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KPD Headlines, April 2009
In This Issue of KPD Headlines
- From the President, "KPD and Jones Kendall Sauer Join Forces!"
- Liability Coverage After the Business closes
- Why is Copper being stolen?
- Will Market-Based Healthcare Survive the Tsunami?
- KPD Risk Solutions
From The President, "KPD and Jones Kendall Sauer Join Forces!"
By: Jim Ginger
Jones
Kendall Sauer, a major Portland based insurance agency, merged into our
KPD Portland office at the first of the year. We are
excited about the increased presence this gives KPD in the Portland
market, and the outstanding customers and people we gain as the result of
the merger... To
read the entire article, click here
By: Debbie Flores, AAI, AU, CPIW, CIC - Property & Casualty
Are you considering retirement, liquidation or closing your business? Are you down sizing, selling equipment or changing the direction of your business entirely? Contact your insurance professional before you continue... To read the entire article, click hereWhy is Copper being stolen?
By: Anne
Martin, Claims
Will Market Based Healthcare Survive the Tsunami?
By: Linda Martin, Employee Benefits
In January, KPD sponsored a seminar on Health Care Reform with keynote speakers Ken Provencher, President and CEO of PacificSource Health Plans and Jack Friedman, CEO of Providence Health Plans.
Mr. Friedman spoke on the rising cost of health care, provider Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement reductions and the cost shifting for these unpaid/underpaid services to employer paid commercial plans. He suggests that health care might be the next bubble to burst, questions the new Oregon Health Authority's recommendation to tax providers and insurers, then states that it will take real sacrifice from everyone for meaningful change to occur. His presentation had incredible insight. We encourage you to click on this link and look over his slides on "Will Market-Based Healthcare Survive The Tsunami?"
Updates and New Features
Incident Track has undergone a few changes! When you create or modify incidents, you'll notice that adding additional info is easier than before. Whether you want to add expenses, witnesses, responders, investigations, attachments, or at-risk behaviors, all you have to do is click the add button in the appropriate section. There's also additional time-recording capabilities. This allows for greater flexibility when creating or editing incidents. Incident IDs are also customizable now, so you can assign any kind of number you like to any given incident.
We're also working on a new version of COI Track. This is an upgrade to our Risk Solutions platform.
Remember that Risk Solutions is provided as a benefit to our clients. If you have features you'd like to see added, please let us know! Contact Diana Burnette at dianab@kpdinsurance.com if you'd like to suggest anything.
Visit www.kpdinsurance.com and click on the Risk Solutions button to learn more.
Employer Compliance Alerts
OSHA 300 Reminder State and Federal OSHA programs require the OSHA 300 logs to be posted from February 1st to April 30th each year. You can use Incident Track in Risk Solutions to file your incidents and then easily print your logs to stay in compliance. If you need help, there are training webinars to learn more on how to use Incident Track’s OSHA reporting and many other features of Risk Solutions.
For additional information, contact us today.
Did you Know?
By Robert Paskins
• In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivalent of three times around the world.• The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
• Fifteen people are known to have been crushed to death tilting vending machines towards them in the hope of a free can of soda.
• In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people!
• You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.
• The estimated number of M&M's sold each day in the United States is 200,000,000.
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