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Transforming a culture of making sure employees understand how to use and manage their health benefits to a culture that encourages employees to maintain their health is a long-term answer to reducing healthcare costs.

This webinar looks at how employers can drive down medical costs by incentivizing their workers to eat healthier, exercise more and watch their weight.

These workplace efforts go a long way toward curbing future obesity-related chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and heart disease. Companies that target employees' personal health and institute wellness and disease prevention programs will also trim overall industry medical costs.

Speakers Tom Beauregard, executive vice president of the UnitedHealth Group Center for Health Reform & Modernization, and Dr. Thomas Parry, president of the Integrated Benefits Institute, will cover such Discussion topics as:

-- Workplace efforts that curb future obesity-related chronic conditions.

-- How companies target employees' personal health risks through in-house programs.

-- What wellness and disease prevention programs leading-edge companies use to help employees

Who should attend:

--Group health managers

-- Risk and/or benefit managers

--Short and long-term disability managers

Violence at work is one of the biggest challenges facing companies every day. The recent mass workplace shooting in Connecticut--the worst case of workplace violence this year--serves as a somber reminder of what can occur when an employee's anger or distress goes unnoticed.

Learn how company safety and security plans and other preventative actions can help create safer work environments.

Speakers Pam Rippens, Senior Vice President, Account Management and Benchmarking, Specialty Risk Services, and Daniel O'Neill, President and CEO, Applied Risk Management, will discuss this and other ways companies can minimize legal and workers' compensation risks and liabilities should an incident occur.

Who should attend:

-- Risk managers

-- Claims managers

-- Safety/security managers

-- Human resources professionals

-- Corporate legal professionals

-- Brokers

-- Underwriters

Risk and claims professionals have tried for years to understand and interpret the information at the core of their business and to use this information to identify the factors that cause its success or failure. But how do you know that the tools you are using to identify that critical data are accurate?

This webinar will provide expert knowledge on how you can get the most out of your data including learning how to display vital information in a dashboard view to instantly identify positive and negative trends as well as how to easily drill down into the data to identify specific areas of concern.

Climate change risk and insurance is a confusing place for many risk managers. Regulators rattle their swords about greenhouse gas emissions and such phrases as "carbon footprint" and "cap and trade" make headlines.

We'll outline what the true short-term risks from climate change look like and what risk managers should be keeping their eyes on in the long-term. There are new insurance products and risk management techniques being tested in this environment and we will detail some of the more effective ones.

Lindene Patton, chief climate products officer at Zurich North America, and Terry Fleming, president of the Risk & Insurance Management Society Inc.(RIMS), will provide insight from the risk manager's and the carrier's perspective.

Who should attend:

-- COOs

-- CFOs

-- Risk Managers

-- Government Affairs Liaisons

-- Brokers

-- Corporate General Counsel

Because of the well-documented hazards of talking on a mobile phone or texting while driving, many states have passed laws to ban one or both of these practices. Employers need to be sure they have the proper insurance coverage and risk management strategies to protect themselves and their employee drivers.

We will discuss the guidelines for insuring and protecting against the liabilities associated with being distracted by technology while behind the wheel on company time.

Dexter Hamilton, member and general and commercial litigator with the Cozen O'Connor law firm, and Jami McClellan, senior risk engineering consultant with Zurich Services Corp., will share their insights from a loss control and legal perspective.

Who should attend:

-- Risk managers

-- Claims managers

-- Brokers

-- Human resources professionals

-- Corporate legal professionals

-- CEOs

Sophisticated risk managers know that a good defense against property losses is a good offense. The best way to handle property claims is to not have any. To do this, they apply catastrophe modeling, loss-control engineering and mitigation strategies to identify the key loss-driving properties in their portfolio and determine ways to make them a better risk.

The results are hardened properties, better managed catastrophe exposure, and in many cases lower insurance premiums. We bring together a top engineering/modeling professional and a risk manager at a global hospitality company to explain this approach.

Donald A. Quesenberry, Director, Insurance - Americas/Global Property, Marriott International Inc. and Akshay Gupta, Director, Cat Risk Engineering Services, at AIR Worldwide Corp. will share their insights from a practitioner's and a engineering and modeling consultant's perspective.

Who should attend:

-- Risk managers

-- Claims managers

-- Brokers

-- Loss-control professionals

-- CAT modeling experts

-- Facilities management/engineering professionals

In the world of workers' comp, one class of claim bedevils workers' comp managers, claims managers and their brokers.

It is the so-called "outlier." This class of claim makes up only 6 percent or 7 percent of all workers' comp claims. Yet it generates as much as 60 percent to 70 percent of the claims payout.

Outliers are often challenging to identify as their attributes run counterintuitive to catastrophic claims. Once on the radar, the best practices for mitigating an outlier are very different from other claims.

Maureen McCarthy, Vice President, National Market-Workers' Compensation Claims, at Liberty Mutual and Mark Noonan, three-time Power Broker^TM winner, Risk & Insurance® columnist and Managing Principal of Integro Insurance Brokers, will discuss methods for outlier identification and mitigation.

Specifically, the webinar will cover:

-- Definition of an outlier and the key criteria to look for

-- Available predictive modeling and analysis tools

-- Case studies of actual outlier claims

-- Best practices for minimizing the costs associated with outliers

Who should attend:

-- Brokers

-- Risk managers

-- Workers' comp managers

-- Claims managers

-- Workers' comp consultants

The NCCI reports many ominous trends in the workers' compensation industry, including rising medical costs, increased indemnity claim costs, and lengthened time away from work.

What can workers' compensation insurers do to avoid what looks to be a perfect storm ahead? Join us for this 45-minute webinar where industry experts will give an overview of current trends in the industry and discuss the technologies and techniques that you should be implementing today to change course and ensure long-term business success, including:

-- Adopting a disability prevention model
-- Proactive disease management
-- Action planning
-- Predictive modeling
-- Incident reporting

And much more ...

Attendees to this webinar should include:

-- Workers' compensation claims professionals

Short- and long-term disability claims professionals

There are many risks for companies with individual employees or groups of managers who travel internationally, or are stationed abroad, either long or short term.

These risks change from one region to another and the exposures rise and fall due to shifting political or economic factors in different parts of the world.

While the existence of these risks to managers and workers abroad have become more well-known since 9/11, new risks continually emerge. A new generation of tools designed to protect buyers against those risks is also now available.

Currently, many workers and managers go abroad covered by a benefits plan issued domestically. That is often not enough, or the policy may not cover the risks the company thinks it covers.

Some of the questions focused on in this webinar will include:

-- What are the emerging risks that threaten workers abroad?

-- How should risk managers structure their group life, accidental death and dismemberment, disability, kidnap and ransom, war risk and terrorism, and other gap insurance coverage when managers go abroad?

-- Which countries or individuals require higher limits? Who and what is covered when it comes to third-country nationals, local nationals and expatriates.

-- How do risk managers structure a group benefits program for workers abroad?

-- When is it necessary to modify a group policy underwritten in the United States but sold through a local carrier? Who's involved in structuring such a program? A U.S.-based carrier in conjunction with the local carrier?

-- What is the role of the broker? Does an insured go through a broker, and if so a global or local broker?

-- How does a company customize a program to fit foreign risks?

Those who should attend:

-- Risk Managers

-- CFOs

-- Benefits Managers

-- HR Managers

-- Brokers

-- Consultants