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More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the relentless pressure on health care workers continues to exact a toll. Just this month, dozens of nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts went on strike to protest staffing shortages; a physicians union in Washington state staged protests over alleged safety violations and staffing shortages; and a national nurses union raised…

Nursing homes in some areas would be required to test staff and visitors for COVID-19 on a weekly basis under planned rules from the Trump administration. The testing requirement, announced July 22 as part of a set of initiatives aimed at further protecting nursing home residents from coronavirus, would apply to all nursing homes in states with a 5 percent…

A shortage of acute care doctors and nurses to care for patients suffering from COVID-19 has forced many medical professionals to assume new roles and responsibilities. They are working long hours treating an unprecedented volume of gravely ill patients, often in unfamiliar settings and with insufficient personal protective gear. Many are forced to make life-and-death decisions due to shortages of…

With new models of care evolving and new entrants into the market, there have been many changes in the healthcare environment since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Brad Rosgen, a healthcare practice leader at Farmington Hills, Mich.-based Burns & Wilcox, provides three risk management tips for healthcare organizations in the new environment.

Toronto, ON [March 10, 2014] – In support of Fraud Prevention Month, Burns & Wilcox Canada is encouraging Canadian organizations to re-examine the steps they take to protect themselves from fraud. According to the Shred-it 2013 Information Security Tracker survey, each year, the average organization loses an estimated 5 per cent of its revenues to fraud. Of those organizations, 49…

Breaking news such as the massive data breach at Experian or Target now seems common. Leaving aside the victims of actual fraud, I hear constantly from people who’ve had to swap out every debit and credit card, or whose cards were unilaterally replaced by their bank. This causes all sorts of problems.

Tech firms face multiple perils in addition to cyber risks. Read more at RiskandInsurance.com

Selling Cyber Products Requires a Sharp Eye For Ever-Changing Details. While carefully examining a cyber insurance policy, John Ahmuty, a broker for Swett & Crawford, uncovered a confusing requirement for coverage to be effective. According to the policy, the insured’s security software had to be the “most up to date.” Read more at LeadersEdgeMagazine.com

Most businesses that store customer data have an exposure to privacy liability. Cyber and privacy liability are now a necessity and should be a key component within the overall insurance portfolio for each client. Catch up with security risks and guard your clients against attacks. Cyber and privacy liability or data breach coverage can be compared to any new, innovative…

Within a cyber insurance industry niche chock full of inherent underwriting challenges is a fast-developing, controversial use of the virtual world. Cryptographic digital currency—most commonly referred to as Bitcoin since it is the world’s largest form of this currency—is gaining legitimacy. Late last year former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke told the Senate digital currencies “may hold long-term promise.” Read more at CyberRiskNetwork.com

More and more, data breaches are making mainstream headlines—from the massive breach at Target potentially affecting a third of the American population to the release of hundreds of thousands of personally identifiable information records from institutes of higher learning. The cyber market is buzzing, with reports of increases in submissions for cyber coverage. Read more at CyberRiskNetwork.com

Taking the data from the NPDB’s records, statistics were selected that will be both interesting and timely to doctors and all other medical professionals. At the beginning of the infographic there is also a line graph depicting the total payout amounts from 1992 to 2012. Read more at DiederichHealthcare.com