WBN ADDS LEADING CONSULTING ENGINEERING COMPANY RISK LOGIC TO ITS NETWORK
San Francisco, March 25, 2021 – The Worldwide Broker Network™ (WBN), the world’s largest global network of independent insurance and benefits brokers, is today announcing a new associate member, Risk Logic (RLI) a consulting engineering company that provides loss prevention services.
Risk Logic’s leading consultation…
San Francisco, March 9th, 2021 – The Worldwide Broker Network™ (WBN), the world’s largest global network of independent insurance and benefits brokers, announces the appointment of Olga Collins as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective April 12. Collins succeeds Francie Starnes, who will serve as CEO Emeritus through 2021.
Collins joins WBN from its member firm Beecher Carlson,…
San Francisco, February 25, 2021 – The Worldwide Broker Network™ (WBN), the world’s largest global network of independent insurance and benefits brokers, is today announcing a new associate member, StempleCrites LLC.
The addition of StempleCrites’ premier valuation consulting expertise will allow WBN’s members to extend a full slate of valuation services to their international…
Benefits crucial in wellbeing delivery
The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the health and wellbeing of employees. Results from our survey “Wellbeing in 2021: Global Mobility’s next big challenge” revealed 92% of respondents agreed that wellbeing was placed at the forefront of HR strategy in the last 12 months.
Our research revealed cost (24%) as the…
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By Henry Clark – Head of Financial & Professional Risk
KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM FY20: Q4?
The recent spate of foreign cyber attacks against Australian organisations has put cyber exposures in Australia under the microscope. As a result, cyber related claims are expected to increase, particularly with more Australians now working from home and relying…
Take control of escalating workers' comp costs with Nodal
Risk & Insurance® discussed the results of a survey conducted at the December 2018 NWCDC Expo of 512 workers’ compensation professionals. Those surveyed said their number one concern was the rising cost of care. Almost half of them said the escalating cost was the biggest challenge facing their workers’ comp programs…
Over recent years, the importance of workplace pension scheme governance in the UK has increased significantly. With the introduction of automatic enrolment legislation, which became effective from October 2012 onwards, all employers are required to provide a pension scheme to employees. Now that many of these pension schemes have been in place for some time, employers should be…
Economically it’s become very apparent over the recent past that we live in a global village; local events can, and do, have global consequences. The 2008 UK recession was directly connected to US housing loans. Brexit uncertainty not only impacts the UK and Europe but also business and economies around the world.
This connectivity can also be related to employee benefits with many…
Asking for help can be hard — for many reasons. Perhaps it's because we feel it shows weakness, or we're afraid of imposing on someone, or we're just stubborn and want to figure things out on our own. Yet, asking for help, in big ways and small, is something we all have to…
Investing in employee safety and cybersecurity is not optional for a business with an international footprint — it’s a must. In the global business world, this is about risk mitigation and as such the question becomes: how to do it and to what degree? Keeping employees and company data safe is a complex undertaking that requires a deliberate effort to combine deeper cultural knowledge of a host…