English Appendix
Gerencia de Riesgos y Seguros has now clocked up 24 years of existence
Twenty four long years ago, back in 1983, an earthquake in Turkey killed 1.330 people while the nearer tragedy of the fire at calle Alcalá 20 in Madrid took a toll of 81 victims. From that time to this there have been many changes in the world of risk management, some of which have been witnessed and attested by the review you are now holding in your hands.
The truth is that the prestige of a review like this one is built up over time as the project grows.With almost a quarter of a century behind us we have never flagged in our desire to bring groundbreaking ideas and concepts to a wider audience, taking a continual pride and satisfaction in our work and developing a consolidated way of working that we intend to pursue and even improve in the future. For all our past achievements, however,we can never afford to rest on our laurels, and have therefore decided to update and overhaul our format and contents.
But it is you, dear reader, who must in the end judge the changes and innovations of this first issue of the review’s new era.We trust it will meet with your approval.
The habitual readers of our review know that Gerencia de Riesgos y Seguros usually includes studies and documents to illustrate the theme. In this issue we have three interesting articles dealing with subjects of the utmost relevance today.The first gives a new vision of the prevention of interdependent risks and the consequences of transferring them to the insurance market.
The next article gives an overview of Contract Certainty, a concept developed in the English market that seeks to clarify the terms and conditions of an insurance contract before inception.
The third article is based on a paper presented in a meeting promoted by the Geneva Association and held last autumn in Madrid. It deals with something that is undoubtedly with us today: the climate change.
I dearly hope, as I said at the beginning of these lines, that we meet with the approval of our readership.
Heartfelt thanks to one and all.