How to minimize your exposure when employees use their own vehicles Does your business (or your insurance client’s business) rely on employees using their own vehicles for work? If so, you may have automobile loss exposures for which you’re unaware, putting your business’s assets at risk. Whether employee-owned vehicles are used daily or sporadically, your […]

Insurers are using these simple but powerful innovations in a new way to lower claims times and costs   By Dhara Patel, president of ACM. This article originally ran in PropertyCasualty360 and is reposted here with permission. Sometimes a simple, mature technology can reap big rewards. A case in point is property-casualty claims management, where insurers […]

How faster workers’ compensation claim reporting can reduce costs It pays to report work comp claims promptly. Conversely, the longer your insurance client waits to report a work injury, the more expensive that injury is likely to be. American Claims Management found that when a workers’ compensation claim was reported more than 10 days after […]

ACM chosen by Prime Healthcare to handle national claims American Claims Management has been selected by Prime Healthcare to handle national management for worker’s compensation claims on behalf of their system of 45 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations in 14 states. Related: Federated Rural Electric Insurance Taps ACM to handle national claims Prime […]

Forecast and evaluate business risk exposures to manage future loss When evaluating potential losses to identify and reduce business risk exposures, name your biggest nightmare. What’s the worst that could happen in your business or organization? A fire, a lawsuit, death of a key executive, employee theft, reputation failure…. All these and more can cause […]

Offer the safety of contact tracing to your clients whose employees are returning to work   Many articles have been written on return-to-work safety, but most focus on how to keep the worksite sanitized. One of our sister companies, AmeriSys, is offering contact tracing for the workplace, to protect returning employees’ health and protect your […]

Calling employees back to work? Consider these steps As a broker or insurance company, no doubt you have clients whose employees are finally returning to the workplace. If you’re a self-insured business, you’ve probably weighed the pros and cons, and may be calling employees back to the worksite on a limited basis. With this in […]

Take steps to minimize restaurant risks As restaurant owners, your clients are well aware of the risks that they face daily. That’s why they have restaurant insurance to help cover those risks, should the worst happen: a kitchen knife slip. A customer slip-and-fall in the bathroom. A broken tooth from something that shouldn’t have been […]

Top insurable risks to business growth and how to manage them Risks to business growth are similar, regardless of the size of your insurance client’s business (or your own business, if you’re self-insured), whether there’s six or 6,000 employees. Growing a business typically means adding more employees, more equipment and inventory, a larger location…all of […]

Amidst COVID-19: Is your business continuity plan active?   Your business has weathered multiple storms: Vendors who didn’t deliver. Employee mistakes that cost the company. Perhaps even a claim or two. But do you have a business continuity plan to help weather true storms, the kind caused by Mother Nature or a simple coronavirus? No […]