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This edition of AlertBulletin® examines causes and effects of social inflation, how insurance can be affected, and offers several risk mitigation strategies to minimize exposure to social inflation.
Use this guide to help quantify your facilities’ freeze risk and to implement preventative measures to keep your key fire protection systems operating as intended during the cold weather months.
Sprinkler System Freeze-Up Prevention
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Cold weather brings the danger of impaired fire protection because of water freezing in sprinkler piping, underground mains, gravity suction tanks or fire pumps.
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.
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.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
Sun Exposures for Contractors
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It is important to take steps to stay cool and protect yourself and employees from overexposure.
Supply Chain Management: Avoid Disruption by Enhancing Readiness
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As outside suppliers become less reliable problems related to internal supply chain operations become more visible and potentially harmful.
Supply Chain Risk Management
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Understanding and analyzing your supply chain's strengths and vulnerabilities are vital components of business continuity management.
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 AlertBulletin offers practical suggestions intended to help organizations maximize the productivity of temporary exmployees, while minimizing associated professional liability exposures.
The Driver: Driving Under the Influence
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Regardless of the substance, driving while impaired can cause significant cognitive and functional challenges.
Digital technology has transformed healthcare documentation.
Building a Safe and Practical Law Firm Artificial Intelligence Policy: A Risk Management Playbook
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Advice and Insight into the Practice of Law®
The Driver: Situational Awareness While Driving
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Situational awareness while driving is integral to ensuring that your actions and reactions can be completed in sufficient time to prevent an accident.
The Driver: Tips for Wintertime Driving
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Driving in winter presents a variety of weather-related hazards. Preparing ahead of time and being alert are critical to safety amid weather changes, poor visibility, and wet or slippery road conditions.
The Driver: Tips to Reduce Auto Accidents
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In 2020, the United States and Canada had fewer vehicles on the road, but the decrease in miles driven did not correlate to fewer accidents.
The Driver: Understanding Driver Distractions
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In 2020, almost 3,000 fatal and 205,000 nonfatal distraction-related motor vehicle accidents occurred in the United States and in some parts of Canada, surpassing those caused by impaired driving.
The Remote-Ready Law Firm: Managing Long Distance Relationships
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The benefits of creating a remote-capable business are well worth the investment enabling a firm to maximize productivity when traveling attract top-level talent and maintain functionality during a crisis.
Thorny Issues Involving the Concealment of Information
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Lawyers must balance their duties to their client against both express legal duties to adversaries and general duties of truthfulness.
To Avoid or Embrace? Navigating Third Party Legal Opinions
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses different practices and tools lawyers should consider when offering legal opinions for third parties to help mitigate potential risk.
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.
Trench Inspection Checklist
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Use this checklist to ensure trenches are properly inspected prior to the start of work.
Trench Inspection Checklist - Spanish
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Use this checklist to ensure trenches are properly inspected prior to the start of work.
Trustees and Investing: Best Practices to Avoid Liability
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The responsibility of being a trustee carries with it multiple duties. This article includes a list of the most common trustee duties.
Understanding Your EMR
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If your company carries Workers Compensation insurance and meets the minimum premium threshold to be eligible in your state you will have an EMR. This guide will clear up some misconceptions about EMR and provide helpful examples to illustrate how it is calculated.
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.
Vegetation Management
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This guide provides valuable risk management recommendations to help ensure proper and safe use of vegetation management chemicals.
Virtual Capabilities and Digital Solutions
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Maximizing flexibility and convenience for policyholders, our innovative virtual resources can help insureds save time and mitigate risk by identifying and addressing hidden exposures.
Walkway Management Group
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Walkway Management Group (WMG) provides walkway testing and hazard remediation technology services and products
Waste and Linen Chute Protection
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The following tips can help keep your chute safe and reduce risk.
Attorney Mobility and Law Firm Risk: How the Rules, Procedure and the Marketplace Shape the Modern Lateral Move
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The logistical complexity of lawyer mobility involves a combination of ethical responsibilities, professional liability concerns, practical client relationship management, and business strategy.
Water Damage Incident Response Guide
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Responding to water damage incidents is similar – every minute of delay increases the risk of property damage and an extended business disruption
Water Damage Technology Solutions
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Here are ways you can leverage technology to minimize the impact and maximize the effectiveness of your water damage mitigation programs.
Water Damage: Prepare, Respond, Improve
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This checklist provides considerations business leaders can take before, during and after a water damage incident to improve business resilience
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.
Wire Transfer Fraud: A Growing Threat to Law Firms
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Lawyers in any area of practice may fall victim to wire transfer fraud and must often serve as their own risk managers in managing their professional practices.
Working in Confined Space - Spanish
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A workplace with a confined space that combines an oxygen-deficient flammable or toxic atmosphere can complicate work efforts as well as rescue operations if an emergency would occur. Download to learn more about best practices when working in a confined space.
Working in Confined Spaces
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A “confined space” may be generally defined as any area which has limited means of egress and is subject to oxygen deficient atmosphere or to the accumulation of toxic or flammable vapors.
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.
Beyond HR
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Management training, including preventing harassment and wrongful termination. Periodic training can help prevent certain wrongful employment practices.
Wet Work Permit Guide
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Water damage events are a primary cause of loss on construction sites. Learn about Wet Work Permits and more with this detailed guide.
Healthcare Email Preference Center
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Lawyers Professional Liability Email Subscription Center
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At CNA, we are committed to providing our customers with industry-specific information on leading trends and issues. Please subscribe to receive communications on the resources most relevant to your business’ success.
Risk Control e-Talks
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This three part audio series focuses on a different aspect of business resiliency and how it helps businesses navigate the pandemic, civil unrest, hurricane season and more.
SORCE On Demand
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Access our library of risk control courses based on proven adult learning principles and the latest regulatory requirements in our online training.
The Fully Remote Law Firm: Ethical Opportunities, Practical Risks & Professional Responsibility in a Virtual Legal Landscape
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A fully remote law firm must navigate the same professional responsibilities as a traditional practice.
Vehicle Accident Report Kit
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Contains Instructions and Forms:
- Driver's Report of Motor Vehicle Accident
- Traffic Accident Exchange Information
- Witness Information Cards
Medical Director Liability: A Look at Director Duties and Risks
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Medical directors play a key administrative role in many different types of healthcare operations.
Our Allied Vendor Program connects policyholders with companies to help develop critical programs and procedures that supplement CNA’s risk control offerings.