Public Risk Management

On this PRIMA podcast Richard Spiers will discuss key considerations in high-profile critical incidents. Richard has been in the insurance industry since 1980. He has served as a Claims Executive in the reinsurance and excess marketplace since 1985.

On this PRIMA podcast, Robin Leal will discuss Sober Living Homes. Robin is the second Second Vice President of Public Sector Services at Travelers. What exactly is a Sober Living Home (SLH) Sober living home is used to describe a drug-free environment where an individual lives after a drug rehabilitation stay. Rehabbing adults will live in a group home with six or less adults typically, while tra...

This week’s guest is Terri Evans, she is the risk manager for the city of Kingsport, TN and was the President of PRIMA in 2017. She will be sharing what to know when establishing an on-site health center in your entity. Establish the reason of an On-site health center Manage health care costs, improve wellness, work within their worker's compensation around the job injury program. You may want to...

Root Causes of Cyber Bullying Increase With the multitude of social media platforms available to young people research tells us that these platforms tend to give the perception that individuals have the freedom to be mean spirited and/or exhibit mean behavior to others without fear of any kind of accountability or action taken against them. What’s most concerning is that cyber bullying has doubled...

Acquisition Cost Index Pricing For Medications With Mark Morgan

What to know about V2V and V2L Technologies Thom Rickert is the Vice President for the Argo Group, serving also as its Emerging Risk Specialist. With over 3 decades of insurance industry experience, he is just the person to talk to about the emerging V2V and V2I technologies.

Drug Formularies: A Growing Trend In Workers’ Compensation with Ben Roberts Today’s guest is Ben Roberts who explains the advantages and/or limitations of what a Drug formulary is and if your entity should consider it if the legislation and/or regulators in your state propose it as an option to help reduce certain prescribed drugs such as opioids. Drug Formularies: A list of medications that may o...

Mental Wellbeing in the workplace with Teresa Bartlett

On this week’s episode we have Joshua Traynor and TJ Sayers will discuss election security. The EAC provides a lot of resources as well on their website. Some of them are glossaries for IT terms, common cybersecurity terminology. They have incident response best practices, some videos to understand cybersecurity, and the many offers that are available to election offices. They also provide best pr...

Lessons From DHS Cyber Incident Response by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Lessons Learned From Being An Adversary by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Securing Federal Networks by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Cyber Attacks by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Ransomware by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Overview by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Behavior-based safety focuses on the root cause of an issue rather than the act itself. For example, emphasis may be placed on following distance while driving when examining an accident. Was the driver hitting the brakes because they are inattentive, not leaving themselves enough space or putting themselves in a dangerous space? Understanding the root causes of an issue helps reduce ‘close calls’...

The Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Act has expanded the scope of workers’ compensation and liability claims beyond each individual state’s law concerning Medicare compliance. It also extends responsibility to plaintiffs’ attorneys, claimants of state, as well as self-insureds. As a result, it is vital to realize who is making payments for medical benefits on both accepted cases and disputed cases....

The risk management arena sometimes may seem a little gray, particularly if it involves the services of borrowed employees. For example, under law, an organization or municipality can be held liable for injuries suffered by a third party even if the individual is an employee borrowed from another company or an independent contractor. Such employees present a slippery slope for organizations who se...

With a great number of organizations striving towards ever greater integration, microlearning has become a viable training method due to its engaging and interactive nature. Microlearning offers a series of short courses that are designed to expound on very specific points of a key topic. Topics and Format At times associated with meeting the needs of millennials, microlearning provides bite-sized...

Web-based safety training affords both private and public entities the opportunity to salvage employees’ ability to work without traveling long distances for training, therefore saving copious amounts of time and money. For instance, one county that was part of a Webnet study was able to save half a million dollars in lost employee productivity after five years of utilizing an online safety traini...

Amy Larson has served as the Risk litigation manager for the city of Bloomington, Minnesota for the past 18 years. With over 22 years of experience as Risk manager, Amy is PRIMA’s 2017/2018 President. Terri Evans service includes a variety of positions in Kingsport Tennessee, being the city’s Risk manager since the year 2001. She is Amy’s predecessor as the President of PRIMA, having served her ma...

On this week's podcast the President and CEO of DORN, Kevin Lombardo discuss chronic pain in our aging workforces across the United States. Since 2000, DORN Companies has helped workers stay healthy and employers avoid costly workers’ compensation and healthcare claims. We started as a pain mitigation company, providing practical therapy that works. Over time, we moved into preventing workplace in...

Michelle Despres is the Vice President and Natural Product Leader for One Call Care Management. Set on improving the return-to work-results, Michelle explains the importance of biopsychosocial approach in workers’ compensation treatment plan.

Our guest today is Eric Patten, RN, BSN, Senior Director of Clinical Education Services at One Call Care Management which is the nation’s leading provider of specialized solutions to the workers’ compensation industry. Eric and his team review reports on how to better address comorbid issues that commonly impact workers’ compensation claims such as hypertension, mental health issues, obesity, diab...

Joyce Dunn is the Vice President and Managing Director for the Jacobson Group, running different executive-level searches for multiple organizations. Acknowledging the existence of emerging human resource shortage, she shares her expertise on how ERM tackles the new impending risk within the insurance industry. ERM platform has enjoyed much success in the insurance industry ever since its formal i...