Risk Worldwide is a consulting company employing highly skilled and trained individuals who have decades of experience successfully counseling corporate and sophisticated policyholders, brokers and their legal counsel on asset protection, disaster response and insurance recovery. Our Company is unique as our talent includes lawyers, MBAs, LLMs and CPAs, many of whom have worked for, or routinely done business with, the insurance industry. As risks continue to evolve, resulting in financial and legal ramifications to individual assets, corporations and their officers and directors, Risk International works to resolve the adverse effects created by unknown or unsupported risk.
We provide a broad menu of consulting services including pre-loss insurance review, risk assessment and transfer analysis, disaster response and insurance recovery, secure web-based archiving of critical documents and pre-loss recording of your assets (our GargoyleSM Program) and nonrecourse funding before receipt of insurance proceeds (our Distressed Asset Recovery Program "DARP ProgramSM "). Risk Worldwide's goal is to ensure that when disaster strikes or litigation ensues, our clients are prepared, their assets protected and our response immediate, so they can focus on the business of their business.
Insurance is a $90 Billion a year industry. We even the playing field by bringing our expertise to the table exclusively for the insured.
LATEST NEWS:
1.26.2010
2010 Annual Conference of the Council on Litigation Management (CLM). Katherine Smith Dedrick was selected to speak on the topic “Insurance Exposures and strategies for 2010.”
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1.13.2010
Community Associations Institute-Minnesota Chapter conference in Minneapolis, MN Katherine Smith Dedrick presentation cleverly compared the Minnesota Vikings and the game of football to pre and post loss critical paths for Property Managers. For more information on this presentation, please contact Katie at KWilson@Riskati.com
12.04.2009
NAPIA Mid-Year Meeting in Las Vegas, NV
Founder Katherine Smith Dedrick presented on, How to Get Paid Promptly-What Buttons to Push. During this presentation Katherine focused on how public adjusters can have an effect on “the beast” and how to make the beast sit up and take notice. The following ways and how to use them were presented: external issues, bond, internal issues, reinsurance, reserves, committee review and capital at risk. For more information about this presentation, please contact Katie at KWilson@Riskati.com
10.28.2009
Risk Seminar
Founding partners Katherine Smith Dedrick and Joel N. Goldblatt presented at the Risk Seminar which focused on The Changing Horizon: Critical Steps to Prevent Your Business From Becoming the Next Headline. The headlines today are filled with stories of companies whose lack of risk management and governance policies have led to disastrous results. Katherine presented on the following key points:
- Regulatory and market changes effecting corporate risk
- Establishing a risk profile and appetite (Critical Risk Pockets)
- Protecting your Bottom Line: whether and where to transfer risk
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08.11.2009
Founding members Katherine Smith Dedrick and Joel N. Goldblatt to speak at RIMS Chicago Conference October 22nd, 2009. 10:15 am - 11:15 am.
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08.05.2009
SEC Proposal: Risk Assessment Director's Responsibility
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Risk Worldwide hired to represent Patrick Cudahy, Inc.
A fire ignited at the Patrick Cudahy meat plant in Cudahy, Wisconsin over the Fourth of July weekend. The blaze burned for about three days and forced an evacuation of hundreds of surrounding residents. Initial damage estimates are more than $50 million. Risk International's disaster response team was immediately onsite working with the company, local authorities, and gathering the top contractors to respond to this disaster to ensure that the Cudahy plant can continue to run its business.
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By Katherine Smith Dedrick and Mark L. Frigo
Published June 16, 2008 Crain's Business Insurance
Risk assessment and risk transfer should be considered primary strategies for protecting corporate assets and shareholder value. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has increased the responsibilities of directors and officers, and it is not difficult to envision corporate management being placed in line for the liability of a company that failed to protect its assets by way of risk management and risk transfer . . . Read More