Risk Management Magazine (12/1/2021)
For regulated institutions, compliance audits can happen any time and be prompted by many different stakeholders, including internal teams, regulatory bodies or potential partners looking to mitigate their own risk.

PropertyCasualty360 (12/20/2021)
For regulated institutions, compliance audits can happen any time and be prompted by many different stakeholders, including internal teams, regulatory bodies or potential partners looking to mitigate their own risk. 

AP News (12/21/2021)
The nation’s second-largest city called off its New Year’s Eve celebration, and its smallest state re-imposed an indoor mask mandate as the omicron variant leaped ahead of other variants to become the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S.

Canadian Underwriter (12/17/2021)
It’s a common misconception that “everything is completely gone” if you’re in the path of a destructive wildfire, said Michael Young, vice president of model product management with Risk Management Solutions Inc. (RMS). 

PropertyCasualty360 (12/20/2021)
COVID-19 may have carried most of the headlines again in 2021 but flooding across America and issues related to flood insurance continued to make the news as well.

Insurance Journal (12/20/2021)
Insurance and technology are like oil and water, they don’t mix well. During the 1990s and 2000s, the industry was replete with reports that automation was going to change the business model.

Cnet.com (12/16/2021)
Interference from 5G signals using C-band spectrum could lead to flight disruptions, airline execs warn. Wireless carriers and FCC experts aren't so sure.

Asia Insurance Review (12/15/2021)
Extreme weather events in 2021, including a deep winter freeze, floods, severe thunderstorms, heatwaves and a major hurricane, resulted in annual insured losses from natural catastrophes estimated at $105bn, the fourth highest since 1970, according to Swiss Re Institute's preliminary sigma estimates.

Insurance Journal
A Texas jury has awarded a largely symbolic settlement of more than $301 billion in a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi bar brought by the family of a woman and her 16-year-old granddaughter who were killed in a car crash with a drunken driver.

We wish you and your family a happy and safe holiday season. RIMS will close for the holidays on December 27, 2021. We will return on January 3, 2022. You can always access our risk management resources online.

 

RIMScast
Listen to this new RIMScast episode with Dr. Adrian Hyzler, the chief medical officer of HX Global. He provides a well-rounded update on COVID-19, how travel risk management has changed in 2021, the development surrounding the malaria vaccine in Africa and its positive worldwide impact, and what risk professionals should keep top-of-mind as we look to 2022.