(A) Responsibilities of the Risk Manager. The Risk Manager is responsible for establishing and maintaining a claims processing center for the purpose of controlling all claims within the areas of the city's self-insured program as well as the city's third party insurance program. The center shall function as the control point for administering and tracking claims for risk management and loss control purposes as well as reporting exposures for accounting purposes.
(B) Utilization of third party administrators. The RMAS shall advise the Mayor, based upon recommendation of the Risk Manager, when it is the best interest of the city to contract certain administrative functions to third party administrators. Although such services may be considered necessary to effectively and efficiently administer certain elements of the risk management program, this provision shall not be construed as a delegation of the administrative authority of the Mayor, the Department of Finance, the Risk Manager or any department or official to which the administrative responsibilities have been assigned.
(Ord. passed 4-7-2003)