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The insurance industry was the farthest thing from my mind when in 1976 I put my pursuit of becoming a teacher on hold and joined the workforce. I signed up with a temporary staffing service that placed me in a short-term clerical position with ISMIE, a newly created physician-owned medical malpractice company in Chicago. This temporary position shortly became a permanent under ...

I started my legal career as an Assistant Public Defender in the Mental Health Division of Maryland’s Office of the Public Defender. Through my work and in my personal life, I had become friends with plenty of psychiatrists and, when I saw the job advertisement for a Risk Manager position with PRMS, I sought their feedback. It was all positive. “They’re a great company,” and “t ...

Imagine having a job you love, colleagues and clients that you enjoy working with, and a company that you are proud to work for…that is how I feel about my job at PRMS. I joined PRMS in 2010 as a Risk Manager which allowed me to help our clients manage their professional liability risks and provided me with a solid background on the varied and numerous situations they face. As ...

Twenty-two years ago, I was ready for a career change. In order for that career change to take place, I decided to try my luck and go to a temporary placement agency. Who would have guessed that this would have been one of the best career decisions that I could have made at that time? The agency placed me with an assignment at PRMS to be the front desk receptionist. The assignm ...

If you are a senior psychiatrist and lifetime member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) looking to mentor younger psychiatrists or to just stay involved with the field and colleagues, now’s the perfect time to join Senior Psychiatrists, Inc. In a move designed to help grow its membership and raise its visibility, the group recently eliminated its annual membership fe ...

For almost 20 years, it has been an honor to defend psychiatrists, psychiatry and the practice of medicine through my claims work at PRMS. I am proud to be a part of a team that looks at what it does as “more than an insurance policy.” When other insurance carriers less experienced in psychiatry would exclude things like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or transcranial magnetic ...

My first experience with PRMS is when I called to schedule a job interview.  The human resource manager was not available so Victoria Chevalier, one of the agents, bent over backwards to make sure that I met the team.  Victoria did not have to take the call but she wanted to assist me.  This positive experience left me with a great impression and I knew I wanted to work with th ...

Men wearing ties, women in skirts, smoking allowed in cubicles, no internet access, paper claim files, Tardive Dyskinesia from Haldol and dictation: wow how things have changed over the years. But, a claim has remained a claim and our core values have remained the same as we have strived to obtain our goal to obtain excellent claim resolutions for our clients – and excellent se ...

PRMS was pleased to support the Total Family Care Coalition’s Garden Bugs Summer Camp for youngsters in the District of Columbia, age six to 13. We donated toys, art supplies, books, board games, camp supplies and other items to help get the camp off to a great start.  There were several donations of sporting equipment from soccer balls to jump ropes which will keep the campers ...

I graduated from University of Wisconsin – Madison with a double-major in Accounting and Risk Management and Insurance. A job opportunity at an insurance company presented itself and I decided to focus on a career in insurance. I started in Underwriting and a year later transitioned to the Marketing Department, as an Events Specialist. The opportunity to travel and meet a lot o ...