Insurance: Further Information

Newrisk Limited is available to assist organisations, governments and industry bodies with advice on risk and insurance issues, including extreme and catastrophic risks.

Newrisk Limited and its principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, have previously provided lectures, conference papers, workshops and publications on insurance related issues, examples of which are set out below. To return to an overview of Newrisk Limited's insurance expertise, please click here.

To request assistance in respect of insurance issues facing your organisation or government or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.

Media Commentary:

Newrisk has also provided the following media commentary on insurance related issues including:

• G8 Leader Options to Reduce World Terrorism, Conflict Resolution with Syria & Agreement not to pay Kidnap & Ransom Demands for BBC World NewsDay on 18 June 2013.

Lectures & Conferences

Newrisk Limited and its principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, have provided lectures & conferences on insurance related issues, including:

• 'London in 2012: Terrorism, Catastrophic Incidents and Helpful Hints' - Presentation to the High Premium Group Annual Conference in London (England) in April 2012;
  
  
• 'Catastrophic Risk Briefing' - Presentation to the High Premium Group Annual Conference in London (England) in April 2011;
  
  
• 'Corporate Governance and Information Risk' - Paper to the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers Conference in Manchester (England) in June 2003;
  
  
• 'How should a Responsible Company Director Act' - Interactive Forum at the 3rd Annual Symposium held by the Information Assurance Advisory Council in London (England) in October 2002;
  
  
• 'Winning the War by Testing Criticality' - Paper to the Australian Insurance Institute: The Insurance Battlefield - Are we Winning or Losing? in Noosa (Australia) in September 1998; and
  
  
• 'Surviving Terrorism: Controlling Human Factor Risks' - Paper to the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers Conference in Nottingham (England) in March 1996

Workshops

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has provided workshops on insurance related issues, including:

• 'Exercise: Quick Think' - Exercise to the Institute of Risk Management Conference at Cambridge (England) in 1998: This role-play exercise divided participants into two teams, representing a merchant bank and an insurer, each of which was required to create a disaster planning strategy which was then tested in response to an major incident affecting the merchant bank directly and the insurance company as insurer of the merchant bank.
  
  
• 'Exercising the Boardroom in Business Recovery' - Exercise at the Risk is a Profit Source Conference at the 22nd National Conference of the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers of Australasia Limited in Melbourne (Australia) in November 1998.
  
  
• 'Exercise: Quick Think: Strategy for Survival' - Exercise to the Society of Fellows, Chartered Insurance Institute in Cambridge (England) in May 1997.

Publications

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has written publications on insurance related issues, including:

• 'Risk Aversion and Terrorism: A Discussion Paper' (in response to a published analysis of aversion and high risk perception on the insurance market) - in Alert (Journal of the Institute of Civil Defence and Disaster Studies), April 2003, p.7;
• 'Risk: Installing the Chaos Theory' - in The Journal of the Chartered Insurance Institute, February 1997, pp.23-25; and
• 'Global Business Continuity: Risk and Profit' - in Corporate Risk, Vol. 5, No. 12, December 1998, pp.18-23.

To request assistance in respect of insurance issues facing your organisation or government or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.