Emerging Risk and Insurance

Our communities are a part of a global environment that is dynamically impacted by forces of nature, political climate, employee population, social media, constituency activity and government programming and mandates.

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Identifying and measuring emerging risk as part of the totality of our risk financing mechanisms is difficult in the best of times. The insurance that follows may be costly depending upon our exposures and our loss ratios. The discussion will include balancing reality with global economic pressures as you plan your risk management programming for public entities.

Attendee Takeaways:

  • Learn how to identify global economic trends that may impact your risk programming
  • Understand how community pressures impact emerging risk
  • Capitalize on the relationship with your agent/broker to assist with managing emerging risk
  • Differentiate between perceived reality and the paranoia of risk

PRIMA Institute 2020

PRIMA Institute 2020 or PI20 is the industry’s premier educational event for new or seasonsed risk managers.

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Building a Peer Support Program

This presentation will explore the importance of a peer support program for firefighters while examining the importance of mental health education.

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The presenters will work to reduce the stigma of a holistic approach to firefighter health. An explanation of how a peer support program is organized and utilized will be provided.

Attendee Takeaways:

  • Purpose of a peer support team 
  • The importance of mental health education 
  • The need for the reduction of stigma in the fire department
  • Mental health resources that can be utilized

Leveraging Telehealth to Redefine Intake and Proactively Manage Care

Attendees will learn how intake can be bifurcated to address both care management in tandem with claims management.

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See how to create a virtual occupational medicine clinic and learn about the impact to your patient population. There will be a discussion concerning differences in credentialing with telehealth and brick-and-mortar providers. Lastly, we will discuss chronic pain and how leveraging telehealth can help mitigate risk for this challenging subset of patients.  

Attendee Takeaways:

  • Looking beyond just improving lag-time at intake and the benefits of a clinical front-end program 
  • Understanding credentialing standards and requirements for telehealth
  • How predictive analytics and telehealth for proactive care can mitigate risk

The Importance of Enterprise Risk Management in a COVID-19 Environment

The global pandemic has exposed how business, security, and technology risks converge in a way that creates broader systemic risk.

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This presentation will explore how the Department of Homeland Security is advancing its approach to tracking and managing systemic risk to the Nation’s critical infrastructure and its impact on the broader public-private partnership to promote resilience amidst the pandemic.

ERM Beyond the Risk Assessment – Framework, Principles, and Integration

Though a risk assessment is generally the initial focus of implementing an enterprise risk management program, one of the most common mistakes that organizations make is that they fail to move beyond the risk assessment.

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Though important, a risk assessment effort is only one part of a true ERM program. The most sustainable value actually comes from a shift in the culture of the organization with regards to how it considers, evaluates and acts on risks on an ongoing basis.
 
The ISO 31000 Framework and Principles provide a roadmap on how to incorporate a more risk-aware approach into the daily operations of the organization, formalizing the relationship between effective risk identification and management and the creation and protection of organizational value.
 
Attendee Takeaways:
  • Introduction to ISO 31000 Principles
  • Overview of ISO 31000 Framework
  • Tips on designing a sustainable model
  • Examples for measuring performance over time

Until Help Arrives

This presentation will help attendees recognize, respond, rescue and report in the event of an active killer situation.

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This course will focus on the trauma care for victims of penetrating trauma. The simple skills that will be discussed are proven to save lives. Using battlefield data and modifying the techniques for the civilian world, this webinar can prepare the attendee to possibly save lives.

Attendee Takeaways:

  • Be the help before help arrives
  • Understand the disaster arc to help your chances of survival
  • Learn how to focus on treatment to possibly decrease the number of total casualties
  • Prepare the mind by focusing on situational awareness at all times

Marijuana and CBD

The presentation will teach attendees the history and origin of marijuana while exploring the risks and benefits of both marijuana and CBD, defined with a brief review of case law

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Attendee Takeaways:

  • CBD and marijuana law
  • Risks and benefits of CBD and marijuana
  • Look at the future of CBD and marijuana

Liability and Auto Claims

Attendees will learn the primary elements in handling claims.

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The presenter will walk participants through the denial, acceptance, mediation, insurance carrier ramifications and the influence of politics. Learn to avoid the pitfalls and excel in your departments’ handling of both simple and complex claims.

Attendee Takeaways:

  1. What a claim is and what you can do now to reduce the impact to your organization
  2. What role does politics play in the consideration of your claims handling
  3. What steps you can take when a claim occurs and after you receive the claim
  4. The proper timing to prepare for litigation and when to settle/pay the demand