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What Can Lawyers Say in Motions to Withdraw?
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This edition of In Practice... with CNA® discusses how lawyers must balance justifying withdrawal with their duty of confidentiality.
Carefully Speaking®: New Models of Care: A Look at Five Aging Services Trends and Challenges
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This edition of Carefully Speaking ®focuses on five trends - from artificial intelligence (AI) to higher resident acuity levels, to shifting care and reimbursement models - that are shaping the aging services industry of the future.
Driver Selection Guide
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The following guidelines can help implement, enhance and maintain your driver selection process.
AlertBulletin: Medical Chaperones: Drafting Effective Policies
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies to help draft effective policies and procedures for medical chaperones.
Ambulatory Surgery Centers: Enhancing Continuity of Care
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This edition of inBrief® offers a checklist designed to help ASCs achieve safe, seamless transitions in care by focusing on such key areas as staffing, training and communication.
Law Firm Website Woes
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Few if any readers would contemplate the creation of an attorney-client relationship by reading a publication in print via email or on a website. When should attorneys take the proactive step of disclaiming the formation of an attorney-client relationship?
Hospital Discharge: Revamping Processes, Reducing Readmissions
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers a range of measures to retool the hospital discharge planning process and increase awareness of post-discharge care directives.
Telemedicine Update: Coordinating Remote and In-person Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® discusses how telemedicine misuse can be mitigated by implementing policies to address the risks posed by remote care, as well as modifying their procedures to better coordinate virtual and in-person modes of care.
Top 10 Risk Control Tips to Avoid Wire Fraud Scams
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses the ten measures law firms can implement to protect themselves, their clients, and third parties from wire transfer fraud.
This edition of Carefully Speaking examines resident-on-resident sexual abuse an emerging risk that calls for a focused proactive response.
Geriatric Psychiatric Units: Six Keys to Safe and Efficient Care
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One quarter of residents admitted to aging services settings have a primary diagnosis of schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression or anxiety disorder and a significantly higher proportion exhibit some degree of dementia or memory loss.
After the COVID Crisis: Restoring Safety, Morale and Trust
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The COVID-19 pandemic, the worst infectious disease outbreak in a century, has been an especially traumatic event for aging services organizations. The crisis seems to be receding, but its psychological effects linger.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Homeless Patients: Meeting the Needs of a Vulnerable Population
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According to a recent estimate about 600000 Americans are homeless on a nightly basis. This population suffers from a variety of disadvantages both medical and social. The unhoused are more susceptible than others to chronic disease mental illness and substance abuse.
Alert: New Scam Targeting Lawyers Wiring Funds
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Lawyers should beware of a sophisticated new hacking scam the FBI refers to as Business E-mail Compromise. Lawyers in multiple states have recently reported being victimized by this scam.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
SPAC Clients Pose Unique Risks for Law Firms
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In this edition of Vantage Point : In this article we explain what SPACs are and why representing their sponsors may pose risks for law firms and lawyers.
Client Intake and Proper Client Selection
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Client intake should never be dismissed as an unimportant but necessary task when taking on a new client. Creating a thorough client intake process is essential in order to establish a strong foundation for an attorney-client relationship whether the relationship lasts for weeks or years.
Law Practice, Podcasts and the Court of Public Opinion
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses how it is best to for attorneys to concentrate on the fundamentals of the attorney-client relationship and acting as the advocate under the parameters of a license to practice law.
Healthcare Risk Exposures Infographic
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CNA has developed this infographic to display top claim allegations in the healthcare industry and how these risk exposures can be mitigated.
CERTA - NRCA Certified Roofing Torch Applicator Program
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Since the implementation of the CERTA Program, CNA has helped roofing contractors save over $12 million in potential incurred claims.
This edition of In Practice with CNA...® emphasizes the importance of evaluating one's options and purchasing appropriate tail coverage before, and not after an attorney retires, changes firms and/or switches insurance carriers.
CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.
Elements of an Effective Screen When Onboarding
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How can your firm implement an effective conflicts of interest screen and have some comfort in its effectiveness if and when the time comes to defend against disqualification motion.
Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.
Photographic Wound Documentation: Ten Guidelines to Help Minimize Digital Imaging Exposures
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This AlertBulletin® is intended to help reduce risk for those organizations engaged in wound photography by standardizing their digital imaging practices.
EHR System Outages: Minimizing the Impact of Downtime
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This edition of AlertBulletin is intended to help aging services settings protect residents and mitigate potential losses during an EHR outage by utilizing readiness and response strategies.
Stemming the Tide of Incivility in the Practice of Law
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This edition of Professional Counsel(r) addresses incivility and what lawyers can do to minimize the uncivil behavior that has become all too pervasive.
For Your Eyes Only: Securing Lawyer-Client Communications
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While acceptable response times were once measured in days modern communication channels have clients counting the hours or even minutes since they sent their email or text. File sharing also has accelerated with clients able to review revise and approve documents instantly.
In this Professional Counsel®, CNA has developed this guide to assist attorneys in creating documents that will enable them to better manage their interactions with potential and actual clients.
This edition of In Practice... with CNA® discusses how dabbling in new areas of law can help expand your practice, but also increase risk for disciplinary and legal malpractice complaints if not prepared.
Serious Adverse Events: Creating a Sound Crisis Response Plan
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This edition of AlertBulletin(r) focuses on the essential elements of serious adverse event crisis management.
This resource outlines the importance of compliance and safety efforts focused on federal requirements as of the date of this guide’s publication.
This edition of Vantage Point® describes the complexities of acute-on-chronic staffing shortfalls, the root causes, and offers risk management recommendations and practical measures to strengthen staff loyalty and improve retention rates.
Documentation Deficiencies: Better Records Mean Stronger Defense
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Sound documentation is an essential risk management tool for aging services organizations enhancing both quality of care and legal defensibility. The healthcare information record serves first and foremost as the foundation for communication among providers and caregivers over time.
Emergency Preparedness: Crafting a Sound Disaster Response Plan
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As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.
America’s Best Professional Liability Insurance
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In Insurance Business America, CNA is named one of America’s Best Professional Liability Insurance companies, based on its outstanding product offerings, first-class broker support and industry knowledge.
CNA Launches Epack 3
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CNA today launched Epack 3, its next generation modular management liability policy that combines clear, concise and easy-to-read language with a flexible policy structure. It is designed to be customized for a wide range of businesses and non-profit organizations.
CNA Enhances Multinational Capabilities with CNA ComPass
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Global businesses of all sizes are growing at an incredible pace.
CNA Appoints Steve Goldman to Senior Vice President
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CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNA today announced the appointment of Steve Goldman to Senior Vice President, Financial Lines and Healthcare. In this role, Steve will guide the strategic and operational plans across these product lines.
CNA's Agent Portal Now Offers Quick Quotes for Workers’ Comp
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CNA today announced it has streamlined the process for agents to receive a quick Workers’ Compensation quote for their small business clients when quoting a CNA Connect policy on CNA Central, the company’s quoting and agent portal.
CNA Introduces CNA CyberPrep, a Holistic Cyber Threat Program
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CNA Introduces CNA CyberPrep, a Holistic Cyber Threat Program
CNA Announces Transfer of Legacy Excess Workers' Comp Portfolio
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CNA announced today that its principal operating subsidiary, Continental Casualty Company, has entered into an agreement with Cavello Bay Reinsurance Limited, a subsidiary of Enstar Group Limited, under which Cavello will reinsure a legacy portfolio of excess workers' compensation policies.
CNA Hardy’s 2019 Global Risk & Confidence Survey published today finds that as global, interconnected risk becomes a reality, reputational risk is rising and business confidence is on the slide.
Life Sciences Success Story Flyer
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Aging Services Successes
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Affinity Large Law Marketing Flyer
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Cyber EPS Flyer
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rc-small-business-insurance-solutions-for-lawyers.pdf
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