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The Importance Of Being Able To Ask For Help

Leaders who are intentional about building a collaborative culture will unleash the full capabilities of their team. If you are a manager, when was the last time that you remember someone on your team asking for help?
February 24, 2020 Education & Training

Handling Traumatic Brain Injury Claims

Traumatic brain injuries, often the subject of eye-catching headlines, are now drawing the attention of employers, providers, and judges in the workers compensation industry. But what exactly is a traumatic brain injury (TBI)?
February 21, 2020 Education & Training Workers' Compensation

How To Build A More Diverse Team

As organizations grapple with more complex decisions and an ever-increasing pace of change, building a workforce equipped with the skills and experience to thrive in this environment is critical.

Finding this depth and breadth of talent means building a diverse workforce that covers full spectrum of diversity, including age, ethnicity, gender, thinking styles, disabilities and sexual orientation. This means leaders need to challenge their decision-making patterns.
February 19, 2020 Education & Training

Let’s Talk About Disappointment

1. You’d never know it by looking at social media

I’m not going to sugar-coat it. My 2019 was a year filled with disappointment at work.
February 19, 2020 Education & Training

Is This The Next Big Emerging Property Claims Threat?

Polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) materials are everywhere — and they could be the next big threat to property claims exposure, warned one expert.
February 10, 2020 Education & Training Property

Subrogating Livestock And Vehicle Collisions In Texas

There are 22 million vehicles registered in Texas. There are also 13 million head of cattle, the most in the country and over twice the number of the state with the second-most—Nebraska. Cattle and cars intersect more often than insurance companies would like to think about.
February 6, 2020 Education & Training Subrogation Texas

Massachusetts Weighs In On Third-Party Liability For Diminished Value Damages

A federal district court in Massachusetts has ruled that Massachusetts tort law does not provide for recovery of “inherent diminution in value” damages by a third-party claimant. The Bay State had long been one of only 15 states that do not have any court decisions regarding recovery allowed for diminution in value of a damaged vehicle in a third-party claim.
February 5, 2020 Education & Training Liability Subrogation Massachusetts

Harnessing Alternative Skills In The Insurance Industry

Those of us who have worked in and around the commercial Insurance industry understand that it has a great responsibility to society. Without insurance, trains wouldn’t leave the terminal, power stations wouldn’t produce electricity, sports events wouldn’t happen, banks wouldn’t open — day-to-day life would simply cease to function as people cannot afford to bear the risk of operating.
January 30, 2020 Education & Training

A Contract No One Reads: The Insurance Policy

The Merlin Law Group blog cites a small portion of a lengthy Hastings Law Journal article written by Professor Chuck Knapp. Dr. Knapp did not like the use, by appellate courts, of the concept that there is a duty to read (DTR) an insurance policy.
January 30, 2020 Education & Training Litigation

Personal Branding: Protect Your Online Reputation

The dumping of five candidates from Australia’s 2019 federal election for offensive social media posts served as a reminder of the damage that a poorly managed social media profile can do to a person’s career. An ill-timed comment, a thoughtless response, an opinion that you might change or an action you may come to regret later can’t be erased in a digital era, and so your social media profile can haunt and derail your career.
January 29, 2020 Education & Training Risk Management

CLM’s New CE Webinars Open To Everyone

A new member/fellow benefit is coming to CLM’s webinar series in 2020: In addition to offering topical and practical information nearly every week, many of these webinars will now qualify for an hour of continuing education in certain states.
January 27, 2020 Education & Training

A Self-Destructive Cycle In Insurance

We are stuck in a self-destructive cycle because an industry-wide culture that rejects true innovation leads to a huge talent deficit that prevents innovation.
January 24, 2020 Education & Training

Keeping Up With Conditional Payment Obligations: Effective Strategies For Medicare Conditional-Payment Recovery Cost Containment

Compliance with the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP) in a workers compensation, general liability, or no-fault settlement requires a multi-faceted approach to satisfy three pillars—past, present, and future—of protecting Medicare’s interest.
January 23, 2020 Education & Training Liability Workers' Compensation

To Find Career Success, Overcome Self-Doubt And Take Risks

Put your hand up. Sometimes, that simple act of self-nomination is all it takes to kickstart a positive career trajectory. And yet sometimes, it feels like that arm is weighed down by a lead balloon.
January 23, 2020 Education & Training

Wildfire Around The World: A Threat Without Borders

Firefighters in the western United States face a shared struggle with others around the world who battle wildfires as the “seasons” for these events seem to grow longer and more destructive every year. Climate change and human encroachment on wildlands—driven by property development and agriculture—have fostered conditions that increase fire risk in disparate regions, from California, to Australia, to the Amazon rainforest, to Siberia.
January 22, 2020 Catastrophe Education & Training Property
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