All Liabilities articles – Page 7

  • Features

    Not so smart …

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Using a mobile phone can be a risky business. But while any link with cancer is still to be proved, there is no doubt about the dangers of driving and using a hand-held and the phones’ vulnerability to security lapses, writes Andrew Leslie

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    Special Report: Property Risk

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Robust property risk management practices may call for serious investment in loss protection – but the benefi ts for the corporate bottom line can often more than compensate

  • Features

    New world order

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Corporate multinational property insurance programmes can provide signifi cant cost and control benefi ts – but risk managers should be aware of the potential pitfalls

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    Plight of the honeybee

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Pesticides, parasites, disease – the growing list of aggressors against the humble honeybee is causing the population to die out and, Emily Miller warns, the ramifi cations will be huge

  • Features

    Still some way to go

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    StrategicRISK’s latest benchmarking survey indicates that, while many organisations are seeing the benefi ts from enterprise risk management, a signifi cant number still have some distance to cover before it is fi rmly embedded in their corporate culture

  • Features

    How to: Make sure you're ready to face the judges

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    When Standard & Poor’s added risk management to its credit rating assessment, some doubted it had the credibility to properly judge the discipline. But as a good rating is vital to success, says Nathan Skinner, does your ERM do enough to impress the panel?

  • Features

    Special Report: Environmental risk

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Don’t be fooled by the EU’s new environment directive. Each member state has its own take on the new environmental accountability rules. And the onus is very much on multinational companies to get to grips with what each country is serving up – to ensure they are adequately covered across ...

  • Features

    Environmental Special Report: Going green is key

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    The Environmental Liability Directive has brought with it a new urgency to take environment risk seriously. Despite other financial pressures, companies can’t afford to let green issues slip down the priority list

  • Features

    The first line of defence

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    The effects of a blaze in a large building or facility go beyond just safety and structural damage, and can be ruinous – to the local infrastructure, economy and environment. But installing sprinkler protection could take businesses out of the line of fi re, says FM Global’s Brendan MacGrath

  • Features

    Continental shift

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    The Environmental Liability Directive has been on the agenda for years, but now that it has reached all corners of Europe, multinational organisations no longer have any excuse for turning a blind eye to the consequences of their environmental actions

  • Features

    Time to clean up your cover

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    While regulations bringing in the ‘polluter pays’ principle came into force in the EU some three years ago, experts fear many companies think only ‘heavy’ industries are at risk. Just relying on your public liability policy could end in fi nancial disaster

  • Features

    A model career

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    Times are bountiful for the LEGO Group, but it’s not all rosy, explains Hans Læssøe, the company’s head of strategic risk

  • Analysis

    Buncefield teachings

    2010-08-22T00:00:00Z

    What risk managers must learn from Buncefield

  • Turkey, Istanbul
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    Trends in the emerging world

    2010-08-20T11:04:00Z

    Growing emerging market economies offer significant opportunities, says Eurasia Group

  • Interviews

    Food most at risk in Afghanistan

    2010-08-20T10:34:00Z

    Afghanistan and Africa topped a food security risk index

  • A handful of cassiterite, or tin ore. Armed groups in the DRC are believed to generate $130m a year by trading it. By Mark Craemer
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    DRC mine riot creates backlog

    2010-08-19T16:46:00Z

    Illegal miners burn trucks and loot offices

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    BP fined $50.6m for blast

    2010-08-19T10:09:00Z

    Penalty stems from 2005 explosion at Texas City

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    Mazda recalls 300,000 cars

    2010-08-18T13:49:00Z

    North American recall due to a fault with power steering

  • Guardian Datablog
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    Who is recovering fastest?

    2010-08-17T16:47:00Z

    This detailed graphic shows which economies are recovering from the recession quickest

  • Graphics

    Infographic: Bank failures since 2008

    2010-08-17T10:19:00Z

    Hundreds of US banks have failed since the credit crunch climax