Each episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” opens with warnings of graphic adult material, violence, sexual content and nudity. If these items are not sufficient encouragement to view the full eight seasons, the 73 episodes also offer lessons about risk.

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., citing rising worries about climate change, is limiting its insurance coverage of companies in the fossil fuel business.

Like the mountain climber who got stuck in the avalanche, reputational risk is often an area of risk management where trouble isn’t spotted until it’s already too late.

The US insurance industry posted M&A deals worth a total of $4.17 billion in the third quarter, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. That’s a 51.2% increase over Q2 and a 34.2% increase compared with the last four-quarter average of $3.11 billion.

For years, organizations have employed remote sensing technologies that obtain information about objects or areas from a distance—typically from aircraft or satellites—to assess impacts from natural disasters like hurricanes. But today, thanks to a convergence of factors, including a dramatic drop in remote sensing costs, greater availability of more detailed and abundant data, and advances in artificial intelligence, the technology is increasingly being used to mitigate property risks.

Victoria Robinson, head of marketing & communications at the Institute of Risk Management, discusses the importance for businesses to protect reputations as regulations and the social climate evolve.

Amazon hit their highest selling numbers ever during this year’s Cyber Monday sales. Between Thanksgiving and Monday, December 2, the company reached a mighty, yet vague, quota of “hundreds of millions” of packages.

Companies have increasingly turned to the cloud for their email solution. Cybercriminals or attackers have watched this trend and are finding ways to access email hosted in the cloud, which is known in the security community as a Business Email Compromise (BEC).

It doesn’t take long for comments that would be negatively received by the populace to go viral and that’s one of the newest challenges for risk managers and business leaders.

Risk management is integral to insurance, but it’s traditionally been an inexact science. Thanks to recent technological advances, however, risk management is about to get a long overdue upgrade.

At least 60 percent of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other worsening disasters of climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to directly acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says.

While businesses are often aware of external threats perpetrated by cybercriminals looking to make a quick buck or competitors that want to play dirty, many forget that internal threats also pose a great risk to the safety and security of the organization and its personnel.

It has been quite the turbulent ride for catastrophe insurance providers in the past few years. The US has suffered a series of devastating hurricanes, kicking off on August 25, 2017, when Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm.

The work of a Norwegian geography academic is finally bearing fruit. Richard Heede spent a decade trying to determine whether he could pin down to what degree individual companies contributed to climate change.

The engines, big and small, came from all over the country to fight the Kincade fire in the Sonoma county wine region of California. There were trucks from Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado — and from the wildfire protection unit of home insurer AIG.