Ensure Your Customers Are Prepared When Natural Catastrophes Strike
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This new webinar is part of Business Insurance’s Middle-Market Challenges Series of Webinars. With record catastrophe losses in 2011, helping clients to understand and manage their catastrophe exposure can save lives and dollars, and may make the difference in keeping a business operating through a crisis. This is especially true for middle-market organizations that may not have a dedicated risk manager with the time and resources to be able to focus on such problems and solutions. This 60-minute webinar will review not only preparations that organizations can make to minimize damage and business interruption, but also steps to streamline the claims/recovery process after a loss. Our expert panel will focus on advice for middle-market companies, as well as the brokers that serve this market. Presenting will be: Jill Dalton, Partner, Dempsey Partners LLC, and Gregory P. Lanshe, Director of Property Loss Prevention Services-Risk Engineering, Zurich Services Corporation. The webinar will be moderated by Business Insurance Senior Editor Mark Hofmann. To view this $30 on-demand event, please register here.
Do Your Clients Have a D&O Problem?
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This new webinar is part of Business Insurance’s Middle-Market Challenges Series of Webinars. Increasingly, private/non-profit companies are looking for ways to shield their top executives from liability, and are turning to the same directors & officers liability insurance coverage that large publicly held companies buy. While shareholder lawsuits drive most lawsuits against publicly held companies, there are other exposures that lead to the need for D&O protection. Whether they are publicly traded, privately held or a nonprofit, midsize and smaller firms also face the risk of lawsuits filed by employees, competitors, vendors and regulators. International operations can also create exposures. Understanding the liability exposures facing mid-sized companies, and whether D&O protection is the solution, is the focus of this webinar. Our expert panel will focus on advice for middle-market companies, as well as the brokers that serve this market. Presenting will be Edward M. Joyce, Partner, Jones Day, and Bertrand Spunberg, Senior Vp, Management Liability Product Head, Hiscox USA. The webinar will be moderated by Business Insurance Associate Editor Matt Dunning. To view this $30 on-demand event, please register here.
Exploring Alternative Risk Financing Options for Employee Benefits
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This new webinar is part of Business Insurance’s Middle-Market Challenges Series of Webinars. This presentation will cover latest trends for brokers who aim to help their middle-market clients explore alternative risk financing options, including captives and self-insured arrangements, for their health care employee benefit programs. Attendees will learn how to advise clients considering traditional self-funding of health benefits and/or "blended" programs that combine large deductible plans with a self-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement. The presentation will also explore using a captive to fund stop-loss coverage for a self-funded benefits program as a way to avoid the risk of "lasering," in which stop-loss carriers laser in on an individual plan member whose health history or diagnosis indicates that he/she will likely be a high-cost claimant. Often the carrier will either double the attachment point or, in more severe cases, exclude coverage entirely, for this person. If a midsize business cannot handle the retained exposure, it could bankrupt a self-funded benefit plan. Presenting will be Robert J. Melillo, National Vice President of Risk Financing Solutions, USI Insurance Services, and Rick Stasi, Executive Vice President of Alternative Risk, Avizent. The webinar will be moderated by Business Insurance Senior Editor Joanne Wojcik. To view this $30 on-demand event, please register here.
International Expansion Risks for Middle-Market Firms
While expansion into foreign markets is often vital to a mid-market company’s long-term growth, it is also fraught with significant risks and potential liability exposures that firms and their executives must take into account before expanding internationally. Insurance products are available to mitigate some of these risks, but simply purchasing coverage is not enough. Fully understanding the scope of the insurance—and the appropriate loss control strategies—is as crucial as understanding the risks themselves. During a free Nov. 9 Business Insurance webinar—sponsored by Zurich Insurance—experts in the global risk management field will examine the complex risk profile mid-market firms are likely to encounter as they enter the international marketplace, as well as the insurance products designed to address those risks. Presenting will be Bill Skapof, head of the commercial international initiative at Zurich North America Commercial, and Shawn Burnsworth, vp and practice leader-international for Wells Fargo Insurance Services. The webinar will be moderated by Business Insurance Associate Editor Matt Dunning. To view this free on-demand event, please register here.
Behind the Looking Glass: Lessons Learned from Network Security Breaches
With an expanding array of privacy regulations and a persistent threat of security breaches, all businesses that store private information, from health care organizations to retailers, should be concerned about improving how that data is protected. This webinar, presented by OneBeacon Professional Insurance, will share lessons learned from professionals in insurance, law, and computer forensics. These experts will review common trends and potential causes of data and privacy breaches as well as mitigation techniques that can be cost-effectively deployed. Attendees will understand what happens behind the scenes when a breach occurs and how to better prepare for a breach—no matter what the size of the company. Panelists include David J. Molitano, Vice President, Manager - Content, Technology & Services Division, for OneBeacon Professional Insurance; Paul E. Paray, Of Counsel to Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker L.L.P.; and Bryan J. Rose, Managing Director of Stroz Freidberg. To view this free on-demand event, please register here.
Catastrophe Management: Taking Care of Business When Disaster Strikes
Natural catastrophes like windstorms, earthquakes, floods or pandemics—or even manmade events, such as acts of terrorism or industrial disasters—can cause huge disruptions in businesses’ ability to function, hitting physical facilities, transportation networks, information technology systems, power supplies and employees. To survive such a catastrophe, a business must be able to continue operations even as it recovers from the disaster. This free Business Insurance webinar—sponsored by Zurich Insurance—will present business continuity experts who will explore issues risk managers and their companies should consider as they craft business continuity strategies. Panelists will include Gary S. Lynch, managing director at Marsh Risk Consulting, and public policy advisor Arrietta Chakos. For more information about the speakers and to register for the free on-demand event, please register here.
Dormant Dangers: Protecting Key Corporate Assets from Cyber Attacks
Data thieves increasingly are looking beyond financial data and sensitive customer information and zeroing in on the very heart of a
corporation: its most vital intellectual assets. Such attacks, known as advanced persistent threats, can result in valuable corporate
information, such as acquisition plans and product designs, being stolen and sold to rivals. APTs establish a long-term occupying presence
with a company’s network, planting malware that can lay dormant for years before problems begin. This Business Insurance webinar
will how explore how APTs work, how they can be detected and what risk managers can do to protect their company’s key intellectual assets.
Presenting will be Larry Collins, head of e-solutions and vp of health, safety and environmental risk engineering at Zurich Services Corp.;
and Mark Greisiger, president of NetDiligence. Business Insurance Associate Editor Mike Tsikoudakis will moderate the webinar.
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Friends & Foes: Best Practices for Social Media Risk Management
A Business Insurance Special Webinar
Cost: $49
Social media tools present risk managers with an array of high-stakes challenges and questions around the issues of worker privacy,
free speech, employee monitoring, reputational risk, libel and other potentially damaging exposures. Topics discussed include how to
structure a corporate social media policy, how to react to violations of company policy and other ways to mitigate social media risk. To also learn
how well companies are addressing the issues and details of best practices for avoiding problem, join the discussion with Alan E. Brill, senior
managing director of Kroll Ontrack Inc., and Melinda S. Riechert, partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius L.L.P.
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Supply Chain Crisis—Navigating Business Interruption Coverage and Claims After the Japanese Earthquakes
A Business Insurance Special Webinar
Cost: $49
Many businesses in North America have manufacturing operations in Japan or rely on the supply of products and parts made in Japan.
Disruptions to Japanese production as a result of March's catastrophic earthquake will have costly consequences for many global supply
chains. This special Business Insurance webinar examines what insurance coverages might respond to supply chain disruptions resulting
from the earthquake, and what steps risk managers and business should take to ensure any losses are paid quickly and in full.
Join Duncan Ellis, U.S. property practice leader at Marsh Inc., and Linda D. Kornfeld, a partner at law firm Jenner & Block L.L.P. and a member of the firm's
insurance litigation and counseling practice, for a discussion of the coverage and claims issues arising from the catastrophe in Japan. To view
this on-demand webinar, please register here.
Get Retrofit: Insurance Savings from Property Upgrades
While new buildings are constructed to meet the highest standards of safety and stability, older commercial properties can lack such protections,
making them difficult and expensive to insure. In some cases, building regulations will determine what work needs to be done. But in the absence of
codes, how does a property owner assess the hazards of an older property, whether it is recently acquired or one that is due an upgrade? To explore the insurance costs and benefits of upgrading older properties, join Janice Ochenkowski, managing director and head of global risk management at real
estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. in Chicago and Robert J. Smith Jr., global property risk consulting practice leader with Marsh Inc.
in Chicago for this free webinar. To view this on-demand webinar, please
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An Inconvenient Risk: Climate Change Liability and Coverage
Climate change is a significant emerging risks for companies, as individuals, corporations and government entities use the tort system to try to
recover damages for alleged contributions to global warming. Some legal experts predict climate change-related insurance coverage battles will
be as lengthy and hard-fought as the fights over coverage for environmental and asbestos claims.
Join William F. Stewart, partner in the National
Insurance Coverage Group of Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst L.L.C., and John G. Nevius is a partner and chair of the Environmental Law Group in
Anderson Kill & Olick P.C., as they explore these and other climate change issues. Business Insurance Senior Editor Joanne Wojcik will
moderate the webinar. To view this on-demand webinar, please
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Blueprint for Construction Defects: Managing the Risks and Coverage
Construction defect issues are not getting any simpler for contractors, risk managers and insurers. Recent litigation has policyholders and
insurers worried about the potential for liability to expand in defect cases. In addition, defect issues affect supply chains and can cause
problems on uncompleted projects. And unexpected construction defects also have begun to arise in the new wave of green construction projects.
To help you navigate through the complex issues surrounding construction defects, please join Brian Casey, senior vp, head of insurance and risk
management at Bovis Lend Lease Holdings Inc., and Michael Szot, executive vp and managing director of Aon Risk Solutions’ Construction Services Group,
for this live online webinar. Business Insurance Senior Editor Michael Bradford will moderate. To view this on-demand webinar, please
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