Public Risk Management

Insurance Requirements In Contracts - Tips For Effectively Transferring Risks James Curbeam, Director of Risk Management at Las Vegas Valley Water District, and CourtneyRamirez, First Vice President of Property & Casualty at Alliant Insurance Services, share tips for effectively transferring risk for Insurance Requirements in Contracts. They start by addressing the longstanding question of How much insurance is enough? The benefits to standardizing policies and procedures, and how to further streamline language and reviewing requirements. They discuss how the changes from the overall market, and increased litigation costs have impacted coverage requirements and limits, emerging trends - such as cybersecurity, how to manage Cyber Risk in contracts and ISO changes that have affected coverage application.

In this episode, Joaquina Scott Kankam, Director and Senior Consultant at School of Solutions, addresses what Risk Management Professionals misunderstand about Youth Protection and the subsequent issues that occur because of it. The biggest challenge is that the requirements of the current federal law are not fully comprehensive, and leads to insufficient procedures and policies. Her experience as an educator and specialization on creating youth programs provided first hand experiences of negligence and the need for better protection for youth in organizations. She also shares the importance for better awareness, enhancing state laws and growing data collection.

Steven Clark, is WorkStrategies’ National Director at Select Medical. He explains Injury Prevention Programs and Early Symptom Intervention. He discusses the primary drivers and strategies that employers should be looking at in order to prevent or reduce incidents in the workplace: Functional Employment Testing, Educational Programs, Ergonomics, and Early Symptom Intervention. He provides data of the greatest injury types, their costs, and how to decrease them. He also shares the highest risk factors: repetitive motion, forceful exertions, environmental, the combination of factors, personal, and pre-existing conditions. He explains how to identify the factors, break them down in order to associate them with tasks, then leading to a solution.

The Neuroscience Of Mentor - Mentee Relationships Brent Holman, the workers’ compensation insurance program coordinator for the University of Texas System, discusses the Neuroscience of Mentor/Mentee Relationships. The benefits of mentorship date back to ancient history, such as passing on the knowledge of how to create fire. Brent Holman explains the art of mentoring from personal experience as a mentee and mentor. He provides insights into the biggest challenges, risks of mentoring but emphasizes the value of this relationship out weighing the risk as studies show supporting others reduces stress levels, increases a sense of autonomy, social connection and happiness. He shares modern day situations and the brain’s process when experiencing the collaborative and social factors from mentorship along with the many skills and tips he’s learned from being a mentee and mentor.

How To Educate Employees On Workers Compensation Without Giving The Store Away

Confidence, Culture And Conversations - Inspired Risk Leadership This week we’re joined by Melanie Herman; a prolific author, whos has written more than a dozen comprehensive books and resource guides and delivered countless seminars and key note presentations. She explains why risk leadership is important with providing guidance through uncertainty, and being able to charter the multi-finality of problem resolutions. She also discusses common misconceptions about risk management’s role, how the pandemic has changed companies’ perceptions and implementation of risk management positions as well as the five attributes necessary for a great risk management leader.

Cybersecurity First with Sarah Creighton

Emerging Trends In Cyber Risk Management - Ransomware

Avoiding The Wheel Of Misfortune: Using Advanced Analytics To Achieve Better Claim Outcomes

How Risk Managers Can Shape A Connected Future

Best Practices to Avoid a Cyber Attack

Securing Devices at Home and Work

Cyber Awareness Month 2020 Episode 1 - If You Connect It, Protect It

The Future of Connected Devices

Securing Internet - Connected Devices in Healthcare

Ann O’Leary, Assistant Vice President of Cyber Insurance at Aon, discusses the Cyber Risks that Public Entities face, the types of Cyber Insurance that is available in the marketplace and how Sovereign Immunity changes what coverage Public Entities have. The greatest risks for Public Entities are the amount of data, type of data: personally identifiable information, health records, the length of time records have to be maintained, activism and reliance on third party vendors. The risks lead to several challenges of purchasing cyber insurance. Public Entities’ length of record retention increases, limited resources for IT and lack of allocation of funds especially as technology continues to evolve requires heavier reliance on third parties. Additionally, activism is unique to Public Entities, as well as their application process can be quite cumbersome. Ann also shares the three aspects carriers are looking for; specifically with Public Entities: Control The amount of data and the type of information.

Fight The Phish with Jennifer Cook

Cyber Security Month week one with Souwei Ford.

Chris Mandel, President and Managing Consultant of Excellence in Risk Management LLC, explains Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)  in Risk Management.  Chris defines ESG and how it’s grown from sustainable development and now evolved to initiatives driving corporations and spheres of societies’ behaviors. Additionally, he discusses why ESG matters for risk professionals, why it’s invaluable they are included in the conversation and how it’s a component in practicing a comprehensive risk strategy.  Chris also shares the four reasons ESG is related or should be related to Enterprise Risk Management. He sees the future of ESG heading into the public sector and becoming a priority for all companies it’s only a question of timing.

Richard Spiers is a claims consultant who’s developed and presented training programs for a variety of industry clients for 25 years. In this episode he shares the main factors in what type of media captures the greatest attention, specifically in cases around police shootings. Race, demographics of the community, how many shots fired, the timeliness in releasing video footage as well as prior records all have an important role with influencing community and public opinion of the defendant and plaintiff. Richard also shares many stories through his years of experience illustrating the severity of the media's influence on a case and the lawsuits’ outcome.