Category Archives: Supply-Chain Risk
Horsemeat Contamination in the Supply Chain
The horsemeat food scandal in the UK underscores the need for supply chain insurance products which provide adequate protection for quality issues.
Continue reading →What Risks Will Emerge in 2013?
We look ahead for the risks businesses should prepare for in 2013. Read their predictions and vote for the one most likely to affect your business this year.
Continue reading →Our Scariest Brazilian Risk – Cargo Transport in Brazil: A White-Knuckle Ride
The statistics in the Brazilian cargo transport market are really scary. Many companies need to transport products within Brazil, whether import or export, but the risks are high for vehicles on Brazil’s roads, increasing the insurance and the goods carried …
Continue reading →Hurricane Sandy Will Reveal the Cost of Poor Supply Chain Management
Once the full extent of the damage from Sandy is analysed, I have no doubt we will see large business interruption (BI) losses and again we will see many cases of inadequate and ineffective supplier coverage.
Continue reading →Video: European Risk Frontiers – Mathias Pahl on the Evolving German Risk Landscape
Willis Germany CEO Mathias Pahl discusses the main risk frontiers facing European clients.
Continue reading →One Year Later, Thai Floods Still Teach us Supply-Chain Lessons
At an estimated US$ 15 billion of insurable losses, the 2011 Thai floods are likely to rank as one of the most costly natural catastrophes. Unlike other nat cat events, a significant portion of these insurance claims are related to losses suffered far from Thailand, by companies that outsourced their supply chains to this low-cost manufacturing centre.
Continue reading →The Top 5 Threats to the Energy Industry in 2012
Delegates at Willis’ second North American Energy Conference ranked the threats to the industry in order of importance to them. Here’s what they said.
Continue reading →What Tohoku Taught Us About Supply Chain Risk
The 2011 Tohoku disaster revealed prevalent misconceptions about supply chain exposures.
Continue reading →Emerging Supply Chain Risk of 2012
Supply chain interruption cannot be considered as an emerging risk anymore, but it is rapidly evolving in terms of its scope, the level of suppliers affected and what causes it.
Continue reading →Emerging Mining Risk of 2012
Contingent Business Interruption (CBI)/Supply Chain exposure is the greatest unknown in the insurable risk transfer business. It has been an insured extension to most Industrial Special Risks insurance contracts for decades, but the impact of globalization on this extension has only really been felt in the last few years.
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