Schedule/Sessions
SESSION 1 - Utilizing Practical Client/Counsel Collaboration to Achieve Cost Efficient Early Resolution Goals
- Speakers:
Cynthia Heaney, GB Specialty (Division of Gallagher Bassett)
Timothy James, Self Employed
Patrick M. Roche, Collins, Roche, Utley & Garner, LLC
John Sparks, Fowler Hirtzel McNulty & Spaulding, LLP
Daniel Winkler, Westfield Insurance
The New Normal for both claim professionals and lawyers involves objective data measurement. Terms like cycle time, budget burn, guideline compliance and total case cost are now performance measurements for file handlers. This interactive presentation will discuss the current landscape, including how we got here….and where we are going. Most importantly, experienced practitioners from claims and law firms will provide concrete examples of how to succeed under the new criteria. From aggressive mediation, to “batting out of order” discovery and shared risk considerations, the panel will discuss practical steps for resolution professionals and outside counsel to resolve matters fairly and promptly.
Back to topSESSION 2 - The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Insurance Industry, Litigation and Medicare: What Does the Future Hold?
- Speakers:
Jack Hipp, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty
Caryn Lilling, Mauro Lilling Naparty
Jessica Smythe, ISO Claims Partners
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) in 2010, the property casualty industry has debated and attempted to forecast the impact of this controversial legislation. Will the industry become the target of significant additional cost shifting by hospitals, physicians and other medical care providers? Will we see significant shifting of claims from health to property casualty insurance systems? What are the practical considerations for the claims practitioner? In addition, how does the ACA change the way future damage awards are calculated? Are plaintiffs’ right to recover future medical awards limited by ACA requirements? With respect to claim settlement, how do the anti-fraud provisions of the ACA change Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSP) compliance and government enforcement? All of these topics will be explored in this interactive presentation, and the audience will walk away with a greater understanding of how the ACA will impact/has impacted the insurance industry, litigation and MSP compliance.
SESSION 3 - Balancing the Interests of Multiple Carriers in Time on Risk Cases
- Speakers:
Issy Bustamante, Self Employed
Dawn Krigstin, Envoy Specialty LLC
Laurie Sherwood, Walsworth - WFBM, LLP
Litigation that involves multiple-year exposure periods (often referred to as "long-tail claims") may implicate multiple insurance policies, resulting in multiple insurance carriers possibly agreeing to provide a defense and/or indemnity. Counsel retained to defend these claims are often presented with the challenge of complying with different guidelines, policies, and personalities while providing an effective defense for the insured. When handled well, relationships between insurance carriers and defense counsel can flourish and opportunities for future business can abound.
The panelists in this session include carrier representatives, insurance brokers, and senior defense counsel who will address the most common issues that arise and will provide effective advice and strategies for handling the same.
Keynote - Ready, Aim, Hire!
The pace of change in the world around us is at an all-time high and it’s only getting faster. With many emerging trends in technology, innovation, consumer expectations and the law, remaining status quo is simply not an option. Glenn Shapiro joins us to talk about how claims organizations and claim professionals must get ready by raising their level of awareness of trends that will impact the industry, build strategies aimed at where things are headed, and implementing new approaches to hiring and mobilizing the workforce.
Back to topSESSION 4 - Dealing with Defense Counsel - Mechanisms to Improve that Important Relationship
- Speakers:
Robert Biagi, The Hartford
Ron Goldstein, Aon
Aisling Jumper, Fair American Insurance and Reinsurance Company
Elizabeth Lorell, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
Luigi Spadafora, Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP
This program will review and discuss best practices in dealing with outside defense counsel including: the carrier’s perspective and the law firm’s perspective on what works best and what does not. We will then move on to the appointment of panel counsel, coverage counsel and mechanisms to improve the process. The panel will discuss how counsel is appointed and how carriers develop and maintain their panel counsel lists. A portion of the presentation will include discussions/debate on creative mechanisms to improve relationships by better budgeting, application of litigation management guidelines billing formats and enhancing communication between defense counsel and the insurance carriers. We will also discuss alternative fee arrangements and how these have worked to control litigation costs and ensure long term partnering between the carrier and defense counsel. We will also touch on the impact of bad faith litigation and the competing legal versus business related interests that inevitably arise in coverage matters. We will attack difficult issues such as: who controls the defense; conflict issues; the tripartite relationship and mechanisms to avoid bad faith allegations.
SESSION 5 - The 2015 CLM National Management Study - Highlights and Observations
- Speakers:
Joseph Mannion, Chubb
Hedy Linette Ranieri, Berkley Technology Underwriters
Taylor Smith, Suite 200 Solutions
Julianne Splain, Self Employed
With nearly 30,000 members and fellows, the CLM is the industry’s leading trade association for litigation and claims professionals. This Study, like all CLM activities, is designed to promote and further the highest standards of claims and litigation management. The Study’s approximately 80 questions are designed to capture the “State of the Union” in the litigation management industry, exploring how litigation executives are deploying resources, thinking about law firm performance, using staff counsel operations (when applicable), addressing cost and quality issues, and facing new industry challenges.
Audience members will gain a greater understanding for industry trends, learn what initiatives industry executives are focused on for 2015, and be able to identify emerging areas of value and importance to their colleagues and customers.
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