FM in the News

Sr. vp and manager of engineering and research, Brion Callori, discusses how FM Global's equipment predisposed tool, a 2021 Innovation Award winner, helps risk managers prevent and reduce large property losses.

FM Global insured properties protected by a well maintained and adequately designed levee to contain a 500-year flood are rated as a reduced-hazard flood risk, says the insurer’s vp of natural hazards and structures.

Concerns over increasing climate risks continue to top corporate board agendas. Mike Hunneyball, sr, account engineer at FM Global, provides insight into how climate risk is changing and what cost-effective engineering solutions can better safeguard organizations.

Climate-related events are driving changes in commercial property insurance policies. Amy Brown, staff vp and manager of natural hazard underwriting, shares mitigation advice for climate risk and discusses how FM Global's policy is tailored to clients’ risk profiles.

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.