Is it time to re-think Sexual Abuse and Misconduct (SAM) Risk Management?

Learn SAM trends and proactive approaches with IBANY presenters Tim Jaggs, Founder of BOKRIM, and Shawn McCall of Gallagher’s Risk Placement Services. 

Topics include:

• Sexual misconduct market update
• Current approaches to SAM risk and their flaws
• Proactive options for Sexual Misconduct Risk Management 
• Trends and forecast of SAM marketplace
• The future of SAM risk management – effecting change   

Presenter Bios: 

Tim Jaggs
BOKRIM Founder

Tim developed the first stand-alone sexual abuse and misconduct (SAM) liability insurance for the Catholic Church after the California SAM statute of limitations window first opened in 2003.

Working with most types of youth-serving organization since then, Tim observed that while the scale, scope, and complexity of SAM risk were all increasing, the risk management tools available to organizations were changing hardly at all.

Compounding this, few people responsible for youth safety or SAM risk management are risk management experts. The consequence is that, though they all want to protect children and their organizations as well as possible, they are having to use tools that are becoming less and less adequate for either task.

Children and the people and organizations trying to protect them all deserve better.

In response, Tim developed the BOKRIM Sexual Abuse and Misconduct Safety System (or BASS for short). A BASS enables any organization to use risk management best practices and enables people with no former risk management experience to manage SAM risk like SAM risk management experts.

Acknowledging the impact a BASS can have on an organization’s SAM risk management, some insurers offer up to a 25% premium discount on SAM insurance for a highly rated BASS implementation.
 

Shawn McCall
Senior Vice President –RPS PNP

Shawn specializes in the Property and Casualty placement of Religious & Nonprofit risks for Risk Placement Services (RPS), a division of Arthur J. Gallagher Company (AJG). He has been with RPS over 13 years as well as holds over 25 years of experience in Property & Casualty Insurance.

Shawn’s focus is on placing Casualty on larger complex risks and developing new programs. A major component of Shawn’s role includes managing the placement of 60 plus Religious accounts and groups across the country. Plus Shawn co-leads a team that is involved in underwriting and placing coverage for the Bishops Plan Insurance Company (BPIC) a Gallagher managed captive with over 30 Diocesan clients.

In addition, Shawn and his team have a specialization with Sexual Misconduct and Abuse (SAM) placements. He has developed several SAM programs in London the past 13 years and helped developed SAM resources.

Shawn has worked with Church Mutual (CMIC) the past thirteen years and was a part of helping establish CMIC’s agency group, being their first appointed agent outside of their direct agents. Plus Shawn assisted in developing CMIC’s School program. Shawn has been on the CMIC Producer Council since inception ten years ago.