Schedule/Sessions
Keynote - Summary Jury Trials and Other Tools for Fast and Efficient Case Resolution
SESSION 1 - Proving Value with Data
- Speakers:
C. Peter Hitson, Carlton Fields
Taylor Smith, Suite 200 Solutions
Vincent Venturella, Wolters Kluwer, ELM Solutions
While general liability policies require insurers to provide policyholders with a defense there is no requirement that they do so with staff counsel rather than panel counsel. This session will explain the data and metrics needed to consistently make a compelling case for the use of staff counsel. Various examples of reporting formats and data collection will be discussed.
SESSION 2 - Client Relations: Personal Lines to Specialty Lines
- Speakers:
Bradley Gibbs, National General Insurance
C. Peter Hitson, Carlton Fields
Matthew Schueler, Chubb
This session will focus on staff counsel’s relationship with policyholders, claim handlers and claim management. Reporting structures, expectations, roles, responsibilities and auditing will all be examined in the context of providing quality representation. The Claims perspective will also be included in this session.
Back to topSESSION 3 - Medicare Compliance 2015: SMART Act Implementation and Legislative Update
This topic will address the current status of the SMART Act implementation and legislative update; and, how these important new changes impact claims handling and design of internal Medicare compliance protocols for companies settling claims with Medicare beneficiaries.
Back to topSESSION 4 - Social Media
- Speakers:
Peter Haviland, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll
Denise Mandi, Selective Insurance Company of America
Twanda Turner-Hawkins, Dematic Corporation
Thaddeus Wilson, State of Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County
The use of social media in the defense of policyholders is becoming as common as its existence in everyday life. This session will focus on how social media is being used in the investigation, evaluation, discovery and trial stages of litigation. Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of information obtained from social networking sites including an analysis of the ethical boundaries that need to be respected by claims professionals and defense counsel.
Back to topSESSION 5 - Staff Counsel Update
- Speakers:
Christopher Dallavo, Chubb
Marillyn Damelio, Nationwide Insurance Company
Katherine Giddings, Akerman LLP
John McGann, AXA XL
Industry experts will provide an update on pending challenges to staff counsel challenges that have arisen in bar proceedings, bad faith actions, employment related lawsuits and declaratory judgment actions.
The session will also focus on ethical issues in the tripartite relationship among insurers, insureds, and insurance defense attorneys, including issues unique to insurance defense staff counsel operations and interaction of attorneys with claims operations. Individual topics will include ethical issues associated with transitioning to the world of electronic documents; how to resolve conflicts of interest that arise during the course of representation including the proper disclosure of naming conventions for staff counsel operations; and protecting the attorney-client privilege in review of bills and audit of files. The session will highlight ways to avoid ethical minefields from the handling attorney’s perspective.
SESSION 6 - Planning for the Future
This session will address the types of programs, initiatives and policies that need to be in place in order to recruit, train, retain and work alongside staff counsel attorneys from different generations. Particular emphasis will be on the generational issues existing among Baby Boomers, Gen X-ers and Millennials.
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