Hosted by Insurance Journal’s Andrea Wells, the newest Risky Future webinar examines key workers’ comp market trends and shares strategies for delivering better outcomes for injured workers, employers, and workplace safety.

What You Will Learn //

• Workers’ compensation market trends
• Preventive and proactive claims management tactics
• Pressing issues to watch that impact workers’ comp outcomes, both today and in the future
• Best practices and mitigation strategies that reduce the overall cost of risk

Meet the Panelists //

Carol Ungaretti
Managing Consultant at Aon

Carol Ungaretti is a Managing Consultant with Aon’s Global Consulting practice and focuses her attention on the design, development, implementation and benchmarking of comprehensive casualty risk consulting projects. Carol incorporates industry best practices with Aon’s proprietary cost mitigation strategies and tools to provide specialized services for clients in managing and reducing their overall cost of risk. The goal is to positively influence individual outcomes and portfolio-wide results, both retrospectively for existing claims and prospectively for claims which have not yet occurred. Prior to joining Aon, Carol served as a Claims Service Account Manager for Zurich-American Insurance Company, providing consulting expertise and oversight of customers’ claim service programs, including medical management strategies, special handling instructions, key indicator reports and resolving claim handling issues.

Sarah Scott
EVP of Product at CorVel Corporation

Sarah Scott is the Executive Vice President of Product at CorVel Corporation, where she leads product vision and strategy to deliver innovative risk management solutions. With over 30 years in the workers’ compensation industry and more than 25 years at CorVel, Sarah brings a deep understanding of clinical care, operational excellence, and strategic innovation. Her leadership continues to drive improved outcomes, cost savings, and value for CorVel’s partners. She holds an associate degree in nursing and a bachelor’s degree in health information management from Ohio State University.

Nathan Hale
Sr Director and Head of Global Risk Management at Sysco Corporation

Nathan Hale is the Senior Director and Head of Global Risk Management at Sysco Corporation, the largest foodservice distribution company in the world. He leads global insurance placements across Property, Cyber, Management Liability, and Casualty lines, manages Sysco’s internal claims process, and oversees its captive insurance company. He also partners closely with Legal, EHS, and Finance to align risk strategy with business priorities.

Nathan previously held risk leadership roles at USAA and State Street and began his career on the insurance carrier side—giving him a unique 360-degree perspective across underwriting, claims, corporate risk, and financial strategy.

He is a board member of the Texas Captive Insurance Association (TxCIA) and the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation (ARAWC). He is widely recognized for applying a CFO-minded lens to risk, structuring insurance programs that enhance financial predictability, reduce litigation exposure, and drive long-term business value.

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Keep this 10-page directory at your fingertips to easily look up company contact information, markets offered, and all the details you need to quickly find your workers’ comp solution.

Bonus: Insurance Journal’s special report “What’s Next for Workers’ Comp” is included along with the directory.

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The goal of this guide is to provide a platform for agents to quickly find like carrier info, geographic availability, limits and other details provided by the markets who participate. We hope you find it to be a useful resource for placement of your workers’ compensation accounts. We’ve also included some eye-opening stats about the current workers’ compensation market. You may even want to share these items with your clients and prospects.

P.S. If you are a market interested in being included in future guides, contact us at 800-897-9965, ext. 132.

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Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Prevention and proactive measures that affect outcomes
• Impact of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives on claims outcomes
• Whole person treatment post-injury and why behavioral health matters

Meet the Expert Panel:

Host: Andrea Wells Vice President, Content at Insurance Journal		Nikki S. Jackson, MBA, CPCU, ARM, CDMS CEO at Elevate the Narrative
Elise White, MBA Former Director of Workforce Resilience at Zurich Resilience Solutions		Jean Feldman, RN Senior Director of Managed Care at Sentry Insurance

Nikki S. Jackson, MBA, CPCU, ARM, CDMS
Elevate the Narrative

‘Nerdy Nikki’ is a data-driven, strategic executive leader with 17+ years of experience in the property & casualty insurance and benefits-delivery industry.  During her career, Nikki has affected almost every aspect of the claims management process, working with over 100 Fortune 500 companies, dozens of TPAs and carriers, and countless vendors in various roles from operations to strategy and marketing.  Skilled at growing teams and businesses, she is an innovative thinker invested in cutting-edge technology who leverages print and digital media to educate and showcase solutions for various stakeholders.  Nikki is the creator of a popular property & casualty blog, Elevate the Adjuster, founder of The Work Comp Power Prompt™, and author of the insurance industry’s largest academic, research study, The Workers’ Compensation Talent Shortage©.  Nikki currently serves as the CEO of ‘Elevate the Narrative’ where she strives to amplify risk and insurance innovation by connecting game-changing solutions to industry leaders.  Often regarded as a passionate speaker, Nikki is also active in RIMS, the CPCU Society, the Alliance of Women in Workers’ Compensation, and CHIEF.

Elise White, MBA

Elise White was formerly the Director of Workforce Resilience for Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS), supporting companies in fostering inclusive and resilient work environments that help protect workers and drive business productivity and performance.  She draws from over 15 years of hands-on Workers Compensation and Claims experience, including managing catastrophic cases, to help companies “connect the dots” to understand current workforce risks, create targeted mitigation strategies, and build organizational capability. Specifically, Elise provides services to strengthen talent attraction and engagement; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and worker health and safety, including creating holistic solutions in collaboration with other ZRS risk teams. Before joining ZRS, Elise held Claims roles at Travelers Insurance and Liberty Mutual Group.

Elise holds the Inclusion Score ISO Diversity and Inclusion standard certification, which provides a framework for evaluating DEI maturity and action planning. She also holds an MBA in Organization Leadership from Wilmington University and Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Temple University. Elise serves as a board member of Girls on the Run – Georgia and is a board member of the Diversity and Talent Alliance.

Jean Feldman
Sentry Insurance

Jean Feldman, RN, is the senior director of managed care at Sentry Insurance where she oversees Sentry’s managed care programs and clinical strategy for workers’ compensation. She has over 30 years of experience working with Fortune 1000 national insurance carriers, managed care companies, physician networks, and third-party administrators, developing nurse case management programs and specialty products that evolve with the times and technology.

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Keep this 10-page directory at your fingertips to easily look up company contact information, markets offered, and all the details you need to quickly find your workers’ comp solution.

Bonus: Insurance Journal’s special report “Why a Focus on Safety Matters” is included along with the directory.

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This guide provides a platform for agents to find quick information like carrier info, geographic availability, limits and other details provided by the markets.

We hope you find this guide to be a useful resource for placement of your workers’ compensation accounts. You’ll also find eye-opening stats about the current workers’ compensation market. You may even want to share these items with your clients and prospects.

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Understanding how overall worker health and well-being affects workplace safety and risk has become an increasingly important issue for employers and their workers’ compensation insurance providers. While workers’ comp players recognize the importance of addressing total worker health during a worker’s recovery and return to work, there is more work that needs to be done. Many stakeholders have concerns that the current efforts to address behavioral health care needs of workers may be insufficient in today’s current work environment. This webinar will address the new reality of work and how that trend plays into the world of workers’ compensation.

What you will learn:

1. How serious of a problem is workers’ stress and mental health today?
2. How should employers respond and help?
3. What are preventions, solutions, and interventions?
4. What’s compensable and what’s not?

These are a few of the questions we will tackle in the upcoming webinar.

Meet our Guests:

Host: Andrea Wells Vice President, Content Insurance Journal		Dr. L. Casey Chosewood Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives, NIOSH
Dr. Marcos Iglesias Chief Medical Director, Vice President, Travelers		Rich Ives Vice President, Business Insurance Claim, The Travelers Companies

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Keep this 10-page directory at your fingertips to easily look up company contact information, markets offered, and all the details you need to quickly find your workers’ comp solution.

Bonus: Insurance Journal’s special report “Employers Grappling with Changing Workplace Where Labor Is Scarce & Workers Feel Isolated” is included along with the directory.

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This guide provides a platform for agents to find quick information like carrier info, geographic availability, limits and other details provided by the markets. We hope you find this guide to be a useful resource for placement of your workers’ compensation accounts. You’ll also find eye-opening stats about the current workers compensation market. You may even want to share these items with your clients and prospects.

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This 10-page directory includes company contact information along with an at-a-glance overview of the details you need to quickly find your solution.

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Andrea Wells Editor in Chief Insurance Journal	Andrew Dalton Work Comp Practice Lead The Hartford
Dan O’Brien Partner Fisher Phillips	Patricia Corrigan Johnston Managing Director Risk Strategies

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Talent challenges inside and outside of the workers’ comp industry
• How labor shortages and changing workplaces are affecting the market
• Old risks and new risks that are leading to claims
• Our outlook for the future workers’ comp industry

This Insurance Journal webinar is brought to
you free of charge thanks to our sponsor, Foresight.

Panelist Bios:

Andrew Dalton is the practice lead for workers’ compensation at The Hartford, a role that he has held since 2019. He has previously held roles in actuarial, data science, and product management, and is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Dan O’Brien is a partner in the Cleveland office of Fisher Phillips law firm. His practice focuses on risk and claims management. His five major areas of concentration are in workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation, alternative risk transfer methods, establishment of Best Practices Claims Management Programs and the impact of workers’ and unemployment costs in a merger or acquisition. He has over 38 years of experience representing employers before the Industrial Commission of Ohio, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.

Patricia Corrigan Johnston is the founder and president of Corrigan Johnston Risk Advisors Inc., a Risk Strategies Company, which specializes in providing insurance and risk management services to three classes of business: Final Mile Delivery, Moving and Storage and Auto Dealerships. The agency was originally launched as a workers’ compensation focused agency, but as her clients requested additional coverages, Johnston expanded the offerings of the agency. In September 2021, Corrigan Johnston Risk Advisors joined Risk Strategies where Johnston now serves as a managing director.

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It’s no wonder – according to NCCI’s 2020 figures, workers’ comp is a $42 billion industry!  This guide offers interesting insights and listings of carriers to assist you when talking about workers comp with your clients and prospects, or searching for just the right coverage.

Download this free guide today!

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This 10-page alpha listing includes contact information along with a brief description of the information you need quickly to make your selection:

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In this webinar hosted by Insurance Journal Editor in Chief, Andrea Wells, we address how the coronavirus crisis affected the workers’ compensation landscape, current workforce trends and what they mean for the market, and opportunities and challenges for the comp line going forward.

What You’ll Learn:

• How COVID-19 crisis impacted workers’ compensation.
• Challenges for injured workers, carriers, and agents and brokers in today’s market
• What’s to come for the rest of 2021 and beyond.

Panelists:

David Chmiel is senior vice president, and the national director of claims for global insurance brokerage HUB International. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the risk management space. At HUB, he is responsible for the firm’s claims advocacy and business growth. Chmiel’s claims team integrates with risk services and aligns with all of HUB’s specialty practices, including transportation, entertainment, financial services, real estate, construction, hospitality, cannabis, agribusiness and healthcare. He also is a Worldwide Broker Network regional leader.

Nancy Germond is the president of Insurance Writer, a consulting firm located in Phoenix, Arizona. With more than three decades of risk management experience, her unique insights and abilities help businesses better understand and manage their risk. She has authored scores of risk management-related articles, white papers and has consulted and presented to both public sector and private sector insurance organizations.

Rick Poulin, FCAS, CPCU, leads the Business Insurance Workers Compensation product team at Travelers. In this role, he collaborates with underwriting and actuarial partners to steer the long-term vision, direction and priorities associated with the workers compensation product.

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