This comprehensive report discusses organizational pandemic preparedness and response as well as business continuity management, provides background information on the H1N1 virus and human influenza pandemics, highlights the international implications of a pandemic and outlines some of the potential insurance coverage issues related to pandemics.
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Nobody wants to worry about health security, but the reality is that prudent individuals who have the means and capability of risk assessment and management in other areas of their lives cannot assume that they are invincible or that either the government or the medical system will be adequate to fill in for a lack of health risk management.
Identity theft is a risk that grows and changes daily. Keeping up to date with the latest prevention methods is the surest way to protect oneself from the many forms that identity theft can take, including medical, credit and financial theft. This helpful checklist offers suggestions for minimizing the risk of identity theft as well as steps to take if such theft should occur.
An informed discussion of the issue can help a family see that between the two extremes of attitude toward kidnapping (avoiding the danger by staying at home or regarding it as an uncontrollable cost of doing business or traveling) there are a number of steps that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of a kidnapping.
While college students may act like teens, they legally are adults – a distinction parents may overlook as they send their children off to school. Parents are wise to plan for legal issues that may arise by establishing a durable power of attorney, a healthcare proxy, a will and trust instruments as well as waivers with the college to acquire access to grades and other now private information.
While it is impossible to predict the timing or consequences of an influenza pandemic, there is little doubt among world health authorities that a significant pandemic will occur. Consequently, businesses that will survive must have a plan in place to mitigate the health, social, operational and economic impacts. This guide is intended to assist businesses in either preparing or reviewing such a plan.
Creating a risk culture for your family is probably one of the most important endeavors for preserving family legacy and ensuring long-term wealth sustainability. This 2009 FOX Fall Forum session focuses on the importance of positive, calculated risk-taking within the family and review strategies that promote the family’s ability to evaluate and capture opportunities. Participants will be asked to share their own risk-taking experiences and the lessons they learned.
Believing the asset management industry is undergoing a major transition that will amplify the complexity of market dynamics for the foreseeable future, Tuttle Asset Management espouses a dynamically adaptive system that increases the probability of success by identifying the market's inflection points within the context of a long-term technical view.
Even with the safeguards afforded by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, there still are certain circumstances under which medical privacy is not protected. A new paper from Health Champion notes these areas of vulnerability and offers advice for keeping personal medical information as secure as possible.
Have we felt the impact of the economic crisis on the professional liability market? In this 2009 Financial Executives Forum, hear from Jim Kane, President, HUB Personal Insurance, and Tom Handler, Partner of Handler Thayer, LLP on trends, errors and omissions in professional liability coverage for directors, officers and trustees.