National Safety Stand-Down Week: Protect your workplace from fall hazards     Every year over 300 people die in ladder-related accidents, and more than 10,000 suffer serious injuries. They are the top cause of construction fatalities and account for one-third of on-the-job injury deaths in the industry. Whether your insured (or your company, if you’re […]

Last week we discussed two of ACM’s 2022 workers’ compensation claims initiatives, Rebound and RapidResponse, that not only significantly help resolve claims more quickly, lowering payouts and reducing litigation costs for employers and insurers. Even more important, they provide injured employees the latest in quality medical care and returning them to gainful employment. Today we’ll […]

Four of ACM’s 2022 workers’ compensation claims initiatives will significantly help resolve claims more quickly, providing injured employees the latest in quality medical care and returning them to gainful employment. At the same time, they will help in  lowering payouts and reducing litigation costs for employers and insurers. These four include Rebound (return-to-work), RapidResponse, Head […]

Scheduling a regular retail safety audit can help lower liability With your retail insureds, safety may not be a top concern as are inventory control, employees and bookkeeping. But all it takes is one customer with eyes on their phone tripping at the store’s entrance, a child who runs and falls, a spilled drink, an […]

The Big Chill’s not over: How to protect and winterize your vehicle fleet Winter has settled in to stay for another month or so. It’s crucial to winterize your vehicle fleet if you skipped it last fall. More than 116,000 Americans are injured and over 1,300 are killed on snowy, slushy or icy pavement every […]

ACM has built a new digital tool to significantly increase the identification of subrogation opportunities. The subrogation tool is a user-friendly platform fits into the claims team’s daily workflow in an efficient, focused way, ensuring that it will make a real impact. “In the claims industry, subrogation is one of the areas that has the […]

It’s a new year and a fresh start. A great way to stay on the track for success in the new year is to make sure you have a natural disaster emergency response plan in place for your business. While maybe not the most exciting New Year’s resolution, it is important for management to spend […]

Prevent Costly Winter Freeze-Ups in Your Building Pipes As temperatures drop and winter sets in, the risk of freeze-ups in building pipes becomes a real threat. Whether it’s automatic sprinkler system pipes for fire protection, steam condensate returns or domestic plumbing, insufficient building heat can burst pipes and cause water damage to the building and […]

Employee dishonesty is more prevalent than we’d like to admit. Let’s face it: No one wants to think that one of their hand-picked employees may be stealing from them or cheating them. Yet it happens more often than we’d think. Keep reading to learn how to spot red flags with these steps to prevent business […]

This article was written by ACM President Dhara Patel and appeared in the Sept. – Oct. 2021 issue of Claims Magazine. There’s a saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” In our line of work, it sometimes takes an emergency to trigger innovation. The pandemic taught us that claims departments have repeatable processes […]