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Making Your Healthcare Organization More Insurable: Medical Professional Liability Claim Trends and Risk Mitigation Strategies

Parker, Smith & Feek’s recent webinar, “How to Make Your Healthcare Organization More Insurable,” featured valuable insights from account executives and healthcare risk management experts Noel Murata and Danielle Donovan. Murata and Donovan shed light on how today’s hard market conditions are impacting medical professional liability claim trends and how insurance carriers are responding.

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Markets in Focus :: Construction

Our Construction Group gathers to analyze construction economic data, weaving together insights that could influence risk and insurance strategies for construction firms.

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Risk in Focus :: Education Q1 2024

Risk in Focus is an overview to show recent risks in the workplace, on the jobsite and throughout the world.

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Markets in Focus :: Real Estate

The real estate industry has experienced turbulent swings in recent years. Market dynamics, including fluctuations in property values, poor economic conditions, and rising interest rates, have negatively impacted real estate clients.

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2024 Compliance Outlook in Oregon

The Oregon legislature was very busy last year adding consumer protections to insured benefits. In addition, the taxable wage cap for Paid Leave Oregon has increased. The contribution rate is not changing, but the taxable wage amount is going up.

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Gender Nondiscrimination Considerations

Coverage for gender-related treatment and services is an evolving issue. Over the past decade, however, legislation, regulations, and court decisions all suggest that failure to provide equal access to coverage based on gender or sexual orientation may violate various nondiscrimination laws.

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Markets in Focus :: Life Sciences Q4 2023

In the wake of the pandemic, life sciences companies were challenged to pivot to adopt new technologies and rethink existing operating models to sustain growth and deliver innovation at speeds unseen in the industry.

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Markets in Focus :: General Q4 2023

The global business landscape has undergone significant transformations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply chain disruptions, a direct consequence of the pandemic, have fueled a rapid two-year surge in U.S. inflation. This surge, in turn, has elevated input costs for goods production and heightened public expectations of future price increases.

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Markets in Focus :: Technology Q4 2023

Defined as applying scientific knowledge for practical purposes, technology has many terms, definitions, and use cases. Technology touches every commercial industry vertical and includes hardware and software solutions for public use, including information technology, robotics, the Internet of Things, communication, health technology, machine learning, electronics, and automation.

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Markets in Focus :: Digital Risk Q4 2023

The Digital Risk industry, which includes blockchain, web3, DeFi, and digital assets, experienced another volatile year in 2023. Notable players in the space, such as FTX and Silvergate Bank, suffered headline-grabbing collapses and brought the digital asset marketplace down with them.

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Navigating the PFAS Crisis: Health Concerns, Legal Battles, and Risk Mitigation Strategies

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has linked per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to a range of health issues. These widely used chemicals have been integrated into commercial and consumer products for their valuable properties for decades…

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Markets in Focus :: K-12 Education Q4 2023

In the September outlook on education, law firm Fisher Phillips identified the impact of the SCOTUS ruling on Affirmative Action, Artificial Intelligence, Immigration Compliance, and changes to Title IX among the most compelling issues affecting educational institutions as they kicked off another academic year.1 Add this to continued challenges around enrollment, talent recruitment, data security, […]

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