Insurance and Risk Management

The mission of the Office of Risk Management at Brandeis is to prevent loss of life and personal injury, protect and secure University assets, and to keep to a prudent minimum the cost of managing risk by analyzing the different types and sizes of loss exposures, deciding how to handle and finance these exposures through a combination of insurance, self-insured retentions, risk avoidance, risk transfers and effective claims management of the losses that do occur.

We recognize that the university, by its very nature, is a constantly changing, dynamic entity. Our aim is to protect the university, not by avoiding the various actions that make the university function as a university, but rather by bringing about a realization that there can be rational planning incorporated within every function to minimize the loss exposures.