Self-Insurance Podcast with Kaya Stanley

About Self-Insurance Podcast with Kaya Stanley

Gain practical insights for safeguarding your restaurant's financial health and profitability on the Self Insurance Podcast. Hosted by Kaya Stanley, seasoned attorney and CEO of CRMBC, this series features insightful discussions with industry leaders and experienced operators. Learn how to navigate work comp challenges, optimize insurance strategies, and implement best practices from top performers and advisors in the restaurant industry. Success leaves clues, and this podcast is designed to uncover them for you.

Publisher

Kaya Stanley

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Mar 2024

Latest episode

28 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Arbitration Agreements: Michael Adreani on Costs, Risks, and PAGA

   Michael Adreani is a partner at Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani, where he advises employers on employment and labor law and disputes involving workers’ compensation carriers. In this episode, you’ll learn: What arbitration agreements do and why employers use them to limit class-action exposureWhy an individual arbitration can still cost an employer six figuresWhen Michael recommends compelling arbitration and when he prefers courtHow the 2024 PAGA reforms affect the arbitration decis...

2. 

   6 Jul 2026

   Early Claims Settlement: Randy Bugg on Controlling Workers’ Comp Costs

   Randy Bugg is Senior Vice President at Pacific Claims Management, CRMBC’s third-party claims administrator. He has 34 years of experience in workers’ compensation claims and works with self-insured employers to improve claim outcomes and control costs. In this episode, Randy joins Kaya Stanley to discuss early claims settlement, why some workers’ comp claims drag on, how open claims can become more expensive over time, and what restaurant operators can do early to help the claims team evaluat...

3. 

   17 Jun 2026

   AI in Workers’ Comp: Assisted Intelligence with Benjamin Burch

   Benjamin Burch is a data scientist and associate vice president at Midwest Employers Casualty, where he leads a team building machine learning models and AI solutions for insurance. In this episode, you’ll learn: How AI can support workers’ comp claims decisions without replacing people Why does the Midwest frame AI as assisted intelligence? How AI helps claims teams review unstructured data, large files, and claim notes Where human judgment still matters in treatment, compensation, and negot...

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