they also consider themselves largely unprepared to deal with these elevated exposures.
Marsh Oil and Gas Risk Report: 2008
The Marsh Energy Practice and leading industry experts produced this report, which explores risk issues across the global oil & gas sector, but more critically, the risk landscape under which National Oil Companies operate.
M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities and Risks
This report captures insights from 670 C-suite/senior executives from organizations around the world about their attitudes on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Risk Talk: Building a Resilient Supply Chain
Supply chain disruptions can arise from a number of external and internal sources, ranging from natural disasters to poorly executed operations. In this issue of Risk Talk, experts from Marsh and other leading companies discuss strategies for effectively managing supply chain risks.
Risk Management Implications of Pay for Performance
This publication from Marsh's HealthCare Practice discusses the potential financial impact the pay for performance initiative will have on health care providers and payers and what health care industry executives can do to find the upside in pay for performance.
Marsh Risk Journal
A collection of research and commentary, Marsh Risk Journal is intended to illustrate the changing nature of risk management and highlight our viewpoint on a few challenging and pervasive issues.
Global Risks Report
Marsh and its MMC sister companies work with the World Economic Forum and organizations such as Citigroup, Swiss Re, and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School Risk Center to produce the Global Risks Report, which
identifies major global risks, assesses their economic impact, and develops mitigation solutions.
Understanding China's Business Risks
With its booming economy, huge manufacturing base, enormous supply of natural resources, and expanding consumer spending, it's no surprise that China is high on the agenda for many businesses.But with opportunities come risks.
Terrorism Risk Insurance
Companies should be planning strategies for managing terrorism risk post-TRIA. Marsh's Marketwatch: Terrorism Insurance 2006 is designed to help clients address terrorism risk issues despite the uncertainties.
Terrorism Insurance Market Solutions for NBCR Exposures
Terrorism loss arising out of a nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological (NBCR) attack is a major concern of many insureds. This report discusses various NBCR solutions and products available in the marketplace
Preparing for the 2007 Hurricane Season
Natural disaster experts urge anyone living, working, or owning property or a business in an area subject to hurricane strikes — as well as those who could be hurt by the wider socio-economic impacts — to take action now to prepare for the hurricane season.
Climate Change Risk
Climate change — often referred to as "global warming" — is one of the most significant emerging risks facing the world today, presenting huge challenges to the environment and to the world economy. It is also one of the most difficult risks to mitigate.
Avian Flu Update
It has now been more than a year since avian flu first appeared on risk managers' list of concerns. If the H5N1 strain of avian flu mutates to allow easy human-to-human transmission, a worldwide pandemic could result in millions of deaths, and business damages could reach hundreds of billions of dollars.
Benchmark Reports
Education Risk Benchmark Report
Our Education Risk Benchmark Report compares the risk management and insurance programs of more than 150 buyers of insurance products in the educational sector in the United States and combines our most current benchmarking data into a single document.
Health Care Risk Benchmark Report
This new annual benchmark study compares the risk management and insurance programs of more than 600 buyers of insurance products in the health care industry in the United States, and combines our most current benchmarking data into one single and uniform document focused on the health care industry.
Mobile and Industrial Equipment Manufacturing Risk Benchmark Report
This benchmark study compares the risk management and insurance programs of more than 430 buyers of insurance products in the mobile and industrial equipment manufacturing industry in the United States and combines our most current benchmarking data into a single document focused on the heavy manufacturing industry.
Captives Risk Benchmark Report
This comprehensive study, with data collected from 900 owned captives, provides a background on captive formation, the top domiciles, profiles of industries and companies that use captives and types of business underwritten.
Retail/Wholesale Risk Benchmark Report
The seventh report in the series of Marsh's industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the retail/wholesale industry.
Automotive Risk Benchmark Report
The seventh report in the series of Marsh's industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the automotive industry.
Communications, Media, and Technology Risk Benchmark Report
The sixth, and so far the largest, report in the series of Marsh's industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the communications, media, and technology industry.
Real Estate Risk Benchmark Report
The fifth report in the series of Marsh's industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the real estate industry.
Financial Institutions Risk Benchmark Report
The fourth report in the series of Marsh's industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the financial institutions industry.
Power and Utilities Risk Benchmark Report
This third report in Marsh's series of industry risk benchmark studies focuses on the power and utilities industry. More than 300 companies are studied, and information on all the major lines of coverage is provided.
Chemicals Risk Benchmark Report
The Marsh U.S. Chemicals Industry Practice has produced a new annual benchmark study, which compares the insurance and risk management programs of more than 160 chemicals industry companies.
Construction Risk Benchmark Report
Marsh's Construction Practice has produced a new annual benchmark study, which compares the risk management and insurance programs of more than 200 buyers of insurance products in the construction industry in the United States.
International Bulletins
Insurance Market in Costa Rica Set To Open
A new bill opening Costa Rica's nearly century-old insurance monopoly was recently signed into law. This bulletin provides an overview of the new law.
Legislative Update: Direct Offshore Foreign Insurers in Australia
The Australian federal government has released its final guidelines regarding the purchase of insurance products from unauthorized foreign insurers. The bulletin describes the guidelines and how the new regulations are expected to affect commercial buyers of insurance.
New Consumer Protection Bill in South Africa
A new "Consumer Protection Bill" in South Africa may have far reaching implications for businesses, potentially dramatically increasing their liabilities and need for appropriate insurance. This International Bulletin highlights the section of the bill that discusses product liability and the potential insurance implications.
Environmental Liability Regulations in Spain
A new environmental liability law was passed in Spain and is retroactively applicable from April 30, 2007. The bulletin provides an overview of the new legislation.
Workmen's Compensation Insurance in Singapore and the WICA Amendment
Effective April 1, 2008, Singapore's Workmens' Compensation Act (WCA) was replaced by the Work Injury Compensation Act (WICA). The amendment expands the scope of coverage to include more employees and enhances the efficiency of the compensation process.
Detariff Regulations in the Indian Insurance Market: An Update
This bulletin provides a brief overview of the detariff process, including new rules and regulations. The detariff process began on January 1, 2007, and has been implemented in phases.
New Regulations Published for Brazilian Reinsurance Market
The reinsurance market in Brazil is undergoing significant changes as it moves from a monopolistic to an open market. This report discusses the new published rules, which effectively end the monopoly and how these new regulations are expected to affect the Brazilian reinsurance market.
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Newsletters
Captives Updates
This newsletter provides up to date global captive news, inlcuding domicile, country, and general updates.
Drill Bits
Drill Bits focuses on emerging energy industry risk trends. It is intended to keep readers better informed about risk issues that could affect the operations or purchasing decisions of energy companies. Every issue contains articles on topical issues, case studies, industry news, and events.
FINPRO Insights
This quarterly newsletter from Marsh's financial and professional liability practice focuses on how recent events, legislation, and trends can affect financial and professional insurance decisions.
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