Podcasts & Blogs

Featuring emerging issues impacting the public risk management community, listen and read these resources to remain cognizant of best practices in the profession!
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Where Are They Now: Debolina McClellan

Debolina McClellan was awarded the PRIMA Annual Conference Student Scholarship in 2014. You’ll hear her experience attending the conference and the benefits of her mentorship. She also speaks on the networking opportunities provided by the conference and how they influenced her career journey.

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Best Practices for Timely, Relative and Effective Communication with Your Pool Members

As a pool communications director, I occasionally wish I had the superpower to insert knowledge into our members’ heads; instead, it’s necessary to use the more effective power of communication.

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Artificial Intelligence And Modern Claims Handling

Karl Miller shares the three models of artificial intelligence (AI): predictive, proactive and problem solving, while providing examples of how technology facilitates these processes as it relates to claims.

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Moving Risk Assessment Beyond Heat Maps: Obtaining Meaningful Risk Data to Inform Decision-Making

While heat maps can depict the volume of risks and provide slight context about an organization’s general exposure to risk, heat maps do not provide meaningful data or detail to inform decision-making.

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Anatomy of a Lawsuit

Scott Roloff explains the “ins and outs” of lawsuits and emphasizes the probability of encountering a lawsuit in one’s life, whether summoned as a juror, giving a testimony, or as a plaintiff or defendant.

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Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Youth-Serving Organizations

Almost every week, media outlets report a new case of child sexual abuse taking place in a youth-serving organization setting. To better prepare your organization to prevent child sexual abuse, here are five things educational leaders should consider:

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Pitfalls of Diagnosis and Treatment

Dr. Fernando Branco details how to diagnose complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) as well as the difficulties that are associated with the diagnosis.

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Mental/Behavioral Health: High-Cost Claims & Mitigation Solutions

One of the few silver linings behind the COVID pandemic cloud is that it has drawn attention to the prevalence of mental/behavioral health (MH) challenges, and particularly to their importance in a work context.

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Methods for Agencies to Mitigate Media Inquiry

Richard Spiers explains which events are more prone to capturing the media’s attention, such as police cases, city employee accusations and specific characteristics of a community that may be viewed as significant.

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