At the 2018 National Council of Self Insurer’s Annual Meeting, Max Koonce from Sedgwick talked about issues facing self-insured employers now and into the future. The very definition of employee and injury are changing. A recent Supreme Court case in California dramatically shifted the definition of who is an employee (vs independent contractor). The courts are also increasingly allowing claims where the actual “injury” was an aggravation of preexisting conditions. These two fundamental shifts are having a significant impact on workers’ compensation. Issues Discussed: Reacting to catastrophes: Every employer should have a disaster recovery plan on how they will keep
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At the 2018 National Council of Self-Insurers Annual Meeting, Ivan Diaz from Walt Disney Company talked about their safety efforts. Safety has always been a core part of Disney’s culture at their theme parks. If you look back at the letters that Walt Disney himself sent to new employees at Disneyland back in the 1950s, it included a mention of the importance of safety. The Safety Charter at Disney is that “no one gets hurt”. Your safety program needs to focus on more than just compliance with regulations. While it is very important to comply with safety regulations, your safety
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This session at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference featured the following speakers: Richard A. Spiers, CPCU, ARM, ARe Attorney Samuel C. Hall, Jr. Federal and state laws, with input from the ACLU,  are evolving regarding the information collected and stored by cameras. When the cameras should be turned on is another media topic. In addition, issues are arising regarding how body cameras can support workers’ compensation claims made by officers. Improvements in technology have been surging upward and body cameras will soon have the ability to automatically activate and include real-time facial recognition technology. Automatic Activation was implemented to avoid concern
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This session at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference featured the following speakers: Michael P. It worth – VP & Sr. Unit Manager – Genesis Benjamin C. Eggert – Partner – Wiley Rein LLP In the last decade, wrongful imprisonment suits have proliferated in number and costs to local governments. In responding to such suits, municipalities must juggle conflicting pressures, including correcting miscarriages of justice, addressing public outrage and grasping a cross-section of emerging law regarding immunity, civil rights and insurance in order to limit the public entity’s/official’s legal exposure. In this session at the 2018 PRIMA Annual conference, wrongful imprisonment lawsuits
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This session at the 2018 PRIMA Annual Conference, Mark Sulek – Associate Director, Public Sector – Aon, presented some “do’s and don’ts” as well as helpful hints. The RFP process has a reputation for being tedious, strenuous and frustrating. With a well defined plan, an RFP process, from conception to award, can be seamless while maximizing the responses you receive. The objectives of developing a successful RFP process are proactively limiting Q&A, increase the quality of submissions, and create more objective evaluation. Begin with preemptive discussions with procurement/purchasing and follow some of these guidelines. Top 10 Do’s & Don’ts: Requirements.
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This session at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference featured the following speakers: Paul Marshall – Managing Director – McGowan Active Shooter Programs Dianne Howard – Director of Risk Management – Palm Beach County School District James Kelly – Retired Police Chief – Executive VP – Life Safety Solutions James Kelly opened the session by defining the incidents and the perspective from a crisis management perspective. Each year, nearly 2 million American workers are victims of workplace violence. According to OSHA, workplace violence is the second leading cause of work-site deaths in the US. We need to make ourselves less attractive to
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This session at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference featured the following speakers: Carleen C. Patterson, ARM-P, CIC, CRM – Managing Director – Public Sector – Aon Sheri Swain – Director of Enterprise Risk Management – Maricopa County Community College District Carleen and Sheri walked through a detailed explanation of Total Cost of Risk (TCOR), it’s importance, and how to optimize your programs through this method during this session at the 2018 PRIMA Annual Conference. Focusing on reducing total cost of risk (TCOR) is fundamental to supporting your organization’s operational and growth strategies. While overspending to protect against risk makes little business
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At the 2018 PRIMA Annual Conference, Kimberly George, SVP with Sedgwick, discussed the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD rarely stands on it’s own as a diagnosis. It is part of a larger issue around mental health. About one in five Americans will experience a significant mental health event this year. One in twenty-five people live with a significant mental health condition. There is over $193 billion in lost workforce productivity each year due to mental illness. Mental health is one of the top three reasons for disability across all spectrums and it is the top driver of
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This live edition of “Out Front Ideas” at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference featured a panel of public entity risk managers discussing their biggest workers’ compensation challenges and how they are overcoming them. Panelists included: Mark Walls – VP of Communications and Strategic Analysis – Safety National Kimberly George – Senior VP of Corporate Development, M&A and Healthcare – Sedgwick Sarah Perry – Risk Manager – City of Columbia, MO Betty Coulter – Director of Risk Management and Insurance – University of North Carolina Chris Hills – Risk Manager – City of Kent, WA Mark Barta – Assistant Director of Risk
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In this brief session at PRIMA’s 2018 Annual Conference, Jose Peralta, ARM – Director of Public Sector Practice – Aon, highlighted the involvement of smart cities and the need of risk management to be consistently and intimately involved in the research, development, and execution of technology advancement initiatives. As urbanization in the U.S. and globally continues to grow, the strain of resources grows as well. Smart City technology describes the efficiency in identifying and delivering services and resources to communities through technology advancements. Common urban issues such as traffic congestion are being improved with advancements such as electronic car share vehicles, smart parking
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