Carefully written and reviewed contracts can help prevent misunderstandings in business agreements strengthen partner-ships and enhance legal defensibility in the event of litigation.

Via third-party contracts many healthcare organizations outsource a wide range of clinical, technical and administrative functions.

This report will help counselors enhance their practice and minimize professional liability exposure by identifying loss patterns and trends.

This article focuses on risk recommendations regarding one of the most significant topics from the report: Boundaries. Counselors assume a position of trust and authority with theirclients frequently becoming familiar with the most intimate and sensitive aspects of their lives. These relationships

Lawyers and law firms must manage an increasing amount of data both physical and digital over a vast array of evolving devices and media. Download CNA's PROfessional Counsel guide to learn more about how to implement a Records Management Plan (RMP).

This edition of AlertBulletin® focuses on the importance of establishing a setting-specific, appropriately scaled framework for crisis decision-making before disaster strikes.

This edition of AlertBulletin is designed to help healthcare leaders communicate in a clear accurate and timely manner during a crisis.

Anchored by more than 20 years of cyber coverage expertise, our solutions are designed for companies with two or more years of operating history.

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.

Learn risk mitigating excavation procedures for underground facilities.

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?

The partnership between CNA and the Dentist’s Advantage program presents our second dental closed claim report to help dentists enhance their practice and minimize professional liability.

This edition of inBrief presents a self-assessment guide to help healthcare facilities evaluate their degree of readiness for negotiating recall situations.

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.

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 edition of AlertBulletin® reviews the practical implications of the final rule and suggests additional risk management safeguards.

Ambulatory settings are expressly designed to expedite care and their financial success depends upon maintaining a steady pace of work and high patient volume. During the COVID-19 pandemic providers at outpatient facilities may feel pressure to relax their patient discharge-related protocols.

This bulletin outlines our ergonomic direction and philosophy on dock safety and to eliminate or reduce the manual handling of materials and products to the greatest extent possible.

This guide provides information on how to mitigate risk at river terminals.

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.

Use this guide to assist in developing a program that helps enhance driver behaviors and reduce cell phone-related distractions, such as talking and texting.

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.

The following guidelines can help implement, enhance and maintain your driver selection process.

See immediate response actions for consideration for both supervisors and employees.

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.

This edition of Vantage Point® presents claim data on the frequency, severity and financial impact of injuries to elderly inpatients.

Electrical equipment is usually well designed and properly installed. However, the principal reason for electrical system breakdown is the failure to maintain the installation in its designed state.

This bulletin outlines the risks associated with electrical surge protective devices and how to help provide your facility with maximum protection against equipment damage resulting from electrical surges.

Electronic healthcare records (EHRs) have revolutionized the practice of medicine creating the potential for significant improvements in patient safety clinical teamwork and operational efficiency.

This AlertBulletin® examines risk exposures associated with electronic media use and offers general policy recommendations for the workplace environment.

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.

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.

Emergency preparedness planning should be a core component of every healthcare setting's risk management program.

As weather-related exposures increase emergency preparedness planning becomes an ever more significant aspect of the organization's overall risk management program.

Even if an employer can mandate and provide COVID-19 vaccinations, the more important question may be whether an employer should do so.

This edition of Home Care Briefing examines the basics of home healthcare risk management focusing on topics such as hiring employment policies standard of care and scope of practice considerations environmental safety and workplace violence.

This edition of Vantage Point offers various risk management suggestions for home healthcare providers, ranging from practice guidelines to hazard assessment procedures to security measures for both patients/residents and caregivers.

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.

This edition of Vantage Point® offers a range of measures to retool the hospital discharge planning process and increase awareness of post-discharge care directives.

The purpose of a hot work program is to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent a fire from non-routine work involving open flames, sparks or heat.

This version of the guide is in Spanish. The purpose of a hot work program is to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to prevent a fire from non-routine work involving open flames, sparks or heat.

CNA's Alert Bulletin discusses strategies for how organizations can transform their current rounding program into a powerful quality improvement and risk control tool.

In English - A messy work environment can be an very unsafe place for employees. Download and learn how to keep your work environment clean and organized while minimizing potential employee accidents.

In Spanish - A messy work environment can be an very unsafe place for employees. Download and learn how to keep your work environment clean and organized while minimizing potential employee accidents.

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.

This edition of In Practice...with CNA addresses social media communications and the difficulties that come with social media practices during disputes.

Attorneys who practice long enough may encounter the prospect of receiving a letter from a bar disciplinary office containing notice of a complaint from a client or third party.

Use this checklist to help develop your action plan based on the potential areas of impact to your organization.

This guide will help identify appropriate resources for cleaning, sanitizing and maintaining a safe, healthy work environment