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Project Aquashield—Launches January 1st
Project Aquashield is a specialized initiative designed to deliver broad, stable, and cost-efficient risk coverage to California's investor-owned water utilities through a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) structure. Developed in collaboration with the California Water Association (CWA) and CalMutuals JPRIMA, Project Aquashield ensures a sustainable, transparent, and mutually beneficial risk-management model for the state's essential water systems.
Workers Compensation in the Water Management Industry
This video provides a historical perspective of California Workers Compensation including its main cost drivers, jurisdictional heat maps, ways to properly assist employees with disabilities and comorbidities, and strategies to address medical bill review and medical provider networks. Davidson Pattiz, Chief Operating Officer at Zenith Insurance Company, will provide this important content in an understandable and actionable format.
Critical Infrastructure - Part 3
Kevin McDonald, COO & CISO with Alvaka Networks will discuss security concerns and security culture challenges within the water/wastewater industry, with emphasis on cyber concerns.
Critical Infrastructure - Part 2
Joseph Crisologo, Senior Homeland Security Engineer at California State Water Resources Control Board, will provide a regulatory perspective on security challenges within the water industry, putting current legislation and regulations in context and sharing his thoughts on the future of Federal involvement in water security.
Critical Infrastructure - Part 1
Joe Weiss, Managing Partner with Applied Control Solutions, LLC takes us through two case scenarios involving critical security losses to water-wastewater entities.
Inverse Condemnation - Part 3
Paul Fuller, CEO of Allied Public Risk and AAWD&M Director, will provide a detailed examination of risk transfer strategies encompassing inverse condemnation.
Inverse Condemnation - Part 2
Marc Marcantonio, General Manager at Yorba Linda Water District, will discuss his district’s experience, lessons learned, and peer advice associated with inverse condemnation litigation from the 2008 Freeway Complex Fire.
Inverse Condemnation - Part 1
Inverse condemnation is a complicated legal theory presenting unique defense challenges for public water systems. In this video, Joseph Salazar, partner with Lewis Brisbois, will provide a summary of inverse condemnation including its origins, precedent, and impact on public water systems.
Public Drinking Water Suppliers, Wildfire Liability, & Inverse Condemnation
The same legal regime that has threatened the financial standing of California’s major electric and gas providers threatens the very existence of the state’s public drinking water suppliers and their ability to provide safe, dependable drinking water to customers.