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Medical Malpractice: A Brief Guide to the Litigation Process
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This AlertBulletin® explores the lifespan of legal proceedings, from complaint to deposition of trial. It offers insight on topics like mutual expectations of insurance companies and insureds, and tips on giving depositions and testifying at trial.
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.
PrepWise Pulse Surveys™
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CNA’s PrepWise Pulse Survey is a tool available for policyholders to solicit anonymous feedback on their corporate safety culture, management support and accountability, orientation and training, and workplace environment.
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.
Pressure Injuries: Prevention and Intervention Strategies for Aging Services Organizations
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This CNA Special Resource describes components of a comprehensive pressure injury prevention program for aging services providers. The resource provides evidence-based interventions and tools to evaluate the components of the program.
Using Your LPL Policy as a Risk Control Tool
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses CNA Risk Control offerings that may minimize claims exposure and aid law firms in establishing better risk control protocols.
Employers can take steps to mitigate risks of negligent entrustment by ensuring the individuals they hire to operate vehicles are qualified, competent and responsible drivers
Risk Mitigation Tips for Contracting with Owner Operators
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Organizations should consider following certain protocols when selecting whom to contract with for the safe and secure transportation of goods.
Recognizing and Managing Your Organization's Shipping Risks
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It is recommended that due diligence be exercised when identifying and selecting third-party transport carriers to hire.
Risk Transfer Suggested Practices
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You may be able to reduce your chances of unknowingly accepting someone else’s liability or being exposed to additional liabilities by following the practices suggested in this guide.
Contemplating Coverage
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This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses the importance of attorneys maintaining proper LPL coverage throughout their career.
Hospitality Industry Ergonomics Guide
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This guide will help you to address challenges in the hospitality industry and create a work environment that prevents injuries, prioritizes employee well-being and enhances productivity.
This resource outlines the importance of compliance and safety efforts focused on federal requirements as of the date of this guide’s publication.
This month's InBrief® discusses several risk management strategies to detect and prevent professional misconduct and abuse within Allied Healthcare facilities.
Carefully Speaking®: Memory Care: Creating Safer Settings for the Cognitively Impaired
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® outlines strategies leaders can use to assess their organization's memory care strengths, limits and liability exposures.
This edition of Professional Counsel® discusses the potential exposures and best practices for lawyers to consider to avoid stumbling into an unintended client engagement.
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.
This edition of AlertBulletin is designed to help facilities protect transgender patients and themselves by understanding regulatory requirements and liability exposures.
Transgender Residents: Creating a Welcoming Atmosphere
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This issue of Alert Bulletin® focuses on aging services settings indicating potential problems in caring for transgender residents and suggesting measures to reduce risk in such areas as staff policies and training marketing admissions and social/recreational programming.
Treatment Follow-through: Improving Patient Access and Adherence
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This edition of inBrief focuses on systemic sources of incomplete follow-through offering strategies to enhance patient access customer service and coordination of care.
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.
Venipuncture Safety: Evaluating Key Policies and Procedures
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This edition of inBrief® offers a venipuncture safety checklist designed for use by both healthcare organizations and clinicians.
Video Surveillance: The Pros and Cons of 'Granny Cams'
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This issue of AlertBulletin® provides a brief overview of the current legal status of granny cams and suggests risk management strategies for organizations.
Violence Prevention in a Home Healthcare
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews violence prevention in the home healthcare setting as well as risk management recommendations to mitigate risks.
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
Wandering and Elopement: Assessing and Addressing the Risks
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In this edition of Carefully Speaking : Wandering and elopement are among the most serious and costly hazards for aging services organizations.
Waste and Linen Chute Protection
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The following tips can help keep your chute safe and 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.
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
Water Heater Maintenance and Service
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This bulletin looks at the few items that given the attention they deserve will decrease the cost of ownership by increasing the life of the heater and doing so in a safe and reliable manner.
Water Heater Maintenance and Service Guide
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While an absence of hot water may not be a life-or-death risk, heater explosions can be catastrophic. If gas leaks in or around your water heater, the small ignition flame can ignite the gas.
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.
Wills Trusts and Estates - Professional Liability Fact Sheet
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Legal malpractice claims arising from estate planning representations surged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and have since continued at an elevated pace.
Wills Trusts and Estates - Third-Party Beneficiaries Claims
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Wills trusts and estates lawyers should be concerned about liability and duties to both their own clients and third-party beneficiaries. Download to learn more about documentation and how it can be effective in client service and practice management.
Winter Driving
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Organizations with employees who drive in winter for company purposes should refer to these safety tips.
Winter Driving Guide
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Provide your employees with these safety tips to help them navigate through the winter driving season.
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.
Workforce Continuity Guide
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Here are some considerations to help business leaders manage an impact to their most important asset.
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.