OREANDA-NEWS. ESIS, Inc., Chubb's risk management services division, today announced it has launched a new industry practice dedicated to serving the claims and risk management needs of healthcare organizations and life sciences firms. The ESIS Healthcare Industry Practice brings together ESIS' capabilities to offer a full range of claims and risk management services tailored to healthcare clients such as hospitals, senior care facilities, physician groups, ancillary healthcare organizations, and manufacturers.

The practice will be led by Sam Terzich, Senior Vice President, ESIS. Mr. Terzich will continue to report to Joe Vasquez, Division President, ESIS. 

The ESIS Healthcare Industry Practice will provide self-insured organizations, risk retention groups, other alternative markets, and insurance companies with specialized claim management services offered by ESIS ProClaimSM. ESIS ProClaim's services include healthcare professional liability claim management, litigation management, medical record reviews, investigations, clinical risk management consultation, National Practitioners Data Bank reporting, MMSEA reporting, claim capability and reserve auditing, as well as special projects.

Healthcare clients also have access to ESIS' broad range of risk management products and services, including workers compensation and liability claim management services, customized medical programs, proprietary technology tools, health, safety and environmental consulting, catastrophe claim management services, global claims services, Special Investigation Unit, and recovery services. In addition, the ESIS Healthcare Industry Practice has aligned itself with Chubb's new Healthcare Industry Practice, which offers a full range of innovative insurance products and services for healthcare customers.

"ESIS has long provided healthcare and life sciences clients with state-of-the-art risk management services," said Mr. Vasquez. "The creation of our new healthcare industry practice, as well as its alignment with Chubb's own practice in this area, will enable us to provide these clients with an even more powerful and broader service offering."

ESIS®, Inc., a Chubb company, provides claim and risk management services to a wide variety of commercial clients.

Chubb is the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.  Parent company Chubb Limited is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CB) and is a component of the S&P 500 index.  Chubb maintains executive offices in Zurich, New York, London and other locations, and employs approximately 31,000 people worldwide.