The U.S. Department of Labor has now launched an investigation and said it will hold not only companies that employ child labor accountable, but the larger, better known companies that have child labor in their supply chains. The new regulatory stakeholders in companies’ supply chains bring with them investors and litigators, who had material financial consequences to activities already being followed by activists.
ESG rhetoric pledge regrets. With ESG becoming as important to some companies as EBITDA and marketing departments ramping up the ESG rhetoric, the effective scope of dutiful oversight has expanded…The Delaware court increasingly sees oversight of all things mission-critical as a board duty.
Mission critical risk denial can be costly. A holiday flight cancellation fiasco by Southwest Airlines crushed the company’s market capitalization and caused the company to take an $800 million dollar write-down for Q4 and record losses three times greater than analysts had expected. Equity returns 42 days into the crisis show Southwest trailing the Dow Jones U.S. Airlines Index by 18.4%. Had it merely kept pace with that index, Southwest’s market cap would have been more than $3.3 billion higher.
Risk Strategy Authentication and Communication.If you oversee an effective reputation risk strategy process, but no one knows it, is it actually effective? This is a vital question boards of directors, senior executives, and risk professionals need to ask themselves in this era of enhanced regulatory enforcement. Building resilience requires a demonstrably effective, insurance-authenticated system.
Eli Lilly defused a tweet-induced reputational crisis. […] In the days since that event took place, Lilly’s stock underperformed the S&P and underperformed some of its pharmaceutical industry peers. Why the lingering effect on Lilly’s stock price? What could it have done differently? What could a company in its position do now? And how could have third party (insurance) authentication played a strategic role?
Parametric insurance ESG authentication. Parametric insurance, which has long been popular in disaster recovery, is gaining steam as a proxy for proving the effectiveness of ESG programs. Nir Kossovsky and Denise Williamee of insurer Steel City Re explore details of this novel ESG solution. Insurance-based authentication — a regulatory lynchpin — is a recent innovation made possible by parametric insurance solutions.
Well underwritten parametric reputation insurance. Parametric triggers for insurance can be anything quantifiable. In the case of my firm, Steel City Re, we use parametric measures of reputational value in our Tokio Marine Kiln policies. Parametric policies provide for ease of underwriting, facilitate claims adjustment, and enable coverage to insure complex risks including reputation and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors-linked reputation loss.
Insurance Captive and Risk Strategy Transparency. The insurance captive is the key to making the value of a risk strategy transparently measurable to all stakeholders. An effective, insurance-authenticated risk strategy can mitigate the ESG risk du jour.
Road to Reputation Resilience. In this era of stakeholder capitalism, corporate engagement on controversial social issues, wars, pandemics, and vague or aspirational environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals driving investor decisions, “reputation management” is incomplete without “reputation risk management” and, increasingly, legal compliance. Marketers cannot do it alone. Click on the image above to read …
Captive Insurance Can Be a Value Center Captives enable risk professionals to play a tangible and demonstrable role in enhancing corporate profitability. It also allows them to control management and decision-making with respect to claims – a key function that is often overlooked […] Perhaps most importantly, it provides captive managers witha simple, clear, and …