Train your whole office with no travel expense or time away from the office. All you need is either a computer with Internet access to join in on the Webinar or a telephone to participate through an Audioconference via a toll-free number. You can watch the presentation, submit questions and participate in audience polls. Participate alone or with colleagues. The login information is sent out several days prior to the event. Testing of your computer connection prior to the event is suggested and instructions will be provided with the login information. Free technical support is available.
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A disaster recovery plan protects a company’s greatest asset: the ability to generate revenue. Some organizations can become complacent if they haven’t experienced a major property loss in many years, increasing vulnerability to a significant impact on their business.
Those organizations that are prepared to respond quickly to catastrophic events on a global scale with a solid loss mitigation plan and with experts working on their behalf will resume normal operations sooner. That plan will also help organizations jump-start their claims process by providing the insurance company with timely and relevant data at the outset of a loss.
This Webinar will consider several specific public sector case studies involving catastrophic property and business interruption loss experience and will explain the basic components of loss mitigation efforts and the claims preparation and presentation process.
There is no greater challenge or reward than providing for the safety of the children entrusted to our care. As public entities, we are often challenged by requirements to provide services to children with limited funds and resources. To successfully achieve this goal while protecting students from harm and our entity from potential liabilities, public risk managers must be able to understand the risks associated with programs; the recognized standards of care for safety and best practices to avoid failure.
Those who are in contact with children within public entities should have no surprises about expectations for children’s safety. Clear, consistent and concise policies, procedures and support from administrators can assist them with making the best safety choices in a given situation. This Webinar will illustrate what you need to know to keep children safe at school, on field trips, at parks, or other locations within your entity.
Who Should Attend: • Bus drivers • Day care providers • Facility maintenance workers • Health and human services workers • Parents • Parks and recreation managers • Risk managers • Safety officers • Teachers • Volunteers
This Webinar is designed to help attendees become skilled at writing standardized and customized insurance requirements for procurement documents, professional services agreements, and construction contracts. This will enable you to be realistic, fair and effective in contractually transferring risk to your vendor. You will gain knowledge about the most effective types and uses of the Additional Insured Endorsement under your vendor’s contractually required Commercial General Liability, Business Auto, Builder’s Risk, Pollution Legal Liability, Workers’ Compensation and Excess/Umbrella Liability policies. You will learn how to check certificates of insurance for compliance, and how to train others in your organization on how to check their own certificates. This Webinar will include valuable sample language and training material that you can download and start using in your contracts.
Who Should Attend: • City attorneys and legal assistants • Contract administrators and department heads • Insurance agents and brokers • Purchasing directors and buyers • Risk management consultants • Risk managers and analysts
Formats Available: CD-ROM (Win), Webinar
Original Program Date: 11-17-2010 On-Demand Release Date: November 18, 2010
The role of the public sector risk manager has been evolving steadily since the early 1970’s. The practice of risk management has changed from a transactional focus (simply buying insurance or implementing a safety program) to a process and management focus (trying to identify and manage ALL risks). The Risk Management 101 program addresses the fundamental steps in the risk management process: 1. establish the framework for the process, including your internal and external context, 2. identify and analyze your loss exposures, 3. evaluate and select the best risk management techniques to manage those exposures, 4. monitor and review what you’ve implemented and, 5. throughout the process: communicate, communicate, communicate.
Any one of these steps may seem like an insurmountable task to the new risk manager. This Webinar will help break down the steps into “bite sized portions” that can be implemented at any size organization. The presenters will discuss techniques and examples of success for each stage of the process. No matter where your organization is in relation to managing risk, this program will help you move your program further along.
This program will help the new risk manager come to grips with the breadth and depth of risk management in the organization. It will also provide more seasoned risk managers with a format in which to explain the risk management process to other members of their organizations or when providing background information during their annual reports to executive management.
Who Should Attend: • Department managers • Finance officers who have a risk manager as a direct report • More seasoned risk managers • New risk managers • Safety officers
Formats Available: CD-ROM (Win)
Original Program Date: 01-20-2010 On-Demand Release Date: January 21, 2010
In today's society, most entities will eventually find themselves doing battle in the court system. Many risk managers also serve as litigation managers, strategizing with defense counsel and advising elected officials as the case progresses. If you are sometimes confused by the legal system (and the language that attorneys speak), then this session is for you! Attendees will learn the various components of a lawsuit and what you can expect at each stage of the process. This Webinar will be especially helpful for newer risk managers and others who want to strengthen their expertise in this area of the core competencies.
Who Should Attend: • City attorneys • Claims adjusters • Risk managers
Formats Available: CD-ROM (Win)
Original Program Date: 04-21-2010 On-Demand Release Date: April 21, 2010
Across the country, there have been several high profile lawsuits against public entities and public officials related to wrongful conviction and wrongful incarceration. In many situations, DNA evidence has been used to overturn previous convictions of individuals who sometimes have been incarcerated for more than 10 years. That said, many cases do not involve DNA evidence, but instead involve errors such as mishandled evidence and failure to follow proper police procedures. These wrongful conviction lawsuits can lead to very large jury verdicts or significant settlements.
When these cases arise they may require insureds (public entities) to dedicate significant resources in the civil litigation, re-gather historical evidence, and access insurance policies from 10 - 20 years prior to the reversed conviction in order to determine coverage availability, including the potential for significant expense costs associated with defending the public entity and its employees.
During this Webinar, the presenters will provide an overview of the variety of issues associated with these cases, specific case information, and what an entity can expect to encounter should they be involved in the civil defense associated with a high profile wrongful conviction case.
Who Should Attend: • City and county attorneys and managers • Claim personnel • Governmental pool managers • Insurance industry underwriters • Law enforcement personnel • Risk managers
Formats Available: CD-ROM (Win)
Original Program Date: 02-24-2010 On-Demand Release Date: February 24, 2010
