Editor's Note: The 68th annual Workers' Compensation Educational Conference (WCEC) will be held Aug. 18-21 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. Presented by the Workers' Compensation Institute, the WCEC is the largest gathering of its kind in the nation and offers discipline-specific programs and break-out sessions from hundreds of national speakers, as well as CEU opportunities. During the conference on Aug. 19, NU Executive Managing Editor Shawn Moynihan will present the PC360/NU Awards for Excellence in Workers' Comp Risk Management.
One of the Workers' Compensation Educational Conference's longest-running programs on national issues is titled "National Trends in Workers' Compensation," a two-day program of assembled experts from all over the country discussing issues of significant importance to the industry. "National Trends" takes place on Aug. 19 and 20.
The first presentation, on Monday, is a cutting-edge discussion on "Emerging Exposures" in which the participants discuss "newer" kinds of accidents and exposures that are beginning to creep into the workplace. Just when we think we have a handle on the risks in Workers' Comp, new exposures bring new challenges. How do you price these out? How do you take a proactive approach to these exposures? To address those questions and more, the Workers' Compensation Institute has assembled a group of thinkers who can offer insights from an insurance company standpoint, a TPA standpoint and a large national employer standpoint. The panel is moderated by Jim Ryan from Sedgwick and the panelists are Monica Lichenstein from Aramark and John Santulli from PMA.
While many talking about metrics in 2013, not everyone understands what it all means. We know that metrics and data analysis are critical, but many of us don't possess the background to fully understand it or to ask the proper questions. The WCI seeks to bridge this gap by presenting a session called "Savings Isn't Everything: What is Your Data Really Telling You About Quality?" Most importantly, this group of data experts will provide tips on crunching numbers for non-data professionals. This panel fatures Moderator Jennifer Hermann, the director of data analytics from MedRisk, Jerry Poole from Acrometis, Jeffrey White from Accident Fund Holdings and Great White Software and George Furlong from Sedgwick.
Aug. 20 features one of the conference's star programs, an audience favorite for several years running. Bob Hartwig from the Insurance Information Institute and Jeff Eddinger from NCCI, led by moderator Joan Collier, will provide a "by the numbers" talk about the state and health of our industry. Much has happened in the world of Workers' Comp in the past year, and Eddinger and Hartwig will serve as the ideal tag-team duo to bring panel attendees up to speed.
The final "National Trends" presentation on Tuesday is a discussion of real-world tragic events titled "The Emergence of Extreme Violence in the Workplace." In order to discuss this sensitive and important issue, Jennifer Tomlin from Zurich will moderate a panel comprised of Susan Gordon and Chris Calloway (both from Zurich, talking about violence in the workplace from an underwriting and a claims standpoint) and Scott Clark, risk manager for the Miami-Dade County School Board, who will talk about his plan on how to deal with violence in the school system.
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