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After the COVID Crisis: Restoring Safety, Morale and Trust
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The COVID-19 pandemic, the worst infectious disease outbreak in a century, has been an especially traumatic event for aging services organizations. The crisis seems to be receding, but its psychological effects linger.
Inside the lines: Scope Limitations and Legal Ghostwriting
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As financial pressure from the Great Recession becomes the new normal and even the least tech-savvy Americans tackle most errands from behind a computer screen consumers have cast a critical eye towards the traditional attorney-client relationship.
Declining Representation with Prospective Clients
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What can a lawyer do to politely yet firmly place the potential client on notice that no attorney-client relationship has been established yet at the same time not discourage future opportunities for representation?
Risk Transfer Mechanisms for Contractors
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Risk Control Bulletin : Many firms frequently contract with other firms to provide services or perform some type of construction work. In the event of an accident risk transfer mechanisms can prove invaluable. Download to learn more.
Elements of an Effective Screen When Onboarding
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How can your firm implement an effective conflicts of interest screen and have some comfort in its effectiveness if and when the time comes to defend against disqualification motion.
A pre-admission screen should be part of the admission process for every prospective resident.
Pediatric Acute Care: A Systematic Approach to Error Reduction
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers strategies to help pediatricians hospitalists nurses and other healthcare providers and administrators identify major sources of harm prevent common pediatric safety lapses and recognize critical situations.
The Remote-Ready Law Firm: Managing Long Distance Relationships
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The benefits of creating a remote-capable business are well worth the investment enabling a firm to maximize productivity when traveling attract top-level talent and maintain functionality during a crisis.
Resident Selection: Screening Optimizes Placement Minimize Risk
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Comprehensive screening of residents assists in proper placement and creates a safe pleasant environment. An individual's strengths limitations social preferences and physical and mental status are factors to consider. Download to learn the processes for optimizing placement and minimizing risk.
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.
SPAC Clients Pose Unique Risks for Law Firms
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In this edition of Vantage Point : In this article we explain what SPACs are and why representing their sponsors may pose risks for law firms and lawyers.
Fleet Safety: A Programmatic Approach to Reducing Driving Risk
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This edition of AlertBulletin examines the issue of fleet safety describing the extent and cost of vehicle-related exposures and suggesting strategies to address major risk factors.
AlertBulletin: Antibiotic Overuse Stewardship Program
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This AlertBulletin offers strategies designed to prevent antibiotic overuse training and a formal program to reduce risk.
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.
Ethical Pitfalls in Non-Traditional Attorney Roles
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In today's market more attorneys are looking beyond traditional legal counsel assignments and taking on rolls as mediators and arbitrators. Download our guide to learn more about vital risk control techniques to effectively manage the risks of accepting these appointments
Giving Business Advice Versus Legal Advice - The Pitfalls
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A lawyer's role and duty is to give advice - advice that might not be well received advice that when followed might not result in the best outcome advice that even when objectively correct ends up placing the lawyer in a defensive posture.
CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.
Staff Absenteeism
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews the importance of seamless transitions during staff absences and timely coverage arrangements.
Driver Selection Guide
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The following guidelines can help implement, enhance and maintain your driver selection process.
Second Chances Abound: Opportunities for Correcting Certain Omissions and Mistakes in Tax Elections
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses tax laws and regulations and risk Management tips to avoid election deadlines or managing filing errors.
EHR System Outages: Minimizing the Impact of Downtime
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This edition of AlertBulletin is intended to help aging services settings protect residents and mitigate potential losses during an EHR outage by utilizing readiness and response strategies.
Reopening the Workplace: Employment Law Considerations
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While employers must consider safety and health issues as they create policies and protocols to enable workers to return to the physical workplace, they must also be mindful to avoid the many employment law pitfalls that exist
Homeless Patients: Meeting the Needs of a Vulnerable Population
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According to a recent estimate about 600000 Americans are homeless on a nightly basis. This population suffers from a variety of disadvantages both medical and social. The unhoused are more susceptible than others to chronic disease mental illness and substance abuse.
Diagnostic Error: Common Causes, Effective Countermeasures
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To help facilities and providers prevent incidents related to diagnostic inaccuracies and minimize consequent Liability, this issue of inBrief examines common sources of error and presents strategies designed to enhance diagnostic accuracy.
Social Engineering Fraud Guide
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Although the pandemic has stopped many things, it has not stopped cybercriminals from exploiting the situation.
Resident Documentation: Creating a More Useful Record of Care
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This edition of CareFully Speaking focuses on those aspects of resident care/service most vulnerable to documentation deficiencies, ranging from placement determination and risk assessment to medication therapy and changes in condition.
For Your Eyes Only: Securing Lawyer-Client Communications
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While acceptable response times were once measured in days modern communication channels have clients counting the hours or even minutes since they sent their email or text. File sharing also has accelerated with clients able to review revise and approve documents instantly.
Emergency Preparedness: Crafting a Sound Disaster Response Plan
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As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.
This edition of In Practice... with CNA® discusses how dabbling in new areas of law can help expand your practice, but also increase risk for disciplinary and legal malpractice complaints if not prepared.
CERTA - NRCA Certified Roofing Torch Applicator Program
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Since the implementation of the CERTA Program, CNA has helped roofing contractors save over $12 million in potential incurred claims.
Documentation Deficiencies: Better Records Mean Stronger Defense
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Sound documentation is an essential risk Management tool for aging services organizations enhancing both quality of care and legal defensibility. The healthcare information record serves first and foremost as the foundation for communication among providers and caregivers over time.
Practicing Law in the Age of Social Media
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The influence of social media on legal practice client relationships and the boundaries between Professional and personal activities must be scrupulously navigated.
Environmental Safety: Enhancing Hygiene Minimizing Hazards
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Maintaining a clean safe and healthful environment is one of the major challenges facing all aging services settings. This fact has become even more clear in the wake of the coronavirus crisis which has had a disproportionate impact upon senior communities and the elderly in general.
This edition of CareFully Speaking® examines the two major components of the IMPACT Act: clinical assessment data collection parameters and standardized quality and resource use reporting measures.
Resolving Disputes Regarding the Client File
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Implementing and enforcing a file retention and destruction policy helps law firms safeguard client confidences and organize information to permit effective representation. Learn more about how to properly maintain client files to avoid disputes.
CNA Launches Epack 3
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CNA today launched Epack 3, its next generation modular management liability policy that combines clear, concise and easy-to-read language with a flexible policy structure. It is designed to be customized for a wide range of businesses and non-profit organizations.
CNA Enhances Multinational Capabilities with CNA ComPass
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Global businesses of all sizes are growing at an incredible pace.
CNA Appoints Steve Goldman to Senior Vice President
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CHICAGO, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNA today announced the appointment of Steve Goldman to Senior Vice President, Financial Lines and Healthcare. In this role, Steve will guide the strategic and operational plans across these product lines.
CNA Introduces CNA CyberPrep, a Holistic Cyber Threat Program
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CNA Introduces CNA CyberPrep, a Holistic Cyber Threat Program
CNA Announces 2nd Quarter 2020 Net Catastrophe Loss Estimates
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CNA Financial Corporation today announced that it expects to report net catastrophe losses in the second quarter of 2020.
CNA's Agent Portal Now Offers Quick Quotes for Workers’ Comp
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CNA today announced it has streamlined the process for agents to receive a quick Workers’ Compensation quote for their small business clients when quoting a CNA Connect policy on CNA Central, the company’s quoting and agent portal.
CNA Hardy’s 2019 Global Risk & Confidence Survey published today finds that as global, interconnected risk becomes a reality, reputational risk is rising and business confidence is on the slide.
Every business faces its own set of risks. That's why our Management Liability insurance addresses a wide range of exposures to provide flexible coverages and tailored solutions.
We offer Management & Professional Liability insurance solutions tailored to the unique exposures of private companies and not-for-profit organizations.