Sentences with phrase «risk management efforts»

LAPD's prior risk management efforts focused on assisting in the defence of litigation and providing «lessons learned» from large verdicts and settlements.

So, while knowing substantive law is important, from a claims prevention point of view you get more for your risk management efforts by focusing on improving client communications and focusing on getting things done on time.

So, while knowing substantive law is important, from a claims prevention point of view you get more for your risk management efforts by focusing on improving client communications and focusing on getting things done... [more]

Developing practice area specialties, liaising with marketing, managing competitive intelligence research, supporting risk management efforts.

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The fintech company uses smart data to provide loans to consumers in a convenient and expedited manner, minimizing consumer effort and maximizing risk management.

Underpinning our client service efforts and financial strength is our prudent risk management.

In response, we have focused on very rigorous asset / liability management and proactive risk assessment and recovery efforts.

We believe our strong investment returns are the result of the efforts of our experienced, cohesive and highly motivated Investment Management team, our focus on generating strong absolute, rather than relative, investment returns, and our disciplined risk managemenManagement team, our focus on generating strong absolute, rather than relative, investment returns, and our disciplined risk managementmanagement process.

«We're hopeful that our collaborative efforts will help to smooth the passage of a farm bill that includes provisions designed to enhance risk management options for dairy processors and producers and establish a retailer incentive program in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that includes fluid milk.

The Audit and Risk Committee will use best efforts to ensure that records of all Complaints are maintained in accordance with the Rainforest Alliance's Records Retention and Management policy.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

Efforts to minimize risk of unnecessary cesarean birth can be promoted given the large body of evidence published on various aspects of labor management over the past decade.

In an effort to dispel concerns for the psychological risks to active management of labor, one proponent writes that active management:»... enhances the mother's participation in and control of her experience of her first birth» (O'Herlihy).

In the press release and communication efforts around the second report released early this year, the IPCC went to considerable lengths to portray the climate change challenge as one of «risk management».

Along these lines, the Department of Defense and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) plan to launch a $ 30 - million effort to fund studies on concussion and head - impact exposure among college - age athletes with a multisite longitudinal clinical study on concussion risks, treatment and management.

«Factors associated with catastrophic malpractice payouts present opportunities for targeted risk management and quality improvement efforts,» said co-author Martin A. Makary, M.D, MPH, a surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins.

The Mississippi River has been the focus of huge feats of engineering in an attempt to control the river, but a new study suggests those management efforts might have inadvertently raised the risk of flooding.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Whilst this project will not seek to attribute the impacts of such events, it will seek to understand the existing vulnerability and exposure of these countries to such impacts to further strengthen the evidence base to inform disaster risk management and resilience efforts.

Weight management and increased physical activity, which can lower risk of multiple chronic diseases, should be the mainstay of preventive efforts to reduce incidence of type 2 diabetes.

For this reason, ICPS joined forces with the presidency of the Philippines and the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources of Kenya in an effort to exchange best practices in response to disaster mitigation and risk management.

«This is the highest lead I've ever seen,» said Dr. Paul Lo, a certified lead inspector and lead risk assessor with Materials Management Group Inc., who has headed recent remediation efforts at playgrounds around the city.

Additionally, the time and effort administrators put into risk management can now go toward improving other processes.

For instance, if you perceive that general education teachers in your building are not supportive of your efforts to include students, you may be able to work with your building principal and a general education teacher who is an ally to provide staff development sessions focusing on effective instruction or behavior management for students with disabilities and high - risk students.

I guess if every book was available in electronic format with no DRM [Digital Rights Management; the ability to choose on which devices you can read and share a book — Books Editor] for reasonable prices ($ 10 max for new / bestseller / omnibus, scaling downwards for popularity and value) it just wouldn't be worth the time, effort and risk to find, download, convert and load the book when the same thing could be accomplished with a single click on your Kindle.

We spare no effort in finding CTA's that we feel offers the potential for good returns while also employing good risk management strategies.

The changes announced this week will further contribute to the efforts made throughout the Obama Administration's tenure to improve risk management at FHA and protect the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund.

The portfolio remains focused on INCOME RISK MANAGEMENT ASSETS in an effort to guard against risks like inflation or a market downturn.

GAO was asked to report on (1) the likely program and budget impacts of FHA's modernization efforts; (2) the tools, resources, and risk management practices important to FHA's implementation of the legislative proposals, if passed; and (3) other options that FHA and Congress could consider to help FHA adapt to market changes.

We believe our strong investment returns are the result of the efforts of our experienced, cohesive and highly motivated Investment Management team, our focus on generating strong absolute, rather than relative, investment returns, and our disciplined risk managemenManagement team, our focus on generating strong absolute, rather than relative, investment returns, and our disciplined risk managementmanagement process.

Here's the goal: «we hope to address a significant need for investment strategies that effectively seek to manage risk and utilize active reserve management in an effort to preserve value for investors,» says Mr. Deshpande.

In addition to monitoring such risks, the Committees and the Board oversee efforts of fund management and service providers to manage risks to which the funds of the Trust may be exposed.

David Bresch, Head Sustainability & Political Risk Management at Swiss Re, concluded: «Efforts to manage soil subsidence risks are most effective when they form part of a broader climate adaptation strategy that takes long - term climate impacts into account and engages multiple actors in finding the right solutions.

On the climate change adaptation side, the Bank is stepping up efforts to integrate disaster risk management work with longer - term efforts to make vulnerable nations more resilient to climate and disaster risks.

Others, particularly practitioners, suggested that it would be more productive to work with existing disaster risk management and humanitarian efforts, to ensure that these incorporate the added risk from climate change.

Whilst this project will not seek to attribute the impacts of such events, it will seek to understand the existing vulnerability and exposure of these countries to such impacts to further strengthen the evidence base to inform disaster risk management and resilience efforts.

This volume offers a comprehensive survey and a close analysis of efforts to develop actionable climate information in support of vital decisions for climate adaptation, risk management and policy.

But along with emissions - reduction mitigation to reduce the rate and magnitude of climate change as expeditiously as possible, a comprehensive risk - management climate policy will necessarily require a strategic and multifaceted effort at preparedness to limit vulnerabilities and increase resilience to impacts that can't be avoided.

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In an effort to avoid a repeat of past fire and haze crises, President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo issued several policies governing the management of peatlands, including a land - swap mechanism that allows companies to trade carbon - dense areas in their concessions for lands elsewhere as a means to reduce fire risk.

The Climate Program Office (CPO) manages competitive research programs in which NOAA funds high - priority climate science, assessments, decision support research, outreach, education, and capacity - building activities designed to advance our understanding of Earth's climate system, and to foster the application of this knowledge in risk management and adaptation efforts.

By tailoring geoengineering efforts by region and by need, a new model promises to maximize the effectiveness of solar radiation management while mitigating its potential side effects and risks.

I don't know about «diverting» but allocating at least 10 % of the scale of this this effort to exploring emergency mitigation is prudent risk management, even knowing full well how unpleasant the schemes are likely to to be.

The contrarian goals are to sow confusion and doubt, hamper mitigation efforts, attack legislative attempts for climate change risk management, oppose greenhouse gas regulation, and fight a climate treaty.

Such efforts can be seen as part of an overall privacy management framework and are an integral part of a mature security risk assessment.

We advise law firms on improving efficiency, increasing profits and reducing risk through top - down strategic practice management efforts, focusing on knowledge strategy.

We advise law firms on improving efficiency, increasing profits and reducing risk through top - down strategic practice management efforts, emphasizing knowledge strategy initiatives at the practice group level.

Malcolm Heins, then CEO of LPIC, felt that the company's claims management efforts should be complemented with a risk management initiative.

The LAWPRO Risk Management Credit is another big part of our education efforts and has also had a huge impact.

The effort is funded by the USDA's Risk Management Agency and comes at a critical time in which local, sustainable food sources must be more heavily emphasized across the country in light of growing challenges such as global warming and carbon footprint, water supply, food transportation costs, and food quality.