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PRIMA
The PRIMA 2017 Annual Conference offers more than 55 educational opportunities covering the latest trends and topics affecting public risk management today.
This year, the conference offers three distinct session types, 30-minute cram sessions, 2.5 hour in depth workshops and our traditional 1.25 hour classroom sessions. The opportunities will be organized into tracks such as risk control and safety, risk financing, schools, enterprise risk management, employee benefits and more.
Visit here for more details.
Property Casual 360
Long daylight hours and better driving conditions may lull drivers into a false sense of safety during summer months, according to a new survey.
Two in three drivers report feeling safer driving during the summertime, citing better road conditions and nicer weather as reasons. Despite drivers' self-confidence, Memorial Day commences the most dangerous season of the year on the road, with more auto accidents occurring during summer months than any other time of year, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Insurity’s SIMS Claims is the next generation in claims software: fast, flexible and functional. As a comprehensive solution, SIMS manage multiple lines of insurance with seamless integration, business intelligence, mobile and cloud capabilities. Through rapid deployment and elegant design, SIMS boosts examiner productivity, efficiency and focus.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 Research shows that increasing rates of marijuana use have resulted in an increased rate of car crash fatalities. It is a problem that many proponents for legal adult use of recreational marijuana wish to pretend does not exist. In fact, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott just vetoed his state's marijuana legalization bill with concerns about public safety on his mind. Scott is sending the bill back to the state legislature, asking for harsher penalties for those who drive under the influence.
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FutureStructure
The driverless vehicle shows promise as one of the biggest technological breakthroughs since the assembly line. The safety benefits alone have prompted the U.S. Department of Transportation to propose a rule requiring new light vehicles to be manufactured with autonomous technology. By expediting its growth, our roadways will be safer and our environmental footprint smaller. The question is, are U.S. cities ready for driverless cars?
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Route Fifty
It’s a natural landscape unlike I’ve ever — and I suspect you’ve ever — encountered. Large and angular chunks of land pushed up in a confusing manner, with birch and spruce trees and other vegetation growing up and out of the ground fractures.
It’s a bright and warm mid-April evening and there’s still some snow on the ground, but not too much to prevent me from exploring an unusual municipal park.
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Los Angeles Times
California will likely roll out a limited public earthquake early warning system sometime next year, researchers building the network say. New earthquake sensing stations are being installed in the ground, software is being improved, and operators are being hired to make sure the system is properly staffed, Caltech seismologist Egill Hauksson said at a joint meeting of the Japan Geoscience Union and American Geophysical Union.
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Modern Healthcare
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Amedisys decided it needed to upgrade its disaster plan. The national home healthcare and hospice provider began conducting risk analysis and factoring in local potential hazards to develop a plan to ensure staff and residents at its U.S. facilities could weather natural disasters. From this came several changes: greater coordination with first responders, regular drills and closer collaboration with other Medicare providers.
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NPR
British authorities still have many questions about the Monday night concert bombing in Manchester. They don't yet know if the suicide bomber had any helpers or how he obtained his explosives.
But this much is clear: Western European cities have become regular targets over the past two years, a period coinciding with the rise of the Islamic State and its calls for supporters to strike anywhere they can and with whatever weapons are at hand.
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Forbes
As fascinating as weather can be, it can also be deadly. The devastating storms in the U.S. Great Plains this week remind us of that. Each year tropical cyclones, floods, drought, heat, tornadoes and winter storms take their toll on lives around the world. In the United States, heat is typically the leading cause of weather fatalities.
NextGov
It was only a matter of time until San Francisco again became Ground Zero in a new battle between the public resources of a community and the private reach of technology companies. This week, city supervisor Norman Yee introduced a bill banning delivery robots from San Francisco’s sidewalks and streets. These delivery robots are what folks strolling around Washington, D.C., have been seeing in recent weeks: six-wheeled boxes, roughly the size of beer coolers, ambling along city sidewalks, delivering food and other items.
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Government Executive
Contemporary society has some very wrong-headed ideas about what constitutes success. Popular thinking holds that a person who went to Harvard is smarter and better than someone who attended Ohio State; that a father who stays at home with his kids is contributing less to society than a man who works at a Fortune 500 company; that a woman with 200 Instagram followers must be less valuable than a woman with two million.
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