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ACE: U.S. Treasury Investment in Insurers Not Needed and Harmful to Industry
In a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, ACE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg explains why the insurance industry does not need and should not participate in a taxpayer-funded financial rescue program. Read the letter.

P&C Companies Do Not Seek Financial Assistance
The U.S. Treasury Department is now deliberating on whether to include insurance companies in the $700 billion emergency economic stabilization package approved by Congress. In response, ACE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg has issued a statement on behalf of the American Insurance Association. Read his comments.

Podcasts

New Podcast from ACE Examines Emerging Issues Impacting Global Environmental Programs 11/18/2008
William P. Hazelton, Senior Vice President, ACE Environmental Risk, ACE USA and Karl J. Russek, Senior Vice President, Environmental Risk, ACE International, discuss their co-authored report, “Going Global: Emerging International Issues for Environmental Programs,” that appears in the November 2008 issue of John Liner Review. Covered: The types of environmental insurance products that address pollution risks, legislative and compliance developments around the world, the challenges of placing environmental coverage outside the United States and risk management solutions available in the marketplace.  Listen to podcast.

Defense Base Act (DBA) Workers Compensation Arena 12/6/2007
The podcast, featuring an insightful discussion by William House, Senior Vice President of ACE Foreign Casualty, part of ACE Global Underwriting Group, focuses on the risk management considerations that contractors and risk managers face in connection with managing contractor risk in war zones and overseas hot spots and steps employers can take to mitigate these risks.  Listen to this brief program.

Best Practices for Designing a Global Claims Management Program 11/30/2007
The podcast, featuring Steven Lulewicz, Assistant Vice President of ESIS® Global Claims Operations, explores the growing market need for organizations operating in the global arena and the multiple challenges and considerations facing today's companies when choosing the right partner to provide comprehensive claim management services. Listen to this brief program.

Cyber Liability Risk Management Podcast and Report
Listen to Brad Gow, Vice President of ACE USA Professional Risk, discuss cyber liability risk management issues. Download his report, "Cyber Risk: Insuring the Escalating Threats from New Technology Exposures," from The John Liner Review.

ACE Podcast Offers Insight on Designing a Global Claims Management Program
There’s a growing need for global organizations to select the right partner to provide comprehensive claims management services.  Learn more in this podcast from ESIS, a risk management services company of ACE USA.

ACE USA Offers Dual Perspectives on the Utilization of Alternative Risk Versus Traditional Risk Financing Options 6/6/07The podcast features a discussion by Carol Frey, Vice President, Business Development and Client Retention, ACE Risk Management and Ken Riegler, Executive Vice President, ACE Risk Management that explores the multiple challenges and considerations facing today's buyers when managing their own risks. Selecting an insurer to issue policies that will in turn be reinsured by a captive, or fronting company, should be carefully considered, and should transcend far beyond the simplistic approach in terms of price and collateral. Listen to this podcast.

Managing Kidnapping, Extortion and Other Global Security Risks 2/27/07
Jean McDermott-Lucey, Vice President, ACE USA Professional Risk, discusses her white paper recently published in The John Liner Review: “Managing Kidnapping, Extortion, and Other Global Security Risks,” and provides corporate risk managers with an informative overview of the rise in kidnapping extortion incidents and the resulting costly consequences to private sector and non-profit organizations. Listen to this podcast

Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation and Directors and Officers Liability Insurance 1/8/2007
Carol Zacharias, Senior Vice President and Counsel, ACE Professional Risk, discusses her white paper, recently published in The John Liner Review: “Trends in Securities Class Action Litigation and Directors and Officers Liability Insurance,” and provides corporate risk managers with an informative overview of the trend toward unprecedented securities litigation settlements, the factors driving it, and the potential consequences to companies thus affected. Listen to this podcast

ACE Sponsors EIU Global Risk Briefing


ACE co-sponsors the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Risk Briefing Project, which measures the perception of risk among chief risk officers (CROs) around the world. We invite you to download the reports, which include:

Under the Spotlight - The Transition of Environmental Risk Management (June 2008)
Best Practice in Risk Management  (May 2007)
Business Resilience  (February 2007)
Operating Risk in Emerging Markets (January 2007)
Catastrophe Risk Report - Preparing for Potential Storms Ahead  (September 2006)

ACE at the International Insurance Society Seminar
Read the text of ACE Limited President & CEO Evan Greenberg's remarks on the global trade and regulatory environment, and catastrophe risk capacity and funding.

Evan Greenberg Writes on American Trade with China
"Are free trade and globalization bad for America?  Think again."
Read an opinion piece on trade between the United States and China, written by Evan Greenberg, ACE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and published in the May/June 2007 issue of ChinaTrade Magazine.<">New Survey on Human Capital Risk Sponsored by ACE Released by the Economist Intelligence Unit
Survey results show a change in attitude among international risk managers, with human capital risk judged more significant than threats from reputational, political, regulatory and IT-related risks.  Read the survey results.