2019 CLM Cyber, Management and Professional Liability Conference
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Premiere Session I - Danger Zone: Heightened Duties for Professionals Representing Companies in the Zone of Insolvency Download Premiere Session II - New Generation of Wearables and Developments in Legal Landscape Governing Biometric Information Download SESSION 1A - Cyber: Cyber Insurance Coverage – Where We are and Where We May be Going! Download SESSION 1B: EPL/D&O: Professional, D&O and EPL Issues Relating to Mass Shootings Inside Companies, Churches, Schools and Public Areas Download SESSION 1C: Management Liability: Girl on Fire: The Price of Pursuing the Truth in the #MeToo World Download SESSION 1D: Med Mal: Telemedicine – The Cryptocurrency of Professional Liability Download SESSION 1E: Professional Liability: Actions/Inactions of Professionals During Catastrophic Events Can Lead to Liability Download SESSION 2A: Cyber: The Challenge Ahead — Cyber Pricing, Modeling and Reserving Download SESSION 2B: Cyber: Well, It’s Too Late Now — Being Properly Prepared for a Data Breach Download SESSION 2C: EPL: Navigating the Weeds in the Workplace — State Disability Laws and Medical Marijuana Download SESSION 2D: Legal Liability: Avoiding Malpractice and Bad Faith in an Electronic World Download SESSION 2E: Med Mal: One Bad Apple — Navigating Sexual Battery and Other Intentional Torts Download SESSION 3A: Cyber: Don't Let the Bytes Bite You — Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in the Digital Age Download SESSION 3B: Cyber: One Step Ahead — The Evolving Nature of Wire Transfer Fraud and Business Email Compromis Download SESSION 3C: EPL: Minimizing the Exposure Created by Cutting-Edge Employment Issues Download SESSION 3D: Professional Liability: The Expanding Liability of A&E Professionals and Risk Shifting in Design-Build Download SESSION 3E: Professional Liability: The Unauthorized Practice of Law — Jeopardy Style Download SESSION 4A: D&O/Cyber: Data Breaches — Essential Knowledge for Corporate Counsel to Effectively Advise the Board Download SESSION 4B: Med Mal: Putting out the Fires — Mediation Strategies and Tactics for Aging Services Claims Download SESSION 4C: Professional Liability/Cyber: Hidden Cyber Risks That Will Consume Professionals by 2020 Download SESSION 4D: Professional Liability: Alexa — Draft a Motion for Summary Judgment Download SESSION 4E: Professional Liability: Pragmatic Issues on Settlement Versus Trial for Legal Malpractice Cases Download SESSION 5A: Cyber: Torts of the Future — Evolving Trends in Cyber Claims Download SESSION 5B: Professional Liability: Dealing with Issues in a High Exposure Multi-Party Litigation Concerning Catastrophic Events or Mega Projects Download SESSION 5C: Professional Liability: The New Frontier for Accountant Liability in the Age of Cyber Crimes Download - Keynote Speaker
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2019 CLM Cyber, Management and Professional Liability Conference
Opening Session with Keynote Speaker Andrew Fastow
Despite today’s more regulated and enlightened business environment, we continue to witness “Enron-esque” failures of corporate governance. Andrew Fastow, Enron’s former CFO, will make observations about how the ambiguity and complexity of laws and regulations breeds opportunity for problematic decisions and will discuss what questions corporate directors, management, attorneys, and accountants should ask in order to ensure that their companies not only follow the rules, but uphold the principles behind them.
Premiere Session I - Danger Zone: Heightened Duties for Professionals Representing Companies in the Zone of Insolvency
- Speakers:
Lisa Lipkin, Berkley Select
Kimberly Rients Blair, Wilson Elser
Katharine Valvano, Hartford Global Specialty
Meghan Welch, AM Trust North America
Whether a company is insolvent or not can have significant implications and raise a host of issues for a board of directors, management and their advisors to consider. For example, if a company is insolvent, or is in the "zone of insolvency," it is generally accepted that the fiduciary duty a board of directors ordinarily owes to shareholders and the corporation itself can expand to consider the interest of creditors. (In a solvent corporation, creditors are left to rely on contractual rights.) Also, in an insolvency situation, some courts have held that the protection of the business judgment rule does not apply to the extent it would to a financially healthy enterprise, utilizing a theory that the assets of an insolvent corporation are impressed with a trust for the benefit of creditors and shareholders, and therefore the appropriate standard a court will use in reviewing a corporate action is one of "entire fairness." Professionals offering advice to companies within the “zone of insolvency”, including lawyers, accountants, lenders, and turn around specialists have to avoid various pitfalls in preventing aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty claims and potentially contributing to the deepening insolvency of the company.
Back to topSession 1 - Cyber: Cyber Insurance Coverage – Where We are and Where We May be Going!
- Speakers:
Christopher Liu, AIG
Gary Mozer, Shiseido Americas Corporation
Richard Reiter, Self Employed
Aarti Soni, McGriff
Ayesha West, Everest
Cyber policies cover a myriad of claims, including breach response, cyber, media and technology claims, crime, regulatory, and potentially much more. The continued evolution of the technological revolution may continue to expand the scope of risks associated with cyber policies. Industry experts will discuss coverage options currently available under cyber policies and what risks future policies may cover.
Back to topSession 1 - EPL/DandO: Professional, DandO and EPL Issues Relating to Mass Shootings Inside Companies, Churches, Schools and Public Areas
- Speakers:
Michelle Arbitrio, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP
Rose Charles, Sompo International Insurance
Matthew Rabin, Arch Insurance Group Inc.
Bob Titus, Risk Analytics, LLC
Mass shootings present potential risks to board members, executives, insurers, brokers, and resolution specialists who must all work to stay ahead of the preventative and responsive curve when a mass shooting occurs. Many different types of claims arise from these events that touch on insured risks covered by employment, professional, and directors & officers liability policies. This panel will provide pragmatic discussions and take-aways for preparation, response and resolution of claims relating to mass shootings from the perspectives of claims analysts and defense counsel with experience in employment, professional, and directors & officers liability matters.
Back to topSession 1 - Management Liability: Girl on Fire: The Price of Pursuing the Truth in the #MeToo World
- Speakers:
Kelly Hopper Moore, Liberty Mutual
Michael Mazurczak, Melick & Porter, LLP
Kelly Waters, Unknown
A number of recent movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp seek justice and equality for all. While these movements have exposed the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, there is more than meets the eye. What is now shocking is not just the atrocity of the number or frequency of sexual harassment cases, but the incredible personal cost of pursuing the truth. The panel will discuss recent cases (including actor Geoffrey Rush’s odd intimacies with actress Yael Stone and the rape of Katie Brennan, the chief of staff at the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency by Albert J. Alvarez, NJ Governor Murphy’s campaign’s director) that have forced women to expose their personal matters in the harshest of public and critical forums. These private matters have become public invasions. When not taken seriously, women may file suit or tell their story to the media. Many harassers and/or companies do not feel it is a priority to address the issue of sexual assault until it affects them. The panel will discuss the implications of going public, including emotional consequences, the legal and financial quagmire, as well as, the impact of being disbelieved, discredited or socially outcast akin to setting oneself on fire.
Back to topSession 1 - Med Mal: Telemedicine – The Cryptocurrency of Professional Liability
- Speakers:
Michael DePetrillo, Ochsner Health System
David Hilton, Self Employed
Mindy Nunez Duffourc, Self Employed
Jennifer Schoenthal, Beazley
Zoya Weisensel, Western Litigation
This panel will demystify the concepts of telemedicine, telehealth, eHealth, and mHealth to discuss how technology is transforming the healthcare delivery and medical liability and insurance systems. Our panelists will discuss the trends, benefits, and risks of high-tech healthcare. We will tackle issues such as whether interactions between healthcare providers and e-health users create a doctor-patient relationship, whether mHealth apps are medical devices or products, the benefits and risks of electronic data aggregation and whether data security risks are covered in professional liability policies, how to handle choice-of-law and venue selection in cross-border telemedicine, and more. We will look at case studies and policy language to dissect some of these issues on the ground level. The panel will introduce a legal design thinking exercise as a take-home tool for discovering new approaches and solutions to the challenges that eHealth and telemedicine inject into medical malpractice claims and litigation.
Back to topSession 1 - Professional Liability: Actions/Inactions of Professionals During Catastrophic Events Can Lead to Liability
- Speakers:
Todd Arno, AXIS Specialty US Services, Inc.
Lisa Black, Black Marjieh & Sanford LLP
Margaret Donnell, Self Employed
Gary Strong, Gfeller Laurie LLP
Sometimes events occur like the California wildfires or significant earthquakes where professionals could have liability outside the scope of their professional services that they enter into during or after the catastrophe occurs. A professional’s interest in responsibility is not solely in preventing the root or proximal cause of the catastrophe but it also has to do with the standard of care as to once the catastrophe has occurred. This could apply to design professionals, insurance brokers, doctors, lawyers among others who are hired to make all predicted or unpredicted catastrophes are covered.
Back to topSession 2 - Cyber: The Challenge Ahead — Cyber Pricing, Modeling and Reserving
- Speakers:
Elizabeth Dwyer, Rhode Island Insurance Division
Richard Fidei , Greenberg Traurig LLP
Robert Parisi, Marsh
Matthew Prevost, Chubb
This session will focus on differing approaches to pricing, underwriting, modeling and reserving of cyber risk. Hacking attempts occur daily at a rapid-fire pace (one government agency who was later breached said that they see greater than 10 million attempts per month). The impact of cybercrime is expected to reach $6 trillion by 2021 with current spending paling in comparison at approximately $96.3 billion and the threat of systemic cyber risk like cloud service failure could cost society billions. Cyber attackers are becoming more sophisticated and new vulnerabilities continue to emerge – insurance carriers must do the same and develop new approaches for understanding the likelihood and impact of cyber risk.
Back to topSession 2 - Cyber: Well, It’s Too Late Now — Being Properly Prepared for a Data Breach
- Speakers:
Dale Coddington, ProNet Group, Inc.
Kimberly DeMarino, ESIS
Richard Gatz, Arch Insurance Group Inc.
Sean Hoar, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP
Preparing for a data breach can be a daunting task. Many organizations today do not have an accurate picture of all of their computer systems, the types of data that may be stored, or how they are all networked together. Organizations must be willing to invest the time and resources required to be properly prepared when a data breach event takes place, because in today’s world, it really is when and not if. This panel discussion will present case studies and examine how an organization can properly prepare for a breach event.
Back to topSession 2 - EPL: Navigating the Weeds in the Workplace — State Disability Laws and Medical Marijuana
- Speakers:
Dove Burns, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell and Hippel LLP
Kristine D'Amato, Crum & Forster
Jacqueline Gallagher, O'Hagan Meyer PLLC
Carrie Graziani, The Hanover Insurance Group
Edward J. Ryan, Starr Indemnity & Liability Company
Thirty-two states have legalized medical marijuana and several others now permit recreational marijuana. Employers and claims professionals face new challenges in determining how to accommodate individuals who use medical marijuana and narcotics. Savvy plaintiff’s lawyers are filing failure to accommodate claims under state disability discrimination statutes. Claims professionals and practitioners must understand the interplay between a state’s disability discrimination law and a state’s medical marijuana law, along with any off-duty conduct statutes that may exist. The medical marijuana statutes differ greatly by state. This panel will provide a broad perspective on how to assess these types of claims and offer best practices for avoiding them in the first place.
Session 2 - Legal Liability: Avoiding Malpractice and Bad Faith in an Electronic World
- Speakers:
Lorrie Leonard, Allianz Commerical
Jeffrey R. Neidle, AIG
Kim Noble, Applied Financial Lines
Brandon Story, James River Insurance Company
Kathryn Whitlock, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC (MGC)
Claims handlers and lawyers face many pitfalls and perils related to working in an electronic world. We have electronic document collection that collects too much or not enough; inadvertent production and inadvertent withholding, either of which can be related to sheer volume; misdirected e-mail because of a “reply all” or auto-populate; informal chatter via e-mail; attaching a draft to an e-mail; incompletely scrubbed template (perhaps sharing HIPAA protected information); data shared via a “shoulder surfer”—and the list goes on.
This panel addresses the various risks, discuss different laws and rules that govern the conduct of claims handler and/or lawyers, actual cases in which alleged failure to protect against the risk resulted in a claim, and suggest ways that claims handlers and lawyers can reduce their own risk of having a claim asserted against them or their insured/client because of a contended or actual electronic error.
Session 2 - Med Mal: One Bad Apple — Navigating Sexual Battery and Other Intentional Torts
- Speakers:
Constance Endelicato, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP
David Prisco, CARE RRG, Inc.
Jasmina Richter, Sanders & Parks, P.C.
Jaynie Spies, Network Adjusters, Inc.
Intentional tort claims are flooding our news outlets with tales of the horrific actions of doctors. These include instances of sexual abuse during medical exams of athletes and a surgeon dubbed as “Dr. Death” whose intentional acts have taken lives and left many permanently injured. The question remains whether these tales affect the state of litigation involving lesser profile and alleged isolated acts of intentional torts. The current trends demonstrate that what may appear to be a professional negligence case involving alleged unwanted sexual advances by a physician toward a patient, or the alleged unconsented surgical procedure, are now spiraling into complex actions riddled with licensing and accreditation issues involving Medical Board and criminal investigation. These cases can escalate risk exposure and result in a devastating impact on the insureds’ practice. While there are many instances of credible claims there are also instances of false claims. This session will address how one bad claim can spiral into the professional, as well as, personal detriment of the provider. Early analysis of the credibility of the claim, determination of coverage, damage control strategies, ethical obligations, as well as, procedural issues will be addressed to aid in navigating through this daunting process.
Back to topSession 3 - Cyber: Don't Let the Bytes Bite You — Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in the Digital Age
- Speakers:
Christopher Butler, Bowhead Specialty Underwriters, Inc.
Dion Cominos, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Larry Goanos, Andros Risk Services
Teresa Milano, Woodruff Sawyer
This session will delve into the overlay between traditional ethical perils and technology and provide an insightful exploration of both problems and solutions in this arena. The panel will address inadvertent disclosures during e-discovery; obtaining personal information from wearables and related personal devices; the propriety of recording conversations; hazards of utilizing cloud-based sites; dangers from metadata and other embedded phenomena; use of social media under false pretexts to gather information regarding parties, witnesses and jurors; and outright spying.
Back to topSession 3 - Cyber: One Step Ahead — The Evolving Nature of Wire Transfer Fraud and Business Email Compromise
- Speakers:
Amy Diamond, FBI
Aisling Jumper, Fair American Insurance and Reinsurance Company
Keith Novak, Kroll
Marissa Olsen, Aspen Insurance
Karen Painter Randall, Unknown
Wire fraud is increasingly affecting attorneys and other professionals. In this session, we will examine wire fraud from a number of vantage points, including the many different examples of wire fraud, how it is evolving, and steps that professionals like lawyers and real estate professionals can take to better protect themselves. Our panel will include prominent professionals in the fields of law, cyber security and data privacy, as well as a special agent with the FBI responsible for investigating criminal cyber-attacks targeting the financial sector. In addition, we will address the growing threat of business email compromise and steps professionals can take to decrease this threat. We’ll also discuss the types of insurance available, and whether professional liability policies will cover such losses or if professionals should research and purchase specific cyber policies.
Back to topSession 3 - EPL: Minimizing the Exposure Created by Cutting-Edge Employment Issues
- Speakers:
Joseph Gagliardo, Laner Muchin
Laura Lapidus, CNA Insurance
Jennifer Weinstein, Skyward Specialty Insurance
Laura Zaroski, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Employers are faced with many new and emerging employment issues. Issues such as the opioid overdose crisis, PTSD, active shooter situations, employer use of biometric information, and liability for acts of third parties are all gaining new ground in the employment arena. In response, the need for appropriate and immediate crisis management has become critical in the wake of these emerging risks. This session will assist in exploring and understanding the effects these issues are having on employers' businesses, operations, and the potential legal liability that may result. By examining recent research and case studies and encouraging audience deliberation over hypothetical fact patterns, this session will provide an engaging insight into the effects these emerging employment issues may have on the workplace, as well as liability.
Back to topSession 3 - Professional Liability: The Expanding Liability of AandE Professionals and Risk Shifting in Design-Build Projects
- Speakers:
Sarah Couillard, Markel Service, Incorporated
Michelle Epstein, Parsons Corp.
Jacqueline Pons-Bunney, Weil & Drage, APC
Anthony Terranova, QBE Insurance
Anthony Tessitore, Tressler, LLP
This panel explores practical considerations and pitfalls in the drafting and use of design-build contracts and the risk-shifting mechanisms incorporated in those documents. It will also examine recent developments in efforts to expand the liability of architects and engineers in design-build projects including recent cases and changes in the law with respect to fiduciary duty claims against design professionals. The session will also cover trends in the types of claims being made against design professionals and the complications that arise, including trending issues to insurance coverage claims being made by architects and engineers. These issues will be explored from the perspectives of insurance claims professionals, defense and coverage counsel, and in-house litigation counsel.
Back to topSession 3 - Professional Liability: The Unauthorized Practice of Law — Jeopardy Style
- Speakers:
Deborah Bjes, Swiss Re
Crystal Ivy, AmTrust Group
Erin McCartney, Attorney Protective
William Oberts, Oberts Galasso Law Group
James Strong, ProAssurance Corporation
When can an attorney practice and/or provide legal advice when he or she is not admitted into a given jurisdiction? What steps must be taken to gain admission? Does it matter if the attorney works for a private firm or is in-house counsel? We will explore the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and other applicable statutes in addressing these issues. This program will be presented in a Jeopardy style format with a Who Wants to be a Millionaire twist. Each presenter contestant will choose pertinent categories from an interactive Jeopardy board and provide questions to the answers. Contestants will also have the opportunity to poll the audience or phone an audience member.
Back to topSession 4 - DandO/Cyber: Data Breaches — Essential Knowledge for Corporate Counsel to Effectively Advise the Board
- Speakers:
Daniel Garrie, JAMS
Matthew McCabe, Marsh
Douglas Meal, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Anne Winner, Chubb
The panel will address the potential financial and reputational risks that security and data breach issues pose, as well as the importance of educating and advising boards of directors and CEOs on cybersecurity risks and liability issues. Speakers will survey the current cyber regulatory landscape, including recent legislation in California, guidance from SEC, and ending federal legislation. It also examines what the board of directors of a company needs to know about the cyber security preparedness of their company in order to both protect from a wide-scale incident and mitigate the damage in the case of a breach. Panelists will discuss the importance of clear notification and governance in cyber security.
Session 4 - Med Mal: Putting out the Fires — Mediation Strategies and Tactics for Aging Services Claims
- Speakers:
Sandra Bevans, MedPro Group
Lindsay Boyd, Hiscox
James Connors, Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP
Alona Croteau, Berkley Management Protection
Joe Spinola, Resolute Systems LLC
Session 4 - Professional Liability/Cyber: Hidden Cyber Risks That Will Consume Professionals by 2020
- Speakers:
Sarah Courtman, Starr Adjustment Services, Inc.
Monique Ferraro, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company
Ilana Hanau, Segal McCambridge
Michael Hinchen, Self Employed
Rinat B. Klier Erlich, Zelms Erlich & Mack
The session addresses hidden cyber risks that we expect to see in near future for professionals. The panel will discuss the current risks the various types of professionals are expected to be battling with (real estate, design, lawyers and insurance professionals), the role of compliance in battling these risks, and the grappling with greater frequency and severity of incidents. The session will touch on data breaches, business interruption, intellectual property theft and cyber-extortion. It will explore more risk management, changes in managing the business, better ways to communicate, and how to best manage the claims, defend them and the effect on insurance coverage.
Back to topSession 4 - Professional Liability: Alexa — Draft a Motion for Summary Judgment
- Speakers:
Kimberly Johnston, Verisk
Daniel McCune, Childs McCune LLC
Frances O'Meara, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP
David Rock, Trium Cyber
Legal and ethical mandates now require that professionals be competent in technology. The ABA recently updated its Model Rules of Professional Responsibility to include keeping abreast of benefits and risks associated with relevant technology. But what is enough and what is too much? This panel will explore the ethical obligations for professionals in understanding technology and the use of AI or technology in our practices.
Back to topSession 4 - Professional Liability: Pragmatic Issues on Settlement Versus Trial for Legal Malpractice Cases
- Speakers:
Philip Grennan, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP
Reed Millsaps, DWF Claims
Cristina Yannucci, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP
Jessica Zimmerman (dup), Sedgwick
In addition to the usual issues of liability and damages involved in the defense of any legal malpractice lawsuit, there are also some unique pragmatic issues that need to be addressed — specifically, the decision to defend through trial or potentially move towards a settlement can cause tension between the defendant insured attorney and the carrier. Often the carrier and the attorney client view the risks involved in a case quite differently. Both the carrier and the retained defense counsel need to be cognizant of these differences and deal with them properly. For instance, while the defendant insured attorney may want to aggressively defend the case and make it as difficult as possible for the plaintiff and his or her attorney, as facts are developed, the carrier and the retained defense counsel may recognize significant risks in the case. Dealing with these differing perspectives can be difficult. If one does proceed to trial and a bad result occurs, the fallout from the trial result can also raise issues, such as why the poor result occurred and/or should the verdict be appealed. This session will address those pragmatic concerns between the parties involved in the defense of a legal malpractice lawsuit.
Premiere Session II - New Generation of Wearables and Developments in Legal Landscape Governing Biometric Information
- Speakers:
Robert DiRico, ARC Excess and Surplus, LLC
Jennifer Lee, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP
Shiraz Saeed, Arch Insurance Group Inc.
David Standish, Ironshore Insurance Company
The newer generation of wearable devices are collecting far more sophisticated data from users than its counterparts in the late 2000s when the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act and Texas Biometric Privacy Law were passed. For example, some are now equipped with ECG sensors, blurring the line between wearables and legitimate medical devices.
This panel will explore the collection and retention of biometric and health data through wearable devices and the recent developments in federal and state privacy statutes. Also under discussion is the current landscape of wearable technology, the types of biometric and health data collected by these devices, and statutes governing the collection, retention, and disclosure of such data, including HIPAA, California Consumer Privacy Act, GDPR, and other applicable privacy laws.
Session 5 - Cyber: Torts of the Future — Evolving Trends in Cyber Claims
- Speakers:
Bridget Choi, Booz Allen Hamilton
Joe DePaul, IronGate
Anthony Dolce, The Hartford
Dianna McCarthy, Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP
The world of cyber claims continues to evolve with threats to insureds constantly changing. Various strains of ransomware and other forms of malware are becoming more virulent leading to more severe claims including business interruption losses. Business email compromise, phishing, and DDoS attacks continue to plague companies as well. With the advent of augmented intelligence and robotics, the common tort and product liability landscape is changing and the panel will discuss recent cases and decisions where we see things progressing. The discussion will also include how cyber coverage continues to develop to meet the needs of insureds in this rapidly changing environment and some of the endorsements being considered and used. There will be exploration on how cyber policies frequently interact with other coverages including Tech E&O, Media, Property, CGL Crime and other insurance products.
Back to topSession 5 - Professional Liability: Dealing with Issues in a High Exposure Multi-Party Litigation Concerning Catastrophic Events or Mega Projects
- Speakers:
Jorge Cruz, Daniels Rodriguez Berkeley Daniels & Cruz, PA
Donna Hunt, Ironshore Insurance Company
Amanda Sirk, CNA Insurance
Wendy Testa, Wilson Elser
The session will discuss high exposure multi-party litigation due to catastrophic events, such as construction collapses; or mega projects, such as airports, roadways, and stadiums. The discussion will include how to deal with declining limit policies while the exposure exceeds the policy limits; who and when a mediator is selected and how does that affect settlement; how to deal with the client's fears and emotions; and, if the exposure is greater than all available limits does the defense strategy change?
Back to topSession 5 - Professional Liability: The New Frontier for Accountant Liability in the Age of Cyber Crimes
- Speakers:
David Cole, Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP
Nick Graf, CNA Insurance
Timothy Shea, Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP
Stan Sterna, Aon
The session will include a review of federal and state cyber regulations applicable to CPA firms regarding data security requirements and breach reporting. We will also discuss what kind of cyber coverage or policies are available to CPA firms. The panel will engage the pariticipants in a discussion of claim exposure and the applicable standard of care arising from claims by firm clients for firm data breaches, derivative and investor claims arising from a data breach of a firm client, professional negligence claims by data breach victims, and state and federal enforcement actions. Finally, the panel will identify and review educational resources and best practice guides applicable to CPA firms to help ensure data security compliance and to help avoid third party claims.
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