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Medical Error Prevention: Reinvigorating Patient Safety Measures
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This edition of Vantage Point® addresses several central questions to help the reader understand why medical and clinical errors persist.
Making Time to Retire: Best Practices for Succession Planning and A Smooth Transition
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses key points to keep in mind when planning for your retirement from the field of law.
This edition of AlertBulletin® focuses on the importance of establishing a setting-specific, appropriately scaled framework for crisis decision-making before disaster strikes.
Physicians Allied Healthcare Facilities Sell Sheet
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Our understanding of healthcare, terminology and practices – and our expertise in litigating these claims – helps us work with policyholders to develop effective strategies for resolving claims.
CNA Affinity Programs Brochure
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We specialize in providing insurance solutions for trade and industry associations, franchises, buying groups and individual businesses homogeneous in nature.
Risk Control Services for Healthcare Organizations and Providers
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CNA's dedicated Healthcare Risk Control team understands the challenges faced in the healthcare industry. Learn more about the Healthcare solutions CNA provides.
This edition of In Practice...with CNA examines the best practices for assisting a client who receives a Legal Hold Notice or preservation letter.
Cybersecurity: Protect Patients by Preventing Data Breaches
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This inBrief explains how every healthcare facility must be vigilant in guarding against data breaches and system infiltrations, which can endanger both patient confidentiality and safety.
Recognizing and Managing Your Organization's Shipping Risks
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It is recommended that due diligence be exercised when identifying and selecting third-party transport carriers to hire.
Docking Inland River Barges at Terminals
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This guide provides information on how to mitigate risk at river terminals.
Multi-passenger Vehicles: A Brief Guide to Fleet Safety
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This edition of AlertBulletin lists basic risk control strategies, describes common driver-related risk factors that contribute to accidents and suggests specific countermeasures.
Risk Control Global Solutions
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Working closely with agents and policyholders, CNA’s Risk Control team helps identify exposures and provide solutions to mitigate loss.
This month's InBrief® is designed to help owners of medispas and aesthetic practices, as well as associated providers, address major risk factors and consistently deliver safe, high-quality care.
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.
This resource outlines the importance of compliance and safety efforts focused on federal requirements as of the date of this guide’s publication.
Lawyers' Duties Regarding Legal Files After a Client's Death
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Courts uniformly have held that the attorney-client privilege survives the death of a client. Complex issues arise regarding the lawyer's duties to her former client when the personal representative seeks files that are unrelated to the administration of the estate.
Medical Malpractice: A Brief Guide to the Litigation Process
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This AlertBulletin® explores the lifespan of legal proceedings, from complaint to deposition of trial. It offers insight on topics like mutual expectations of insurance companies and insureds, and tips on giving depositions and testifying at trial.
Physical Therapy Spotlight: Protecting Your License
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This Physical Therapy Spotlight focuses on our analysis and risk recommendations on Analysis of License Protection Matters with Defense expense Payment.
Scope of Practice Changes: Ten Keys to Safer Delegation
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This edition of Vantage Point provides a decision-making framework, organized around 10 questions, to help administrators, healthcare providers or practice leaders identify and address risks associated with SOP and delegation standards.
Client Intake and Proper Client Selection
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Client intake should never be dismissed as an unimportant but necessary task when taking on a new client. Creating a thorough client intake process is essential in order to establish a strong foundation for an attorney-client relationship whether the relationship lasts for weeks or years.
Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.
Resident Falls: A Collaborative Strategy for Risk Mitigation
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A summary of common fall-related allegations and preventive measures. An effective fall- and fracture-reduction program can help curb the rise in claim severity.
Provider Burnout: A Root Cause Approach to Reducing Stress
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Clinical burnout is a work-related syndrome experienced by an increasing number of physicians nurses physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Pressure Injuries: Sound Documentation Is Key to Defensibility
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This edition of Carefully Speaking® focuses on documentation of three vital elements of care: resident assessment/examination, care/service planning and team communication.
Serious Adverse Events: Creating a Sound Crisis Response Plan
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This edition of AlertBulletin(r) focuses on the essential elements of serious adverse event crisis management.
Subcontractor Prequalification Guide
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When developing a prequalification form or application the hiring contractor should consider the following.
Telemedicine Update: Coordinating Remote and In-person Care
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This edition of Vantage Point® discusses how telemedicine misuse can be mitigated by implementing policies to address the risks posed by remote care, as well as modifying their procedures to better coordinate virtual and in-person modes of care.
This edition of Carefully Speaking® offers recommendations that are intended to help aging services organizations evaluate and upgrade their degree pf security preparedness.
Urgent Care: Five Essential Strategies to Minimize Common Risks
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This issue of inBrief® reviews the customary scope of urgent care services and offers risk management strategies designed to prevent or mitigate clinical lapses that may result in patient injury and consequent litigation.