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Ethical Marketing: Minimizing the Risks of False Advertising
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This Home Care Briefing® examines some of the legal and regulatory concepts governing healthcare advertising and offers basic guidelines for minimizing marketing-related risks.
Nurse Practitioner Claim Report: 4th Edition
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In collaboration with our partners at Nurses Service Organization (NSO) we at CNA insure over 26000 nurse practitioners (NPs) in a wide variety of settings. We are pleased to present our fourth nurse practitioner closed claim report.
AlertBulletin: Antibiotic Overuse Stewardship Program
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.
Watch Out for Trust and Estate Risk
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Claims against lawyers arising from trust and estate engagements are skyrocketing in both number and severity. CNA data reveals that claim frequency is 25% higher for trust and estate representations compared to other areas of practice.
What Lawyers Need to Know About New Reporting Required Under the Corporate Transparency Act
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA identifies new reporting requirements enacted by the Corporate Transparency Act and the associated ethical considerations.
Patient/Client Portals: Maximizing Benefits, Minimizing Risks
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This month's InBrief® highlights the many benefits and efficiencies of portal use, notes common risks, and recommends practical strategies to protect patient/client confidentiality and ensuree that portals are used safely, properly and efficiently.
This AlertBulletin looks at the need to develop an understanding of COC that can aid staff in detecting significant changes.
Special Resource: The Mental Health Crisis
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The ongoing national mental health crisis is characterized by too few inpatient beds and overtaxed outpatient facilities. In fact under the present delivery system it is estimated that more than half a million individuals with serious mental illness do not receive the care they need.
Provider Burnout: A Root Cause Approach to Reducing Stress
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Clinical burnout is a work-related syndrome experienced by an increasing number of physicians nurses physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Independent Living: Major Risk Factors Effective Interventions
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This Alert Bulletin highlights critical issues facing independent living including increasing acuity levels and care needs as well as allegations of wrongful placement and retention.
This In Practice...with CNA® defines ethical principles that govern attorneys' behavior in bankruptcy cases. These help attorneys work to avoid problems, establish strong risk management procedures and serve their clients' interests successfully.
New York City Sidewalk Law
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If you own or lease space within a property in New York City, it is vital to understand where your responsibilities lie when it comes to sidewalk maintenance.
This edition of Professional Counsel emphasizes how attorneys must be aware of how the use of ChatGPT would impact their practice, client matters and ethical concerns that may lead to allegations of legal malpractice.
Conflict of Interest Issues in Representing the Company/Employee
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Times arise particularly in litigation where a lawyer for an entity might find it useful to represent an employee or other constituent of the entity for some limited purpose. This dual representation of an entity and its constituent raises a number of practice issues.
MA Appeals Court Clarifies How Irrevocable Trusts
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In Practice with CNA discusses the potential challenges Wills Trusts and Estates practitioners face when a client representation involves the existence of an irrevocable trust which may influence eligibility for Medicaid.
Spyware Schemes & Sticky Fingers: Reacting to Client Misconduct
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A client's past misdeeds are rarely a dealbreaker for a prospective attorney-client relationship. Every day lawyers help clients address the consequences of illegal conduct and analyze the legal aspects of questionable conduct.
Urgent Care: Five Essential Strategies to Minimize Common Risks
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This issue of inBrief® reviews the customary scope of urgent care services and offers risk management strategies designed to prevent or mitigate clinical lapses that may result in patient injury and consequent litigation.
Risk Control Global Solutions
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Working closely with agents and policyholders, CNA’s Risk Control team helps identify exposures and provide solutions to mitigate loss.
Declining Representation with Prospective Clients
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What can a lawyer do to politely yet firmly place the potential client on notice that no attorney-client relationship has been established yet at the same time not discourage future opportunities for representation?
Inside the lines: Scope Limitations and Legal Ghostwriting
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As financial pressure from the Great Recession becomes the new normal and even the least tech-savvy Americans tackle most errands from behind a computer screen consumers have cast a critical eye towards the traditional attorney-client relationship.
Pressure Injuries: Enhancing Assessment and Documentation
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This edition of Carefully Speaking presents a range of documentation measures including a skin integrity program gap analysis tool to help organizations reduce their risk and strengthen defensibility.
More Money More Problems
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The frequency of Alternative Litigation Financing (ALF) where a third party provides money to cash-needy claimant in exchange for a financial stake in the outcome of the case is growing rapidly. This article examines the risk exposures of ALF.
Behavioral Health Patients: A Risk Management Overview
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers practical strategies designed to strengthen behavioral patient screening and assessment management of psychiatric patients in the ED, inpatient management of comorbidities, environmental safety and patient discharge.
Patient Safety Data: A Guide to Preventing Unwanted Disclosure
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Quality and safety improvement in healthcare settings depends upon candid discussion of process problems provider misjudgments staff miscommunications adverse events near misses and other lapses.
Ethical Pitfalls in Non-Traditional Attorney Roles
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In today's market more attorneys are looking beyond traditional legal counsel assignments and taking on rolls as mediators and arbitrators. Download our guide to learn more about vital risk control techniques to effectively manage the risks of accepting these appointments
COVID-19: Achieving Recovery Through Risk Management
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This Special Resource serves as a reference for healthcare organizations seeking to evaluate risk exposures associated with COVID-19.
Fire Safety Strategies to Protect Clients and Reduce Exposure
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This issue of Home Care Briefing focuses on the types of fires that pose the greatest danger to seniors and offers practical protective measures for clients and family members.
Device and Drug Recalls: Enhancing Preparedness Reducing Risk
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This edition of inBrief presents a self-assessment guide to help healthcare facilities evaluate their degree of readiness for negotiating recall situations.
Office Sharing and Professional Responsibility
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA® discusses professional responsibility concerns that lawyers endure when sharing an office space and how to take necessary precautions when in this space.
Next Generation Settings: Satisfying the Needs of Active Seniors
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This edition of AlertBulletin® offers strategies to help aging services operators differentiate and reinvent themselves.
This Professional Counsel® shows that by embracing succession planning as a strategic imperative, firms can position themselves for growth, resilience, preparedness for unforeseen events, and continued excellence in serving their clients.
This edition of Carefully Speaking® offers recommendations that are intended to help aging services organizations evaluate and upgrade their degree pf security preparedness.
Pressure Injuries: Sound Documentation Is Key to Defensibility
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® focuses on documentation of three vital elements of care: resident assessment/examination, care/service planning and team communication.
The Importance of Incident Response Planning: A Cyber Risk Control Perspective for Law Firms
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Having a well-documented Incident Response Plan can greatly mitigate exposure in the event of a cyberattack.
Retiring from Practice: Understanding Your Options
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An attorney like anyone else looks toward retirement with mixed emotions. Retirement means bidding farewell to angry client phone calls and late night brief writing but it also means stepping away from your life's work.
Law Firm Support Staff
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They hold various titles for their daily roles: paralegal legal secretary paraprofessional law clerk project assistant docketing clerk research assistant and the list is ever expanding.
Second Chances Abound: Opportunities for Correcting Certain Omissions and Mistakes in Tax Elections
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses tax laws and regulations and risk management tips to avoid election deadlines or managing filing errors.
Client Selection: Comprehensive Screening and Assessment
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This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the elements of a prospective client screening and assessment procedure and offers a number of suggestions to help strengthen documentation in these areas.
This edition of In Practice...with CNA® discusses why law firms need to be aware of the types of conflicts that most often lead to disqualification and the types of attorneys who may be affected.
Telemedicine: A Brief Guide to the Emerging Risks of Remote Care
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Telemedicine is one aspect of the broader practice of telehealth which encompasses a range of clinical services.
This edition of Vantage Point® list common types of acquired infections and discusses the four cornerstones of an effective infection control program.
Practicing Law Without A Law Degree Is Now Permissible In WA
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Non-lawyers are now permitted to practice family law in Washington State as a result of a rule change approved by the Washington Supreme Court in 2012.
Giving Business Advice Versus Legal Advice - The Pitfalls
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A lawyer's role and duty is to give advice - advice that might not be well received advice that when followed might not result in the best outcome advice that even when objectively correct ends up placing the lawyer in a defensive posture.
COVID-19 Returning to Work Prep Guide
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By taking time to prepare and plan for sound re-entry provisions, employers minimize chaos, foster trust in the workplace and fulfill their responsibility to safeguard employees.
Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19: A Menu of Ideas for Lawyers
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Few attorneys were prepared to adapt to a pandemic. In today's environment lawyers have been required to chart a changing course in order to provide competent legal services to their clients. This information is intended to identify some potential effects of the pandemic on the legal profession.
Aging Services Mergers and Closures: A Resident Care Perspective
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This edition of AlertBulletin suggests a variety of proactive measures designed to help organizations achieve a safe a smooth transition during a merger or closure.
Scope of Practice Changes: Ten Keys to Safer Delegation
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This edition of Vantage Point provides a decision-making framework, organized around 10 questions, to help administrators, healthcare providers or practice leaders identify and address risks associated with SOP and delegation standards.
Fall Pocket Guide: Risk and Defensibility
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This guide is designed to encourage a proactive, systemic approach to enhancing resident safety by minimizing the likelihood of resident falls and mitigating their consequences.
Clients with Diminished Capacity
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As more people live longer and work longer attorneys will encounter more clients who have reached an advanced age whether they are seeking to purchase real estate sell their business pursue a personal injury claim or get married.
You Missed a Deadline??? How to Avoid That Nightmare
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA, discusses the substantial risks that exist for law firms that fail to diligently monitor case dockets, read court orders and adhere to filing deadlines.