Advanced Insurance Practice 2013

- Location -
The New Yorker Hotel
481 Eighth Avenue @ 34th Street
New York, NY 10001
(212) 244-0719

Description

Recent natural disasters have raised awareness of intricate insurance coverage issues. This full-day program, presented by seasoned insurance law practitioners, will explore a number of complex substantive and procedural issues in the insurance coverage area. Topics to be discussed include:

1. Lessons from Super Storm Sandy
2. Declaratory Judgment Actions and Discovery
3. Employment Practices and Social Media
4. Allocation Issues
5. Bad Faith Update
6. A Look at the Future

Who Should Attend:

1. Insurance company attorneys
2. Civil Litigators: Plaintiff and Defense
3. Attorneys representing clients whose homes or businesses have been or may someday be impacted by floods or other natural disasters

 This opportunity to gain insights on hot button insurance coverage issues from highly respected insurance law practitioners is not to be missed! Register online today!

Agenda

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.                Registration

9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.                Welcome and Introductions

9:10 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.             Water, Water Everywhere: What Every Lawyer Should Know About Super Storm Sandy
                                                     and Other Natural Disasters

                                                             - Overview of first party coverage
                                                             - Groundwater, Floods, Surge and Coverage
                                                             - Business Interruption Insurance
                                                             - Policyholder and carrier counsel perspectives
                                                             Speaker:  Glenn A. Kaminska, Esq., Ahmuty Demers & McManus, Bohemia

10:25 a.m.- 10:35 a.m.           Coffee Break

10:35 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.         Declaratory Judgment Actions and Discovery

                                                            - What is relevant and discoverable in coverage litigation;
                                                            - Understanding the nature and content of claims files and underwriting files
                                                            - How to properly raise privileges and secure or oppose applications for protective orders;
                                                            - Ethical considerations with regard to privilege claims
                                                            - Discovery and protection of Electronically Stored Data
                                                            Speaker:  Eric D. Suben, Esq., Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry, Hawthorne

11:35 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.         Coffee Break

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.        Who Goes First? Allocation Issues for Defense and Indemnity:

                                                           - “Other insurance” issues
                                                           - Primacy, proration and sharing
                                                           - Obligations to defend, choosing defense counsel, dividing defense costs
                                                           - Indemnity obligations between and among primary, excess and umbrella carriers
                                                           - Long tail claims – lead, asbestos and other challenging claims
                                                           Speaker:  Michael P. Kandler, Esq., Goldberg Segalla, LLP, NYC

12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.           Lunch (on your own)

1:45 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.             Bad Faith Update

                                                         - First Party Bad Faith Claims
                                                         - GBL 349
                                                         - Unfair Claims Settlement Practices and Available Damages
                                                         - Bad Faith in the Third Party Context-An Update
                                                         Speaker:  Robert J. Permutt, Esq., Nationwide Insurance, White Plains

2:35 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.            Employment Practices and Social Media:

                                                        - Ethical rules relating to social media investigation and discovery
                                                        - Employer’s rights to demand passwords
                                                        - Constructing appropriate discovery demands and securing records from social media sites
                                                        Speaker:  David Edward Potter, Esq., Lazare Potter & Giacovas LLP, NYC

3:25 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.            Refreshment Break

3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.            Look Back – Top Ten Insurance Coverage Decision in the Past Year and a Peek Through
                                                  the Looking Glass

                                                        - What decisions have changed the paradigm?
                                                        - What’s on the horizon?
                                                        Speaker:  Alan C. Eagle, Esq., Rivkin Radler LLP, Uniondale

4:25 p.m.                                Adjournment

6.5 MCLE credits (5.5 Areas of Professional Practice; 1.0 Ethics)

Joanna M. Roberto, Esq., Goldberg Segalla, LLP, Garden City:  Overall Planning Co-Chair and NYC Local Chair

COURSE MATERIALS FOR NYSBA CLE PROGRAMS ARE NOW DISTRIBUTED ELECTRONICALLY!

All program materials are distributed exclusively online in searchable PDF format, allowing attendees more flexibility in storing this information and allowing you to copy and paste relevant portions of the materials for specific use in your practice.  A CLE NotePad © (paper) will be provided to all attendees at the live program site.  The CLE NotePad © includes lined pages for taking notes on each topic, as well as any PowerPoint presentations submitted prior to printing.

Prior to a scheduled program date, all registrants will receive an email message containing a hyperlink that when clicked will provide you with access to the complete course materials in a searchable PDF format which can be downloaded to your computer using the “Save As” option under your “File” tab. Printing the complete materials is not required for attending the program. Online materials are updated periodically to reflect last minute submissions from program faculty, guaranteeing that you will always have the latest version of the materials.

Traditional printed course books may be ordered at the program site for a discounted price and will be shipped subsequent to the program date.

Directions

The last day to pre-register online was May 2, 2013.

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Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities:
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