Public Risk Management

The Cyber Security Landscape: 2021 and Beyond

David Lupinsky ,Sr. Vice President of Products at CorVel, shares the Opportunities and Benefits of Telehealth/Digital Health. The primary benefit is that healthcare is being brought to patients, instead of patients having to go to healthcare. It also has caused savings for employers, increased productivity at the workplace, better and more efficient care for the individual and subsequently leading...

Jason McMahon, Risk Manager for Midwest Public Risk, offers insights and preventive strategies for Cyber Incidents. He starts off by answering why we still see so many cyber incidents; explaining that oftentimes it doesn’t become a priority for entities until there’s been an issue. He shares tips that can help in determining if an email is phishing or not and what he’s seen from the claim side tha...

Thomas Bullock, Director of Education and Training at Virginia Risk Sharing Association (VRSA), teaches how to identify and respond to current and future cyber security threats. Cyber Security has transitioned from protecting data to every area that we use the internet, from social media and email to GPS and medical records. Thomas explains how cyber attacks stem from organizational problems, not...

Brian Mahy, AVP, Marketing & Business Development for Trident Public Risk Solutions, instructs how to expand a social media following. When considering communication practices he compares the usefulness of social media to a town square. It's a place for important information where people will already be congregating. In order to grow an audience, it's important to set specific goals and milestones...

Diane Becker, explains what it means to communicate with a frog. It encompasses the unique and effective techniques for communication with members. She explains why starting with the audience is key - asking who they are, and what their needs are. Secondly, it’s having a specific goal. She suggests the first goal to be building trust with the audience. That will lead to better interactions and und...

Scott Roloff, President or IntergerHealth Technologies, explains how his work in quantifying the outcome of healthcare costs can drive down the costs and improve the quality of care. He shares the different quality measures that Health Providers use, and how employers can better rank their doctors. He discusses the different ways they measure ROI and the key analytics for finding their Claims per...

John Roy, Sr. Risk Control Field Representative, Tokio Marine HCC, discusses the practices to safeguarding parks and recreational areas for children. He explains how liability trends are changing from the past - an increase of bike paths and walking trails have their own liability issues. Also how water features can pose a threat at chemical access points and the importance of having a checklist o...

2022 Annual Conference - Chase Burton

Annual Conference Reflection - Kaylee Boggan

This week's podcast episode we have William Huang who is an undergraduate student studying risk management and insurance at St. John's University share his experience at Prima's 2022 annual conference. Listen in on William's greatest takeaways included being able to connect with the diversity of attendees, gaining better understanding on how risk management works on a domestic and international le...

Joaquina Scott Kankam, Director and Senior Consultant, School of Solutions, discusses how to better protect youth and cyber security. The first step is to implement a clear policy, she explains what it should include and how to ensure that it’s effective with and being adhered to. She also provides the effect of the pandemic on Cyber Risk, what to do with social platforms managed by multiple peopl...

Joseph Whitlock, Senior Advisor, Health, Safety, and Industrial Hygiene, EFI Global, explains COVID-19 Engineering and Facility Controls. He saw organizations use a variety of tactics to reduce COVID-19, some of which worked while others didn’t. He explains why local HEPA filtration units worked best, especially for facilities that weren’t capable of upgrading their HVAC systems, as well as the si...

Applying Health And Safety Trends To Your Organization

PRIMA Institute 2022 With Amy Larson by Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA)

Sarah Lintecum, Counsel at Lathrop GPM LLP, provides what Risk Managers should know about Environmental Risks. She shares three types of environmental risks that organizations should consider in terms of insurance needs: climate change, Potential liability caused by emerging contaminants, such as PFAS, and air pollution and indoor air quality. She explains how environmental liability is expensive...

Christine Packard, the Director of Enterprise Risk Management at the University of Massachusetts talks about Leveraging Enterprise Risk Management as a Crisis Response Tool, applied to the specific instance of COVID 19. With two decades of experience in crisis response prior to working at the University of Massachusetts, she has in-depth expertise on managing crisis. Christine shares how the found...

Minimizing Pharmacy Plan Costs with Lisa Stamm Lisa Stamm, VP of Consulting Services at Sherril Morgan discusses minimizing pharmacy plan costs. She explains how the pharmaceutical industry is one of the most complex and expensive costs for companies that sponsor health plans, specifically determining how much is being paid toward pharmacy benefit management. Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) main r...

Carl Amritt, Analyst for Public Safety and Homeland Security, shares best practices for new risk managers, his takeaways from the Annual Prima Conference, the two PRIMA resources that greatly benefit his work and how enterprise risk management is embedded in different areas such as financial, situational, and environmental. Carl’s advice for new risk managers is to create a risk awareness culture...

Nicholas Esty is a Professional Liability Account Executive at Risk Placement Services (RPS). The Prima Annual Conference Scholarship recipient in 2017, he shares the sessions that stood out to him, some of the other activities that were offered and how it was an overall educational and fun experience that also led to great networking opportunities. He describes how he got onto the Risk Management...

Dalene Bartholomew, Vice President of VRC Investigations talks about the risks, rewards and getting positive results of strategic business partnerships. She explains how organizations utilize outsourcing of service providers to reach their goals. Specifically for the insurance industry, the team is built around their staff so outsourcing service providers builds value, and by leveraging its advant...

Debolina McClellan was awarded the Prima scholarship in 2014. You'll hear her experience attending the conference, being mentored and its benefits as well as insight, networking opportunities and how it influenced her career journey. Currently at Galaxy Digital - which specializes in cryptocurrency investment. Debolina recounts her experience transitioning from traditional finance into cryptocurre...

The Role of Policymakers in Encouraging SMB Growth. The speaker is Nilesh Mehta Nilesh Mehta, Founder/CEO of Independent Bridge Consulting, talks about the non-partisan issue of monopolies, such as inflation, less innovation as well as a widening wealth gap. He shares the numerous opportunities to create wealth if the government would provide additional support for black, women and veteran-owned b...

Artificial Intelligence And Modern Claims Handling with Karl Miller Karl Miller, AVP, Sales and Compliance at American Computer Estimating, explains how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has drastically impacted handling Claims. He shares the three models of AI: Predictive, Proactive and Problem Solving - and the technology and examples on how they’ve created a new process. He also shares how AI improv...

Anatomy Of A Lawsuit Scott Roloff is the President of Integer Health Technologies. Starting as a CPA then a Lawyer, first as a tax lawyer before switching to corporate law. At Integer Health Technologies, a healthcare analytics company, their primary focus is to measure the return on healthcare costs, quantifying healthcare outcomes. He explains the ins and outs of lawsuits and how in some fashion...