Avoiding Tragedy: Improving Driving Skills Can Lower Damage Costs and Save Lives
Original Program Date: 08-05-2009

Forty percent of all workplace fatalities are due to motor vehicle accidents. Annually car crashes, both on and off the job, exceed $150 billion in costs. Did you know that the vast majority of vehicle accidents are the result of human error? Did you know that the #1 work related death in the workplace is directly associated with vehicle accidents? A consistent, defensive approach to driving can reduce the likelihood of driver error. This Webinar provides the knowledge every driver needs to know including how to prepare your vehicle, how to drive defensively and how to handle situations of extreme weather conditions.

Winning Strategies for Writing Insurance & Indemnification Requirements
Original Program Date: 05-06-2009

This Webinar will help you become skilled at writing standardized and customized insurance requirements for procurement documents, professional services agreements, and construction contracts which 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. This Webinar teaches you how to check certificates of insurance for compliance, and how to train others in your organization to check their own certificates. This Webinar includes valuable sample language and training material that you can use in your contracts.

Special Events: Balancing Risk and Reward Original Program Date: 10-07-2009

Public agencies and the communities they serve host a wide variety of special events that seek to celebrate, entertain, foster good will, provide community leadership and support specific goals. Special events include an array of activities, including athletics, carnivals, fairs, markets, shows, arts and concerts. The risks associated with important "signature activities" and efforts of the public agency must be managed to maximize the intended benefits as well as prevent and minimize losses from injuries, damage to property and interruption to the community.

This Webinar integrates traditional risk management principles and practices into special event planning and management to prevent cancellation, loss of preparation efforts and resources, as well as minimizing or eliminating direct losses and impacts of reputation loss to the agency and community.

Healthy Employees, Lower Claims: Exploring Incentives for Wellness
Original Program Date: 02-25-2009

Time is precious and the reward of good health is no longer incentive enough for us to engage in healthy activities or lower our current health risks. We need supportive environments, supportive systems and supportive people in our lives to help us access and engage in healthy behaviors. How can the workplace play a role? Is it really up to the workplace to do so? This Webinar offers research that makes the case for wellness initiatives, how to implement state-of-the-art programs and how to integrate your current benefits into a coordinated, comprehensive support system for your employees.

Risk Management 101
Original Program Date: 03-25-2009

As the role of the risk manager developed, the practice of risk management changed from a transactional focus to a process focus. For the public entity risk manager, the transactional processes of purchasing insurance and overseeing claims have morphed into processes of identifying risk, addressing exposures and mitigating loss. The Risk Management 101 Webinar addresses the fundamental steps in the risk management process: identify and assess loss exposures, evaluate and select the risk management technique, implement and monitor.

Identification and assessment of loss exposure may seem like an insurmountable task to the new risk manager. It may seem that the loss exposures associated with property and liability risks could fill a three-ring binder, but the risk manager is also faced with identifying loss exposures for net income and personnel. The Risk Management 101 program guides the new risk manager through a systematic process that can be used when identifying loss exposures for property, liability, net income and personnel.

This program helps the new risk manager come to grips with the breadth and depth of risk management in the organization. This program also provides more seasoned risk managers with a format when explaining the risk management process to other members of their organizations or when providing background information during their annual reports to executive management.

Risk Pool Management: Over 20 Years in the Deep End
Original Program Date: 11-04-2009

Arising from the ashes of a brutal hard market in the mid-1970s, public entity risk pools began to provide an essential risk financing tool to governmental entities across the U.S. While the financing of risk was the impetus for pool formation, the critical success element that risk pools brought to the public sector was... responsibility. Public entities no longer enjoyed the luxury of simply buying insurance and then ignoring their exposures. Exposure identification, effective loss control, and comprehensive claims management became essential to the long-term success of public entities' formation of risk-sharing mechanisms we now categorize as risk pools.

Responsibility, relationships, and aggressive management of risk... these fundamental values will cement a successful partnership between the public entity and the pool to which it belongs. These principles, values and success strategies are outlined in detail during this Webinar.

HOT TOPIC: Preparing for Absolute Medicare Compliance
Original Program Date: 07-22-2009

After July 1, 2009, MMSEA (The Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007) ensures that Medicare is the Secondary Payer on settlements involving Medicare eligible claimants. Learn how to employ a formalized process to comply with the reporting obligations and how to manage the set-aside. This Webinar will help you understand the truth and fiction surrounding set asides related to liability claims.