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Committee presses city to improve risk-management reporting, consider insurance review

Government Audits and Oversight Committee, Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco · September 10, 2007
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Summary

A Civil Grand Jury report criticized weak accountability in the city—s risk-management and self-insurance approach; city officials agreed in principle and outlined phased steps including loss-run reporting, a staff needs assessment and a consultant review if funds are identified.

The committee heard a Civil Grand Jury report asserting the city's risk-management system lacks adequate accountability for claims and general-fund costs, and that outside pressures common in the private sector (insurers, outside counsel) are absent in the city's self-insurance model.

Patricia Knight, foreperson of the grand jury, said the jury's core concern is "the lack…

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