ACE in the News

Health Care Industry’s Rising Tide of Risk
Directors & Boards, Second Quarter 2013
ACE Professional Risk and law firm Bass, Berry & Sims discuss the unprecedented scrutiny and exposure faced by those in the health care industry, and how a proactive risk management strategy — including a properly structured management liability insurance program — can help health care providers meet these challenges.

10 Steps to an Effective Catastrophe Response
Property Casualty 360, May 22, 2013
Carol Laufer, Executive Vice President, ACE Excess Casualty, and Lori Brassell-Cicchini, Vice President, ESIS Catastrophe Services, comment on how a company responds to disaster and how the public perceives that response, and the impact on its business.

ACE Maximizes the Potential of International Travel Products
Insurance Networking News, May 16, 2013
ACE Commercial Risk Services’ Tim Benson, Senior Vice President, and Joe Vanderhoff, Vice President, comment on how the new web-based platform offering international travel package insurance can help U.S. businesses, schools and church groups traveling outside the country

Weathering the Weather
CFO Magazine, May 8, 2013
ACE’s Paul McNamee, Division President, North American Property & Specialty Lines, comments on the impact recent major catastrophes have had on the insurance industry, including precautionary changes in risk management practices related to supply chain management.

ZPIC Audits: Another Government Weapon
Directors & Boards, First Quarter 2013
ACE’s Carol Zacharias joins forces with Bass Berry & Sims PLC’s John Kelly and Anna Grizzle to discuss the heightened exposure healthcare Board members face in the ongoing war waged against abuse and fraud.

Choice Matters with Data Breach Claims Service
Advisen, February 13, 2013
ACE’s Norm Rafsol and Michael Tanenbaum review the importance of an insurer’s expertise and claims practices for insureds in the aftermath of a data breach.

Prosecuting Individuals Under the FCPA
Directors & Boards, Fourth Quarter 2012
In her quarterly guest column, Carol Zacharias, ACE Group North America Deputy General Counsel, discusses prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

ACE’s Use of Technology to Serve its Clients Pays Off
Business Insurance, November 25, 2012
ACE garnered eight Business Insurance Buyer's Choice awards for 2012, including commercial liability insurer expertise for medium buyers; commercial liability insurer service for large buyers; commercial auto insurer for service, expertise and overall large buyers; and workers compensation provider for service, expertise and overall for large buyers.

Security Issues and Large Deductible Workers Compensation Policies
CPCU Society Regulatory & Legislative Interest Group, November 2012
ACE’s Ilana Hessing  discusses security issues and large deductible workers compensation policies in this bylined article.

Good Names on the Line - Can New and Developing Reputational Risk Products Keep Pace with Insureds’ Growing Need for Coverage?
National Underwriter, October 29, 2012
ACE’s Carol Laufer comments on reputational risk coverage.

Food Recalls Underscore the Liabilities Presented by Complex Supply Chains
Business Insurance, October 21, 2012
ACE’s Florian Beerli comments on product recalls and the liabilities presented by complex supply chains.

Construction Contractors Working Unfamiliar Projects Face New Challenges
Business Insurance, October 17, 2012
ACE’s Bruce Jervis comments on mid-market contractors and some of the insurance, risk management and contract terms and conditions issues they face, as residential contractors seek new work.

Playing Insurance Detective
Risk & Insurance, October 11, 2012
Al Marrazzo from ESIS comments on using social media efforts in fraud investigations.

Overseas Travel Risks Becoming More Relevant to Mid-market Employers
Business Insurance, October 7, 2012
ACE’s James Walloga and Bryan Tedford comment on international business travel risks among midsize employers.

Liability Threats to Boards Today
Directors & Boards, Third Quarter 2012
In her quarterly guest column, Carol Zacharias, ACE Group North America Deputy General Counsel, highlights six key areas of D&O liability today.

Alarmed by Violence
Risk & Insurance, October 1, 2012
In a world that is supposed to provide a sanctuary, health-care workers find themselves victims of bullying and violence by patients, staff and even visitors. ACE Medical Risk’s Diane Doherty comments.

ACE USA, GMG Underwriters to Offer Enhanced K&R Coverage
Insurance Journal, September 26, 2012
ACE USA has collaborated with GMG Underwriters, LLC, a specialist in kidnap & ransom coverages and services, to expand the growth of its underwriting platform. The stand-alone kidnap & extortion coverage offering is available for U.S.-based companies of all sizes with international operations, as well as those that have employees who travel overseas.

Business Travel Coverage Expands into Global Space
National Underwriter, September 17-24, 2012
As economies grow ever more connected across international borders, business travel has increasingly become a global endeavor for companies of all sizes. ACE’s Suresh Krishnan, James Walloga and Frank D'Ancona contribute to this article.

ACE-ING the Cyber Liability Market: As Technology Transforms the Business World, ACE Delivers Robust Coverage and Risk Management
Rough Notes, September 2012
ACE’s Mike Tanenbaum, Toby Merrill, Christopher Christ and Ken Latham discuss risk management issues related to cyber liability exposures.

When Risk Gets Personal: Protecting Your Directors & Officers Across Borders
National Underwriter, September 10, 2012
In this bylined article, ACE’s Suresh Krishnan discusses the challenges for multinational companies in understanding personal exposures of directors and officers.

Commercial Umbrella: Rates Up, but Plentiful Capacity Means Buyers Aren’t Getting Soaked
National Underwriter, August 6-13, 2012
ACE Excess Casualty’s Carol Laufer comments on identifying opportunity in coverage gaps.

Managing Industrial Accidents in Emerging Economies
Asia Insurance Review, August 2012
That “one in one thousand years” event has to be taken very seriously. Carol Laufer of ACE Excess Casualty, Stephen Craig, Paul Esposito and Tim Frazer, all from ESIS Health, Safety and Environmental, spell out the checklist for companies to look out for in preventing, and in the worst case, managing such catastrophes.

Protecting High-Value Assets
Risk & Insurance, July 24, 2012
Refinery expansions and owner transactions are increasing the risk management and insurance challenges affecting the evolving oil and gas industry. Keith Mattheessen of ACE Risk Management comments.

Privacy Insurance: Avoiding the HMO Experience
Advisen Cyber Liability Journal, June 2012
This article, authored by Toby Merrill, VP of Professional Risk, ACE USA, takes an in-depth look at privacy insurance.

SEC Guidelines Drive Renewed Interest in Cyber Risk Insurance Coverage
Business Insurance, June 8, 2012
During the 2012 NetDiligence Cyber Risk and Privacy Liability Forum in Philadelphia, Toby Merrill, VP of Professional Risk, ACE USA comments on a renewed interest in cyber risk insurance coverage.

In the Cross Hairs
Directors & Boards, Second Quarter 2012
In her quarterly guest column, Carol Zacharias, ACE Group North America Deputy General Counsel, discusses why today’s executives are more at risk of personal liability than ever before, confronted by increasingly new forms of actions and new types of damages.

ACE’s Zacharias Aims GPS Radar At Multinational Ds & Os - Navigating new governance rules, indemnification issues, FOS and Side E
Advisen Management Liability Journal, April 2012
While it is not surprising for a global insurance carrier repre¬sentative to be focusing her attention on worldwide liability trends, for ACE’s Carol Zacharias, finding U.S. companies fully engaged in discussions about these trends is unfamiliar territory.

ACE Report: Imagination is the Key to Proactive Catastrophe Management
National Underwriter, April 16, 2012
Part of the ACE Progress Reports collection, the white paper addresses a range of catastrophic events and details how risk managers can protect their investments both by demonstrating a culture of compliance with existing regulations and by proactively shaping their insurance programs.

Responsible Parenting, Global Scale International Risk Column
Leader’s Edge, March 2012
Brokers must help clients understand when a parent company has an insurable interest in an international affiliate. ACE and KPMG released a white paper titled “Structuring Multinational Insurance Programs: Addressing the Taxation and Transfer Pricing Challenge,” which outlines key issues when designing a master insurance program.

Does D&O do Justice Abroad?
Directors & Boards, First Quarter 2012
In her quarterly guest column, Carol Zacharias, ACE Group North America Deputy General Counsel, discusses the importance of properly compliant global D&O programs.

Are you Asking the Right Questions?
Captive Review, Global Programmes Report 2012
When any insurance programme involves cross-border risks, there are a myriad of compliance requirements to be considered. Suresh Krishnan, of ACE Group, recently gave a talk on the questions you should consider when purchasing and selling a multinational insurance programme.

Factory Closure Can Create New Risks for Plant Owners - Vandalism, Theft Become Big Problems for Property Owners
Business Insurance, February 5, 2012
Frank Westfall, VP, ESIS Health, Safety and Environmental is quoted.

Where the Money Is, and the Security Isn’t
CFO Magazine, February 1, 2012
Toby Merrill, ACE Professional Risk, discusses cyber insurance.

ACE Promotes New Orleans-Based Execs in Aerospace Insurance Units
Insurance Journal, January 18, 2012