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The Driver: Situational Awareness While Driving
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Situational awareness while driving is integral to ensuring that your actions and reactions can be completed in sufficient time to prevent an accident.
Find the Way Forward with a Missing Client
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Clients expect their attorneys to be available. A law firm that ignores client emails or phone calls will not be a law firm for long.
Small Business Operational Resilience Checklist
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This checklist provides actions for your organization to consider before, during and after a business disruption.
The Driver: Understanding Driver Distractions
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In 2020, almost 3,000 fatal and 205,000 nonfatal distraction-related motor vehicle accidents occurred in the United States and in some parts of Canada, surpassing those caused by impaired driving.
The Driver: Tips to Reduce Auto Accidents
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In 2020, the United States and Canada had fewer vehicles on the road, but the decrease in miles driven did not correlate to fewer accidents.
MA Appeals Court Clarifies How Irrevocable Trusts
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In Practice with CNA discusses the potential challenges Wills Trusts and Estates practitioners face when a client representation involves the existence of an irrevocable trust which may influence eligibility for Medicaid.
Trustees and Investing: Best Practices to Avoid Liability
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The responsibility of being a trustee carries with it multiple duties. This article includes a list of the most common trustee duties.
Cyber Risk Solutions
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Anchored by more than 20 years of cyber coverage expertise, our solutions are designed for companies with two or more years of operating history.
Product and Service Selection
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As you explore new options for products and services, there are things to consider to help you identify potential exposures
The Driver: Driving Under the Influence
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Regardless of the substance, driving while impaired can cause significant cognitive and functional challenges.
The Driver: Tips for Wintertime Driving
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Driving in winter presents a variety of weather-related hazards. Preparing ahead of time and being alert are critical to safety amid weather changes, poor visibility, and wet or slippery road conditions.
Low Voltage Busway Systems
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The focus of this bulletin is the discussion/identification of failure mechanisms common to busway and the periodic maintenance and testing that will either prevent or minimize the possibility of electrical faulting of electrical busway.
Automobile Negligent Entrustment Guide
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Automobile loss due to negligent entrustment can arise from employees driving company-owned vehicles their personal vehicles or other vehicles on company business.
Ergonomics for Manual Material Handling
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Strategies to help improve common workplace material handling tasks.
Healthcare Claims Capabilities
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CNA's Healthcare Claims professionals use experience from the medical and legal professions to provide superior technical expertise and outstanding customer service.
Resilience Checklist for Civil Unrest
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Considerations and resources to support your business resilience before during and after periods of civil unrest.
Contractual Risks: Understanding Indemnification and Subrogation
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Via third-party contracts many healthcare organizations outsource a wide range of clinical, technical and administrative functions.
Hygiene Controls in the Workplace
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This guide will help identify appropriate resources for cleaning, sanitizing and maintaining a safe, healthy work environment
Epack 3 - Fiduciary Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 (EP3) Fiduciary Liability insurance is designed to address exposures arising from the administration and management of employee benefit and retirement plans.
Spyware Schemes & Sticky Fingers: Reacting to Client Misconduct
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A client's past misdeeds are rarely a dealbreaker for a prospective attorney-client relationship. Every day lawyers help clients address the consequences of illegal conduct and analyze the legal aspects of questionable conduct.
Hired and Non-Owned Auto Exposures
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An employee using their personal vehicle or hired (rental) vehicle to conduct business activities for their employer under the approval and/or knowledge of the employer constitutes H/NOA exposure.
Water Heater Maintenance and Service Guide
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While an absence of hot water may not be a life-or-death risk, heater explosions can be catastrophic. If gas leaks in or around your water heater, the small ignition flame can ignite the gas.
Elements of a Products Liability Risk Control Program
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When a business uses a new material supplier, production process, or design, or expands its customer base or product line, a formal Products Liability Risk Control Program can help mitigate unexpected risks and exposures.
Aging Services Claims Report 2016
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CNA's ninth in a series of aging services claim reports reveals that a focus on a compassionate resident-centric culture as a key characteristic of high-performing organizations. Learn more about the major risks and stories from the field from the 2016 Aging Services Claim Study.
Protecting Workers Against Wildfire Smoke
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Wildfire smoke is a mixture of gases and fine particles from burning trees and other plant material that can be dangerous if inhaled. Smoke can irritate your eyes and respiratory system and worsen chronic heart and lung diseases.
Violence Prevention in a Home Healthcare
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This edition of Home Care Briefing reviews violence prevention in the home healthcare setting as well as risk management recommendations to mitigate risks.
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.
Epack 3 - Employment Practices Liability
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CNA’s Epack 3 Employment Practices Liability (EPL) insurance coverage helps shield businesses, business owners and employees against loss from claims alleging wrongful employment practices.
CNA CyberPrep Brochure
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CNA CyberPrep is available to all CNA cyber policyholders, providing them with a network of cybersecurity professionals and services to actively identify, mitigate and respond to their cyber risks.
Law Firm Data Breaches: A Legal Snapshot
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Countless firms have suffered data breaches; beyond initial headlines early settlements and sealed records have left a paucity of case law governing post-breach liability. Many attorneys are left to wonder about the aftermath of data breach and potential exposure in an area evolving and unsettled.
Practicing Law Without A Law Degree Is Now Permissible In WA
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Non-lawyers are now permitted to practice family law in Washington State as a result of a rule change approved by the Washington Supreme Court in 2012.
Sprinkler System Freeze-Up Prevention
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Cold weather brings the danger of impaired fire protection because of water freezing in sprinkler piping, underground mains, gravity suction tanks or fire pumps.
Contracts: Practices and Provisions to Manage Liability Risks
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Carefully written and reviewed contracts can help prevent misunderstandings in business agreements strengthen partner-ships and enhance legal defensibility in the event of litigation.
Healthcare Capabilities Brochure
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The Healthcare Capabilities Brochure provides an overview of CNA's tailored coverages for aging services, allied healthcare facilities, physicians and more.
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?
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.
This edition of Professional Counsel addresses where nontraditional legal malpractice exposures exist so attorneys may take steps to avoid the unexpected exposures.
Record Retention Policies: Evaluating Compliance Mitigating Risk
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This issue of InBrief explores record retention policies. Formal record retention policies and procedures demonstrate a systematic and organized approach to information storage. In addition they can help enhance compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Driver Performance Solutions
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Driver behavior affects your commercial auto fleet's performance and your bottom line every trip every day. However not every business gives this critical safety topic the attention it deserves and that can lead to costly liability claims.
How Allied Vendors Help Streamline Firm Operations
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This edition of Professional Counsel addresses CNA's Lawyers Allied Vendor Program which offers solutions to help law firms navigate some of the challenges of managing a law firm as both a client service and a business.
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.
Smartphones and Social Media: Tips on Preventing Staff Misuse
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This edition of Alertbulletin® examines three major types of liability - privacy breaches, unauthorized social media posting and data spoliation claims - that may arise from unapproved technology use in the residential care setting.
Stemming the Tide of Incivility in the Practice of Law
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This edition of Professional Counsel(r) addresses incivility and what lawyers can do to minimize the uncivil behavior that has become all too pervasive.
Wire Transfer Fraud: A Growing Threat to Law Firms
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Lawyers in any area of practice may fall victim to wire transfer fraud and must often serve as their own risk managers in managing their professional practices.
How You Can Stay Ethical and Help Clients Communicate Effectively on Social Media During Disputes
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This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses social media communications and the difficulties that come with social media practices during disputes.
Serving on Boards: Blurred Lines May Blind Lawyers to the Risks
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Lawyers contemplating board service must weigh the potential benefits against the risks inherent in such appointments prior to acceptance and throughout the tenure of any board service.
The Threat From Within: Theft and Fraud Inside Law Firms
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Law firms should take a proactive approach to protect themselves from the risk of theft and fraud by their own attorneys managers or support staff members. Download to learn more about how to prevent the threat of theft and fraud from within.
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.
In this Professional Counsel®, CNA has developed this guide to assist attorneys in creating documents that will enable them to better manage their interactions with potential and actual clients.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Five Strategies to Achieve Integration
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This edition of Vantage Point® offers five basic strategies to prevent and mitigate common hazards on the road to organizational consolidation.