CNA has invited MCAA members to participate in an educational webcast to learn about fraudulent property and casualty insurance claims and how to detect and prevent them. Fraudulent claims cost Americans, especially business owners, billions of dollars annually through increased premium rates and taxes. CNA's Special Investigation Unit will lead you through methods to identify and prevent fraud in your own business. Fraud accounts for more than 10 percent of all property/casualty insurance claims (National Insurance Crime Bureau).The webcast, which is free to MCAA members as a benefit of membership, will be presented on Wednesday, March 19 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). To register, please contact Pete Chaney at pchaney@mcaa.org to request a webcast flier. You will receive the flier electronically, which will allow you to register online. 

A featured speaker at the NCPWB Annual Technical Committee Meeting (Marco Island Beach Resort, FL, April 27-29) will enlighten you about the importance of ergonomics for keeping workers healthy and safe while on the jobsite...and elsewhere. Carolyn Lundberg, president of ACE Ergonomics (Irvine, CA), will lead an ergonomic safety seminar about the benefits of making a worksite fit the worker rather than requiring workers to adapt to the worksite.  She'll also discuss Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs) and Repetitive Stress Injuries (RSIs) and how to avoid or reduce injuries at (and away from) the workplace. Other topics will include how to avoid or reduce visual stress while performing close-up work, stretching techniques and rest breaks at the workplace, and what should comprise a company-provided ergonomics/safety program. Find out at www.mcaa.org/education/ncpwb and register online.