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Article Excerpt
LAS VEGAS-An excess insurance policy would cover the expense of a medicine-man ritual should a lightning-caused fire burn a building owned by the Navajo Nation.
Should one of the Nation's nearly 7,000 employees request medicine-man consultations to heal a workplace injury, that also is provided for under the tribe's workers compensation benefits.
The Navajo have unique insurance needs, explained David F. Shortey, risk manager for the Navajo Nation, a Window Rock, Ariz.-based tribal government. Mr. Shortey is also the president of the Arizona chapter of the Arlington, Va.-based Public Risk Management Assn.
Mr. Shortey's Navajo Nation owns about $2 billion in assets, including government facilities and plants and equipment that is used to operate several enterprises. The Nation governs over 25,000 square miles in the Four Corners region-where the state lines of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah converge-and it manages one of the largest insurance programs maintained by U.S. Indian tribes.
Mr. Shortey was in Las Vegas recently to help lead the Nation's Insurance 2002 Conference and Expo. The conference began five years ago as an informal powwow. Back then, Mr. Shortey explained, the event was a barbecue...
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