Commercial Lines

Employers and their claims administrators must aggressively assert and maintain their medical control over any new claim reported under their Medical Provider Network.

Data can offer a clear picture of actual provider performance. Evaluating physician and other provider performance is a matter of scrutinizing the data using industry research to learn what to look for. In fact, leveraging published industry research is the way to skip the laborious and expensive regression analyses and other predictive modeling methods.

On July 26, 2012, a federal judge in Las Vegas ordered Prospect Airport Services, Inc., a provider of wheelchair assistance services to airline passengers, to implement extensive measures to prevent future sexual harassment.

The consequences of theft and lack of security in the construction workplace is not always understood. Several states have contractor-based trade associations who partner with law enforcement and monitor, participate and assist contractors in protecting your assets.

One vehicle to objectively identify work-related injuries is the Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment Soft Tissue Management baseline program.

Your ability to retain control over the medical treatment of your injured employee is a given unless you do not follow the rules regarding the treatment of an injured employee. It is in the initial stages of the claim that you are most vulnerable and subject to having your control taken away.

Aggressive captive providers have proliferated recently who are ignoring common sense risk management and taxation issues to the potential peril of their clients. And they hide behind actuarial opinions and regulatory acceptance arguing that their plans and pricing are perfectly acceptable.

Until recently, Construction Financial Managers outside the homebuilding sector may not have heard of or thought much about construction defects. However, these defects are now an industry-wide issue.