At Rochester Regional Health, the workers’ comp and safety team champion employee engagement and positive reinforcement.

The Valley Health System shifted its philosophy on workers’ compensation, putting employee and patient safety at the forefront.

Related or “batch” claims, particularly in health care, are a complex exposure issue with the potential to keep growing.

Workers’ comp insurers want to know if marijuana can effect better outcomes than opioids.

Hear from risk and safety executives who reduced their claim frequency with the help of improved analytics.

Contingent business interruption claims from Hurricane Irma could take years to resolve.

This senior risk manager values his role in helping Varian Medical Systems support research and technologies in the fight against cancer.

For all of today’s great medical achievements, the best we can offer around the world is mediocre medical care.

Medical malpractice and errors happen — with devastating results.

After witnessing the aftermath of medical error firsthand, Jeff Driver dedicated himself to reducing risk and promoting prevention in health care.

Digital health care is on the rise, and so are the risks associated with it.

A hospital fired an injured nurse. Now it faces a disability discrimination complaint.

The level of mystery shrouding health care legislation isn’t instilling confidence within the workers’ comp industry.

When some go uninsured, there is inevitably an additional cost to those who purchase insurance.

Ease of access and limitations on usage make this game-changing health care delivery method a popular choice for patients and a palatable risk for underwriters.

The “rewards” of digital medicine will not come without risk.

Long-Term Risk Management For 30 years, Arthur J. Gallagher’s Martha Acker mitigated risk and helped insure the long-term care market. Last year, Acker further fortified the industry when she established a risk purchasing group (RPG) program for the property and liability environmental exposures of long-term care. Long-term care has an inherent risk for environmental claims… View Article

Anticipating Client Needs When Japanese pharma company Astellas moved its clinical trial cover to a new carrier, an Astellas executive in the Netherlands objected. They didn’t appreciate the new carrier’s failure to provide a summary of the policy exclusions for countries where a broker is not used and the option for long-tail certificates of insurance…. View Article

A look at the latest decisions impacting the industry.

Palo Alto-based The Risk Authority Stanford is incubating risk management solutions using design thinking; that means elevating end users into key roles in addressing health care risk exposures.