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Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The legal battle has just begun over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's final rule lowering the limits of breathable silica, with betting on both sides whether [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Some corporations are beginning to recognize the benefits of connecting their enterprise risk management and business continuity management programs, but hurdles such as divergent vocabularies must be [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Risk managers will be strongly encouraged to optimize their potential and positioning within their organizations at this year's Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc.'s annual conference in [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Insurers remain reluctant to cover cyber risks, leaving some companies to explore insuring the risk in their captives. Given the lack of sufficient historical data, global insurers [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ A federal agency's strong stance against using incentives in workplace safety programs has baffled advocates, although some say employee incentives can be crafted to avoid violating safety [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez MYRISK www.fmglobal.com/page.aspx?id=03030400 A natural disaster is approaching, and a company's CEO asks the risk manager for an assessment of the threats the disaster will pose to the [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is facing significant backlash about costs, uneven applicability and whether it has the authority to develop a new emergency responder [...]

HIV-infected children who have tuberculosis may be less likely to respond to the traditional tuberculosis drugs than HIV-negative children with tuberculosis. This was demonstrated in 204 children with tuberculosis, 26 of whom were HIV-infected. All the children were initially treated with standard tuberculosis treatment. Twenty-nine percent of the HIV-infected children did not respond to this treatment, compared to 3% of the HIV-negative children. Four HIV-infected children who did not respond to the treatment were re-treated for longer periods and responded.

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Some workplace safety lawyers are discouraging employers from using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's website to report severe injuries and fatalities in the workplace for fear [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ A deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant highlights the importance of identifying, addressing and communicating such facilities' unique hazards, particularly since many are in or near [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ More Latin American companies are embracing captive insurers, but some countries' rules and taxes increase the hurdles to establishing a captive. Corporations headquartered in Colombia and Mexico [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Canadian employers, managers and supervisors are on high alert as a result of a jail sentence imposed on a construction project manager in a fatal workplace accident, [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Newly adopted legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario has the potential to significantly raise the costs for employers that participate in its workers compensation program and [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ The international insurance industry is set to play a significant role in fulfilling the promise of the global climate agreement reached in Paris last month, both as [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ States have pursued several different approaches to restrict costly physician dispensing of medications, particularly opioids, often with mixed results. Twenty states changed rules governing reimbursement for physician-dispensed [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Aggressive is the adjective most often used to describe the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration these days, partly due to perceived efforts to blame employers for [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Business Insurance's Women to Watch awards, the magazine recognized three past honorees with Impact Awards for their exceptional contributions to [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez Monica Ningen MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CHIEF PROPERTY UNDERWRITER FOR THE U.S. AND CANADA Swiss Re Americas, a unit of Swiss Re Ltd., Armonk, New York Age: 41 [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez Carrie Barr SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ISO Claims Partners Philadelphia Age: 35 For Carrie Barr, there was a clear choice: Get a job or [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Federal safety and health regulators are encouraging entities at the top of supply chains to adopt standards for their suppliers to reduce workplace injuries, particularly in industries [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez DOUG CAUTI LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. Doug Cauti, senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for construction and national insurance at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in Boston, [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Workplace safety experts had mixed reactions to the split verdict in the trial of a former top official accused in a 2010 explosion that killed 29 coal [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Employers with Ontario-based workforces face new mandates designed to break down barriers to hiring the disabled and encourage current employees who have not disclosed disabilities to seek [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Ongoing confusion about the reliability of risk transfer agreements and an unskilled and aging workforce are the major risks facing the construction sector, but cyber liability is [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Fee schedules are a valuable cost-containment tool in workers compensation programs, although they raise questions about potential restrictions on injured employees' access to care. Most states have [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Employers and their workers compensation insurers generally have the right to conduct surveillance of injured workers, but there should be legitimate reasons to do so, and such [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Risk managers need to be on the front lines of preparing their organizations to deal with climate change, including keeping up on emerging environmental risks and case [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez MATT WIENER 29 Vice president-insurance adviser USI Insurance Services L.L.C. Matt Wiener was considering a career as a financial adviser after graduating from Boston University with a [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez CHARLEY HOLLIMON 38 Managing director Wortham Insurance & Risk Management But for a twist of fate, Charley Hollimon could have been an Enron guy. Mr. Hollimon, a [...]

Byline: Gloria Gonzalez TANNER BURNS 29 Area president Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Tanner Burns knew nothing about the insurance or brokerage industry when he came across the Gallagher Sales [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ California's workers compensation reforms have increased benefits for injured workers while simultaneously reducing medical benefit costs. S.B. 863, which took effect Jan. 1, 2013, increased compensation for [...]