Craig Hooper: Mitigating event risk

Whether it is a large fun-run marathon or an international football game, event managers have a huge task when making certain the event runs smoothly and without incident. Event planners have a myriad of things to manage, from participants to finances, insurances to clearances, security and publicity (and many other things). They are appointed as the experts that make an event work well. At the same time, underwriters have an expectation that their risk will be mitigated by systems a...