Kansas City Auditor’s Recommendation Will Assist Risk Management Data Analysis And Reporting

Press release from the City of Kansas City:

April 14, 2020

The City Auditor’s Office released an audit focusing on whether the Law Department could improve its legal claim, settlement, and judgment data to support the risk management program’s goal to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risk. In December 2019, the City Council directed the establishment of a more robust risk management program to report annually on the frequency of claims, trends in frequency and severity, and any departments, divisions, or conditions that are contributing unduly to losses to the city.

The audit concluded that the Law Department’s existing claims and lawsuit databases were developed to meet the department’s case management needs; they were not designed to capture all data needed for risk analysis and reporting nor to perform that analysis efficiently. The risk manager will not be able to develop accurate and complete risk management reports because of data reliability issues identified in the existing databases.

The audit recommends developing a new, single database built for the purpose of both case tracking and risk management data analysis and reporting The city attorney agreed with the recommendation.

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