Craig Hooper: Mitigating event risk

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Health management consultant Craig Hooper discusses mitigating risk, duty of care and healthcare management for insurers and event managers of mass gatherings and large public events

Whether it is a large fun-run marathon or an international football game, event managers have a huge task when making certain the event runs smoothly and without incident. Event planners have a myriad of things to manage, from participants to finances, insurances to clearances, security and publicity (and many other things). They are appointed as the experts that make an event work well. At the same time, underwriters have an expectation that their risk will be mitigated by systems and processes put in place by event managers. Medical services Indeed, insurance companies have...

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