This innovative RIMS 2015 session explored a new era of technology emerging in heathcare – personalized medicine. It is expected to revolutionize healthcare and, thus, will become very useful in the workers’ compensation arena. Speakers included: Geralyn Datz, President, Southern Behavioral Medicine Associates PLLC Sonny Roshan, CEO, Chairman, Aeon Laboratories, LLC Kimberly George, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, M&A, Healthcare, Sedgwick How it Works Using a simple, in-office test, genetic testing determines how a patient’s genetic makeup will determine a successful or unsuccessful response to a prescribed medication. Pharmacogenetic testing (PGX) taps into DNA to uncover how a single prescribed
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This RIMS 2015 panel, consisting of risk managers that represent some of the largest supermarket chains in the United States, addressed the latest and largest risk management issues facing the supermarket industry. Speakers included: Max Koonce, VP, Risk Management, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Lizabeth Christman, Vice President, Risk Management, Ahold USA, Inc. Dorina Hertner, Director, Corp. Insurance & Risk Management, 7-Eleven, Inc. William Zachry, Vice President Risk Management, Safeway Inc. Mark Walls, Vice President Communications & Strategic Analysis, Safety National (moderator) CRISIS MANAGEMENT Most of you are dealing with the unrest in Baltimore. How do you deal with crisis communications and
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This RIMS 2015 panel gathered senior executives from insurance carriers to discuss what they believe are the emerging issues in the insurance marketplace. Speakers Included: Daniel Riordan, Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Global Corporate, North America John Doyle, Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Insurance, AIG John Lupica, Chairman – Insurance, North America, ACE Group Thomas Lawson, President, FM Global Roger Andrews, Director, Risk Management, E.D. Bullard Company Do you agree with the opinion of the broker executive panel that the cyclical nature of the market might be a thing of the past? I don’t view the P&C market as just one market
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This RIMS 2015 panel gathered senior industry executives from brokerage firms to discuss what they believe are the real game changers in the insurance marketplace. Speakers Included: David Batchelor, President, International Division, Marsh LLC Steve McGill, Group President, Aon PLC J. Patrick Gallagher, Chairman, President & CEO, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Dominic Casserley, Chief Executive Officer, Willis Group Roger Andrews, Director, Risk Management, E.D. Bullard Company What keeps you up at night? The technology revolution. How do we capitalize on this speed and richness of data in our own businesses? Making sure that our client services remain at the
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This RIMS 2015 session examined the best path to compliant, integrated leave management programs. Speakers included Terri Rhodes, Executive Director at Disability Management Employers’ Coalition (DMEC) and Karen English, Partner at Spring Consulting Group, LLC.   The environment for leave management has become increasingly complex. Regulations, including the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), and employee awareness of their rights leave you trying to not only integrate new rulings into disability and workers’ compensation programs, but also make sure corporate policy and day-to-day interpretations match.    The presenters offered the following best practices to
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In this RIMS 2015 session, Bo Mitchell, President at 911 Consulting addressed how to define and identify workplace violence and how to prepare for it if it occurs. Daily workplace violence (WPV) is occurring every day. In fact, the U.S. Department of Justice reports 2 million instances every year at U.S. employers, which is a likely underreported number. This does not only include active shooter, but rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults – both verbal and physical, sabotage and workplace bullying. It also includes intimate partner violence and stalking from the significant other of an employee.   Separate the Facts from
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Next week Confernce Chronicles will be joining the risk management community at RIMS 2015 in New Orleans.  We will be blogging from a variety of sessions during the event so watch this space for updates.   For more information on the RIMS conference see the link below: https://www.rims.org/RIMS15/Pages/default.aspx

This week Conference Chronicles is attending and Tweeting from the Kids’ Chance of America 2015 Annual Meeting in Takoma, WA. Kids’ Chance of America (KCOA), a non-profit charity providing scholarship support to children of seriously or fatally injured workers, announced its new partner,  Since 1988, Kids’ Chance has provided scholarships to children where a parent has been seriously injured or killed in a work related accident. Today, there are twenty-nine state organizations across the United States who have awarded more than 3000 scholarships totaling over $8,900,000.  History Robert Clyatt, a workers’ compensation attorney from Valdosta, Georgia, founded the first Kids’
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At the 2015 Philly I-Day, a panel presented an engaging session designed to educate underwriters, brokers, claims adjusters and risk managers about the risks and challenges of cyber attacks. The panel consisted of: David Shannon, Esq., Co-Chair, Privacy & Data Security Practice Group, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin Mark Greisiger, President, NetDiligence Matthew Prevost, RPLU, Vice President, Professional Risk, ACE USA Moderator: John Dempsey, CPA, CFE, Managing Director, Aon Global Risk Consulting Your data is everywhere. It can be accessed through servers, multiple databases, physical transport, remote users, laptops, backup storage facilities, service providers, vendors, off-shore operations and credit card processors.
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At the 2015 Philly I-Day, Phillip Ellis, Chief Executive Officer, Global Solutions Consulting at Willis Group and James Coyle from Willis Group presented on how to convince your CFO or Treasurer that your insurance program is good value. The answer? Analytics.   The session began with focusing on why analytics are important to corporate risk executives. The presenters offered three primary reasons: To ensure that your risk financing strategies are optimally protecting your corporate financial objectives. To save money by optimizing insurance purchasing and leveling the playing field with insurers. To provide an audit trail demonstrating objective decision making. Risk managers use
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