Public Sector Risk

Becoming more involved with and helping manage lawsuits would benefit both the professional standing of risk managersand their companies, according to industry experts.

In addition to the company profiles featured in the Aug. 22/29 issue of National Underwriter, the risk managers from these award-winning companies participated in a roundtable discussion at the Workers Compensation Educational Conference in Orlando. Heres what they had to say.

Jack McCalmon, president of The McCalmon Group Inc. in Tulsa, Okla. and partner at Titus Hillis Law Firm in Tulsa, advises risk managers to get involved early and often with their companys litigationand to lobby for settlements as the best cost-control strategy.

Cincinnati Insurance Companies and Selective Insurance Group collectively report close to $200 million in catastrophe losses for the third quarter of this year, a significant portion of which was cause by Hurricane Irene.

Hurricane Jova bore down on Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, threatening to hit one of the country's busiest cargo ports and tourist resorts with destructive waves, heavy rainfall and flooding

West Virginian deer continue to find the front grills of vehiclesmore than in any other statebut State Farm says the overall number of these unfortunate encounters in the United States has fallen.