About the Webinar Series
- Webinars typically take place on the third Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time.
- Each webinar lasts approximately 60 minutes.
- Registration links are provided below with each webinar; a confirmation email will be sent to the email address provided. Reminder emails will be sent 24 hours and one hour prior to the event.
- To join a webinar on the scheduled day and time, please click on the “join” link in either the confirmation email or reminder emails you receive.
- All webinars will be recorded and available within 72 hours if you’re unable to join the live session.
- If you need help, please contact Lesonya Wilder at [email protected].
2025 Monthly Webinar Schedule
Topic Overview
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 9, 2025 | Cooking Up a Compliant Benefits Strategy
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
AI and the Outlook for Human Resources in 2025
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:
- Discuss the impact that AI can have on HR.
- Discover how the EEOC is now enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and how to ensure your organization is compliant with its provisions.
- Learn the most common omissions or mistakes in employee handbooks, how to avoid them, and how to make sure your handbook is easy to understand from front to back.
- Explore how the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark overturning of the 40-year-old Chevron decision last year may shape future employment regulation.
Speakers:
Marci LaRouech, Seay Consultants
Janie Warner, McGriff Employee Benefits
Cooking Up a Compliant Benefits Strategy with the McGriff Employee Benefits Compliance Team
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
A New Vision for Your Company’s Drugfree Workplace Programs and Emerging Pharmacy and Managed Care: Session 1
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:
- Identify the four core components of an effective drug-free workplace policy
- Know how to institute a single or multistate compliant policy, taking into consideration each state’s legal requirements
- Learn about testing technologies with short windows of detection that can expedite hiring, enhance retention, and provide operational and cost benefits
Speaker:
Bill Current, Founder of the Current Consulting Group
A New Vision for Your Company’s Drugfree Workplace Programs and Emerging Pharmacy and Managed Care: Session 2
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:
- Discuss emerging managed care trends
- Review pharmacy trends, including GLP-1 drugs
- Understand specialty medication and gene therapy
Speaker:
Denise Cabrera, Senior Vice President, Pharmacy Practice, McGriff Employee Benefits
2025 McGriff National Benefit Trends Survey Results
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:
- Identify new and emerging trends in employee benefits
- Understand benchmarks and industry insights for benefits offerings
- Understand the benefits landscape to improve retention and gain employee awareness
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
Sustainable Businesses: Business Interruption Insurance and Business Continuity
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:
- Business interruption/income insurance
- What it is and how it responds
- Business income worksheets
- How business continuity planning helps in valuation
- Examples of claims with and without business continuity plan and business interruption insurance
- How to implement a business continuity plan
Speaker:
Jen Desko, Risk Control Executive, Marsh & McLennan Agency
Understanding Pension Plan Accounting
June 26, 2025
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:
- Identify clients that have pension obligations
- Understand the basics of pension plan accounting
- Understand how assumptions and market condition impact pension cost for clients
Speakers:
Charles Stinson, McGriff Retirement Consultant
Jim Derengowski, McGriff Retirement Consultant
How to Leverage Telematics Gamification to Drive Meaningful Results
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:
- Telematics capabilities
- Telematics data attributes
- Managing the data
- Developing driver scorecards
- Data retention and preservation
- Tips for success
Flexible Benefits: More Show, Less Tell
July 24, 2025
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:
- Understand what flexible benefit products are and who can use them
- Gain insight through the “Show and Tell Claims Session” as we dive into what is and isn’t qualified
- Identify when and how to introduce flexible benefits
- Improve and enhance employee education, tips and strategies
Speaker:
Holly Murrah, Development Executive, McGriff TPA for Flex and COBRA Administration
Using Computer-Based Technology to Help Facilitate Safety Performance
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:
- Safety inspections
- Pre-task safety planning
- Vehicle pre-trip inspections
- Safety permitting (hot works, confined spaces, ladders)
- QA/QC inspections
- Workstation ergonomic evaluations
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 and hear from a panel of professionals as they share their experiences and best practices.
Key Takeaways:
- Identify technology platforms used for safety (and other) purposes
- Review safety/loss prevention initiatives for which these platforms are being utilized
- Discuss the unique ways the data helps improve safety (pre-loss trending, accountability, positive reinforcement, etc.)
- Sharing of successes and failures in using computer-based technology to help facilitate safety performance
Speaker:
John Moore, McGriff Vice President
HSA Utilization Strategies: How to Make HSAs the 401(k)s for Health Expenses in Retirement
August 28, 2025
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:
- Understand the tax advantages of an HSA and how they differ from other retirement savings vehicles
- Explore planning strategies for short- and long-term expenses
- Examine the life cycle of an HSA account holder and how to plan for each stage
Speaker:
Christine Pegram, ACFCi
Cooking Up a Compliant Benefits Strategy
September 9, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits
Join us as we whip up a recipe for employee benefits compliance success! The recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act included some new options for employer plan sponsors designing their benefits plans. The U.S. Supreme Court also handed down some decisions that could heat up your compliance risk. We’ll discuss all this and more key ingredients for plan sponsors to consider for the upcoming renewal season.
Speakers:
Laura Clayman, JD, SHRM-CP, McGriff Compliance Officer
Christy Showalter, JD, MBA, McGriff Compliance Officer
OSHA Regulatory Updates and New Resources
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:
- OSHA’s Top 10 most frequently cited standards from fiscal year 2024
- OSHA penalty amounts for 2025
- Standard updates and what’s on the OSHA radar for 2025
- New resources from OSHA
Key Takeaways:
- Understand OSHA’s major regulatory changes and how to comply
- Provide an overview of standard updates and industry requirements
- Discuss new compliance assistance resources issued by OSHA
Speaker:
Nick Reynolds, CSP AVP, McGriff Risk Control Consultant
Cyber – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
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:
- Cybersecurity challenges
- 2025 state of cyber risk
- Developing risk trends
- State of Cyber Insurance
- Privacy law overview
- Regulatory red flags
Speakers:
Gene Fishel, Attorney, Troutman Pepper Attorney
Chris Moschella, Senior Manager, Keiter Risk Advisory
Alan Delahunty, McGriff Vice President
Ready for 2026: Building a Compliant Benefits Strategy
November 20, 2025
Focus: Employee Benefits
With 2026 approaching, staying ahead on employee benefits compliance is key. Rapid legislative changes and new challenges mean having the right strategy can make a difference. Join us for our latest webinar, “Ready for 2026: Building a Compliant Benefits Strategy.” You’ll get practical insights and tools to help you avoid costly compliance mistakes. Our Health & Welfare Compliance Services team and the McGriff Employee Benefits Compliance team will cover:
- Recent legislative updates
- Best practices and tips to meet deadlines
- Resources like checklists, tutorials, and toolkits
- Hot topics and common employer concerns