FM in the News

While it’s not possible to explicitly say that climate change was the cause of recent damaging floods in Belgium, Germany and China, it’s likely that a changing climate is affecting the probability of these events occurring, says FM Global's Paolo Larentis.

Often business leaders struggle to envisage risk unless they have experienced an incident first-hand. The FM Global Research Campus is just one way of countering this thinking.

For the past several years, industry-wide insured losses have shown a wide variance between reported insurance values and the values measured at the time of loss. FM Global's Jeff Beauman discusses this alarming trend and why accurate insurance values are needed.

Lou Gritzo, FM Global's vp and manager of research, shares his perspective on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and how to reach widespread resilience against climate risks.

Australia’s airports are increasingly diversifying their property holdings in a bid to confront falling revenues. FM Global senior account engineer Terence Lee discusses the need for airports to closely consider the new risks to their operating environments and how to manage them.

As cyber hackers increasingly concentrate on operating technology, FM Global cyber expert Wade Chmielinski explains once hackers are into your system, they go for the back-ups first before shutting down operations and asking for big bucks to return to normal.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has just been released and FM Global's Lou Gritzo says it likely is going to be a point of departure for companies to start looking at their businesses in a very different way.

Andrea Garske, vice president, operations claims manager at commercial property insurer FM Global, has been recognized as one of the foremost female leaders in Australia’s insurance industry by being named to the 2021 Elite Women in Insurance list.

FM Global has named Tan Hian Hong to the role of vice president, division underwriting manager, Asia operations, based in Singapore, while Hamish Ravindran moves up to take on the role of vice president, client service manager, Asia operations.

Risk managers are changing how they prioritize risk improvements and budgeting for those improvements, according to Amy Brown, staff vice president, manager for natural hazard underwriting, at FM Global.