Scott Diener, president and chief executive officer of NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, was voted on to the board of directors. Diener is the first officer of the company to serve in this capacity. His board position will be up for election by policyholders in 2017. The addition of Diener brings the board membership to 11 members.
In addition to deep medical expertise and acumen, Physicians today also require awareness and knowledge in areas such as practice administration, reputation management, data integrity risks and much more. NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, which insures more than 17,000 physicians and health care professionals in California, acknowledges these changing trends in its newest policy. The new NORCAL Mutual Health Care Professionals (HCP) policy, now available in California, covers physicians for medical incidents, administrative liability and cyber liability risks, including cyber terrorism, cyber extortion, denial of service attacks and data recovery costs.
NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, one of the top ten largest medical professional liability insurance companies in the nation, released a new mobile application – MyNORCAL™ – that will enable policyholders to conveniently access exclusive risk management claims-based learning and advice, take quizzes to earn continuing medical education (CME) credit and obtain certificates of completion on their mobile devices.
NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, one of the top ten medical professional liability insurance companies in the nation, has received for the third consecutive time an “Accreditation with Commendation” reaccreditation decision, the highest level awarded by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). NORCAL Mutual has been extended a 6-year accreditation term for its risk management continuing medical education (CME) program.
NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, one of the top ten largest medical professional liability insurance companies in the nation, welcomes Michael Perkins as the new Vice President of Information Technology (IT). Perkins will lead the next phase of technology development and infrastructure improvement in NORCAL Mutual’s national expansion.
NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company, one of the top medical professional liability insurance providers in the nation, recognizes that the potential for a data breach is a stark reality for medical practices today. This is why NORCAL Mutual’s newest Illinois policy, which launched this month, includes comprehensive protection for certain data breaches and cyber liability. 34.7 percent of data breaches in the United States in 2015 have been medical and healthcare industry related, according to the latest report published by the Identity Theft Resource Center. More than 19,000 of these exposed records were from Illinois. Health information continues to be one of the highest targeted categories for data breaches.
