Risk Management

Risk Management helps to minimize the University’s risk exposure. OGC works in cooperation with PURMIT (Public Universities Risk Management and Insurance Trust), Berkley Risk, and Brown & Brown to manage the following areas related to risk:

• processes all WOU insurance renewals
• maintains up-to-date out-of-state employee information to ensure appropriate Workers Compensation coverage outside of Oregon
• assists campus units with insurance claims
• reviews loss prevention reports from outside consultants
• provides COIs to campus units as necessary

The Interim General Counsel is a PURMIT trustee and the Risk Manager participates on Risk Council. The Risk Manager works with campus units to ensure risk is minimized or adequately addressed when contracting with outside entities.

Risk Incidents: Risk incidents should be reported to the OGC, even if no claim is made. Please contact the Risk Manager at 503-838-9471 or generalcounsel@wou.edu. All insurance claims have a $5,000 deductible, to be charged to the reporting campus unit.

Certificates of Insurance (COI): A general certificate of insurance is available on the Business Services page. Contact VPFA@wou.edu for additional information.