February 20, 2025 | AI and the Outlook for Human Resources in 2025
May 15, 2025 | 2025 McGriff National Benefit Trends Survey Results
June 12, 2025 | Sustainable Businesses: Business Interruption Insurance and Business Continuity
June 26, 2025 | Understanding Pension Plan Accounting
July 17, 2025 | How to Leverage Telematics Gamification to Drive Meaningful Results
July 24, 2025 | Flexible Benefits: More Show, Less Tell
August 21, 2025 | Using Computer-Based Technology to Help Facilitate Safety Performance
September 18, 2025 | OSHA Regulatory Updates and New Resources
October 16, 2025 | Cyber - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
November 20, 2025 | Cooking Up a Compliant Benefits Strategy with the McGriff EB Compliance Team
February 20, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits and Risk Management
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere! Human Resources is one of the most prominent areas where AI could create both efficiency and better decision-making tools. This session will explore some of the most common uses of AI in the HR world and discuss the pros and cons of the application of this revolutionary technology.
We will also discuss other trending HR topics and recent developments in employment regulation.
Learning objectives:
Speakers:
Marci LaRouech, Seay Consultants
Janie Warner, McGriff Employee Benefits
March 20, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits
Join us as we serve up the recipe for employee benefits compliance success! We’ll warm up with recent legislation, offer some key ingredients for staying on top of regulatory requirements, and dish out tips to avoid costly compliance mistakes. Your McGriff team will provide you with sharpened tools and resources to keep your benefits plans stirring smoothly throughout the year.
Speakers:
McGriff Employee Benefits Compliance Team
April 10, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits and Risk Management
Employers are legally responsible for maintaining an effective drug-free workplace program, a big challenge in an era of legalized marijuana, increasing drug abuse, and the ongoing task of hiring and retention. At the same time, employers must also choose the right Pharmacy Benefit Manager for their organization to manage costs, ensure quality of care, and improve the health and well-being of their employees.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Christine Clearwater, Senior Consultant Risk Management Services, Current Consulting Group, LLC
April 17, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits and Risk Management
Employers are legally responsible for maintaining an effective drug-free workplace program, a big challenge in an era of legalized marijuana, increasing drug abuse, and the ongoing task of hiring and retention. At the same time, employers must also choose the right Pharmacy Benefit Manager for their organization to manage costs, ensure quality of care, and improve the health and well-being of their employees.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Denise Cabrera, Senior Vice President, Pharmacy Practice, McGriff Employee Benefits
May 15, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits
McGriff surveys hundreds of employers representing major industries across the country. These annual survey results provide thoughtful analysis into the most important employee benefit trends of the day. Join a group of our McGriff National Specialty Practice leaders to review the results of our latest trend survey and learn about which benefit strategies are gaining traction in 2025.
Key Takeaways:
Speakers:
Nick Pearce, Financial Analytics National Practice, McGriff Employee Benefits
Janie Warner, HR Advisory National Practice, McGriff Employee Benefits
Katie O’Neill, Clinical Wellness National Practice, McGriff Employee Benefits
June 12, 2025
Focus: Risk Management
Is your business in it for the long haul? With the rising threat of business interruption, continuity planning is vital for countering the effects of crises events. In this webinar we will explore business continuity plans and business interruption insurance alongside actual claim and disaster events. We will review critical steps to implement a business continuity plan that will value your operations for coverage properly and help your organization recover quickly.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Jen Desko, McGriff Risk Control Consultant
June 26, 2025
Registration will open closer to the event.
Focus: Employee Benefits
Pension plan accounting standards have guidelines for projecting plan expenses that include key concepts like projected benefit obligation, service cost, interest cost and expected return on assets. Market conditions are also a main driver in setting assumptions to determine the cost for plan sponsors. Understanding these concepts, the accounting standards, and the assumptions used to calculate the liability is key to controlling expense and plan viability.
Key Takeaways:
Speakers:
Charles Stinson, McGriff Retirement Consultant
Jim Derengowski, McGriff Retirement Consultant
July 17, 2025
Focus: Risk Management
Vehicle telematics systems have advanced significantly since their debut nearly 40 years ago. Advances in technology, such as improved GPS accuracy, expanded wireless coverage, and faster wireless data speeds have turned telematics into powerful management tools.
The availability of telematics also expanded significantly due, in part, to the 2017 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate. The ELD mandate brought many new providers into the vehicle telematics space. Technology that was initially only adopted by large trucking fleets is now widely used among fleets of all sizes.
Join us for a discussion on best practices of telematics usage and leveraging the results.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Casey Blackford, McGriff Risk Control Consultant
July 24, 2025
Registration will open closer to the event.
Focus: Employee Benefits
Learn the what, when, why and how about flexible benefit products! Employees don’t enroll in products they don’t understand. It’s one thing to know about flexible benefits and tell employees they can save money, it’s another to show them how!
After a high-level overview of what flexible benefit options are, we’ll narrow our focus to a discussion about FSAs and HSAs. Improve your ability to help educate employees by first properly educating yourself. Properly educated employees can make well-informed decisions to make the best choices for themselves and their families. Employees who receive quality education about their benefit options have higher levels of participation, which translates to increased job satisfaction, positive feedback about benefit options, and retention.
This webinar is ideal for employee benefit professionals who want to better understand flexible benefits, how to incorporate products into their benefit strategy, and how to support and encourage employee participation.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Holly Murrah, Development Executive, McGriff TPA for Flex and COBRA Administration
August 21, 2025
Focus: Risk Management
Companies today use a variety of computer-based technology platforms (e.g., Smart Sheet, HammerTech, iAuditor, Origami, etc.) for measuring the performance of safety tasks that help prevent incidents and claims. For the most part, these platforms are blank canvases from which creative safety professionals are developing “leading indicator” masterpieces of safety responsibilities. Some examples we have observed include, but are not limited to:
Curious about how other companies are using this technology to help drive their loss prevention efforts? Investigating platforms available for this purpose? Be sure to join this webinar.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
John Moore, McGriff Vice President
August 28, 2025
Registration will open closer to the event.
Focus: Employee Benefits
HSAs offer a number of benefits beyond spending for the short-term. They can be instrumental in saving for longer-term qualified expenses through proper planning and investing.
This session will explore the tax advantages of an HSA, planning strategies for the short and long term, and investment options to build retirement savings. We will also explore the benefits of including your HSA in estate planning.
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Christine Pegram, ACFCi
September 18, 2025
Focus: Risk Management
OSHA and other federal agencies continually update their standards and regulatory requirements. It isn’t enough to only be aware of OSHA safety standards, you also need to make sure your employees are trained and ready to adhere to their requirements.
Join us as we provide an overview of the following major regulatory changes:
Key Takeaways:
Speaker:
Nick Reynolds, CSP AVP, McGriff Risk Control Consultant
October 16, 2025
Focus: Risk Management
Join professionals from Troutman Pepper, Keiter and McGriff to learn more about the growing threat of cybercrimes. Organizations of all sizes know that no one is exempt from cyberthreats. During this session, we will discuss insurance challenges, litigation, cyber hygiene, best practices, recent incidents, and more.
Key Takeaways:
Speakers:
Gene Fishel, Attorney, Troutman Pepper Attorney
Chris Moschella, Senior Manager, Keiter Risk Advisory
Suzanne Gladle and Alan Delahunty, McGriff Vice Presidents
November 20, 2025
Registration will open closer to the event.
Focus: Employee Benefits
Join us as we serve up the recipe for employee benefits compliance success! We’ll warm up with recent legislation, offer some key ingredients for staying on top of regulatory requirements, and dish out tips to avoid costly compliance mistakes. Your McGriff team will provide you with sharpened tools and resources to keep your benefits plans stirring smoothly throughout the year.
Key Takeaways:
Speakers:
McGriff Employee Benefits Compliance Team
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