Kevin E. Wolff, Esq. is a shareholder of the firm of Kinney, Lisovicz, Reilly & Wolff, PC., located in Parsippany, New Jersey and New York, New York. He is admitted to practice in NJ and NY.  His practice concentrates in the areas of insurance and reinsurance coverage, including general liability, property, environmental, employment, errors and omissions, directors and officers, marine, technology matters.  Kevin’s insurance and reinsurance practice is limited to the representation of insurers and reinsurers.  He also counsels and advises clients on the drafting of policy language, contracts and agreements, claims handling, and represents parties in commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in handling bad faith claims.  Kevin is a member of several organizations, including CLM, and is active in its Northern New Jersey Chapter.  Kevin has been recognized as a Band 1 coverage attorney by Chambers USA for 2018. 
 

Jacquelyn Beatty, a CLM Co-Chair for Washington State, is a shareholder with the Seattle, Washington firm Karr Tuttle Campbell, where she chairs the Insurance and Appellate Practice groups. She has litigated insurance coverage and bad faith cases on behalf of insurers, corporations, and government entities for over twenty five years. Her experience also includes the defense of construction defect, toxic tort, professional malpractice and employment practice matters, and general commercial litigation. She graduated from the University Of Washington School Of Law with Honors in 1987 and holds undergraduate degrees from Brown University and Columbia University School of Nursing. She earned her CPCU and ARM designations in 2003 and 2004, and her CLMP designation in 2012.  In 2010, 2011, and 2013 she was voted one of Washington’s Top Fifty Women Attorneys. Ms. Beatty has successfully represented insurers in published and unpublished cases. She is Martindale Hubbell AV Pre-eminent rated.

Wendi is Vice President of Claims Operations and Quality Control at OneBeacon Professional Insurance. She is a graduate of Ithaca College (B.A., 1994) and University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D., 1998). Prior to joining OneBeacon Professional Insurance, she managed the Employment Practices Liability Claims Unit at Lexington Insurance Company in Boston, Massachusetts from 2004 through 2009. Prior to joining Lexington, Ms. Boyden was in private practice for six years as a labor and employment attorney in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Paul Callahan is a Partner with the Law Offices of Brown and Kelly, LLP located in Buffalo, New York where he concentrates his practice on insurance coverage analysis and litigation. His work extends to the representation of insurance companies in no-fault and uninsured/underinsured motorists related matters. He also assists the special investigation units of insurance companies in the investigation and evaluation of first party claims. He obtained his undergraduate and legal degrees from the University at Buffalo and was a founding member of The Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal. He also served as the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief. Admitted to practice in the Courts of the State of New York and the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, Mr. Callahan has lectured and published materials on insurance coverage-related matters for the New York State and American Bar Associations. He is also the author of the chapter entitled “Insurer’s Avoidance of Policy Obligations for Material Misrepresentations” as found in Insurance Law Practice published by the New York State Bar Association.

Beth Zaro Green is the Vice President of Claims Senior Counsel for Berkley Insurance Company and serves as Director of Claims Litigation Management for W.R. Berkley Corporation. . Beth is responsible for providing litigation oversight for high exposure complex claims, bad faith and coverage litigation across select Berkley companies which focus on Professional Liability. She also manages the WRBC enterprise-wide defense counsel panel.

She is a member of the AAA Roster of Neutrals for Commercial Arbitration.

Prior to joining W. R. Berkley Corporation, she was Senior Vice President and Managing Attorney of AIG's Litigation Management, Professional Errors & Omissions and Coverage Departments. There she established their centralized in-house law office, which managed the defense of global bad faith and other extra contractual litigation. She also managed the in-house coverage law office which litigated coverage matters in New York and New Jersey. Previously she was in private practice as a trial lawyer admitted in New York and New Jersey after completing a judicial clerkship in New Jersey.
 

Susan Kaufman was previously employed at Travelers Insurance Company for over 20 years, most recently as a Director in the Claim Legal Department. In that role she was responsible for analyzing and addressing Bad Faith allegations against the company relative to Personal Lines business in Florida. Additionally, she was responsible for analyzing and resolving coverage issues. Ms. Kaufman also created numerous Continuing Education courses and provided invaluable training to the claims staff. This included many courses on Good Faith Claims Handling, Mediation Strategies, various coverage issues such as Uninsured Motorist coverage. Ms. Kaufman is a Florida Supreme Court appointed County Court Mediator. She is also a certified instructor for Continuing Education credits in the State of Florida, and she has obtained her certification as both a Commercial Lines Coverage Specialist and Personal Lines Coverage Specialist. Susan obtained her degree in Business from the University of Florida. She is a native of South Carolina, and a longtime resident of the South Florida area.

Peter Klee's focus is defending insurance companies and their affiliates that are sued in individual actions and class actions for bad faith, fraud, unfair competition and other torts. He has handled over 1,000 such cases throughout the country over the past 25 years. His client list includes most of the major insurance carriers doing business in California, including Allstate, State Farm, Fireman's Fund, MetLife, Infinity, St. Paul-Travelers, and the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Mr. Klee has handled numerous jury trials in both state and federal court. No client represented in trial by Mr. Klee has ever been held liable for breach of insurance contract, bad faith or any other tort. Mr. Klee is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of ABOTA.. Mr. Klee has also been recognized as one of California's Top 100 Attorneys by the Daily Journal.
Mr. Klee is also a frequent lecturer on insurance issues, and he has conducted training seminars for insurance organizations as well as lawyers.
Mr. Klee serves on the firm's Board of Directors.
Recognition
• Chambers USA Ranking - 2012: Band 3, 2011: Band 3, 2010: Band 3, 2009: Band 4 - Insurance, Insurer Firms, California
• Martindale-Hubbell® AV Rating
• Fellow, American College of Trial
• Associate, American Board of Trial Advocates
• Recognized as one of the Daily Journal's "Top 10 Leading Rainmakers - 2009"
• Recognized as one of California's "Top 100 Attorneys" by the Daily Journal in 2007
• Co-Counsel for Du v. Deerbrook Insurance Co. - Selected by the Daily Journal as one of the "Top Verdicts of 2010."
• One of the 500 lawyers in America selected as “New Stars” for 2006 by Lawdragon
• Best Lawyers in America® - (Insurance Law)
• Super Lawyers: Corporate Counsel - (Insurance Coverage)
• Super Lawyers: Business Edition - (Insurance Coverage)
• San Diego Super Lawyers - (Insurance Coverage)
• Top 50 San Diego Super Lawyers -

Clarence E. “CEM” Martin, III is a Shareholder at Martin & Seibert, L.C. and is the third generation of his family to be a member of the firm. His Grandfather, Clarence E. Martin, President of the American Bar Association in 1932-33, founded the firm in 1908.

Mr. Martin practices law in the areas of bad faith, insurance coverage, insurance defense litigation, electric utility litigation, railroad defense litigation (FELA), products liability, environmental, mass tort, class action and asbestos defense litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He also lobbies on various issues, including insurance, litigation and civil justice reform.

Mr. Martin was an Assistant Counsel to the then Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee (now Energy and Commerce Committee) of the U.S. House of Representatives and Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He was Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1976-82 where, among others, he chaired the Insurance Committee. He is a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the U S Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and also served as President of the WV Bar Association.

Mr. Martin has taken leadership roles in a number of professional and business organizations in West Virginia and beyond. He has served as Chair of the West Virginia Bar Association and the West Virginia State Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and served served on its National Board of Directors.  Mr. Martin has been selected as a Super Lawyer, named to Best Lawyers in America and selected by Corporate Lawyers as one of the Top Lawyers in the US. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a Fellow of the West Virginia Bar Foundation. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Shepherd University and has written and lectured extensively on litigation and insurance issues.  Mr. Martin is a proud Member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance.

Jeffrey R. Neidle, Esq. is Assistant Vice President, Professional Liability, at AIG where he manages a group handling severity Managed Care, Accountants, Realtors, EPL and D&O matters.  Mr. Neidle leverages over 25 years’ experience as both private counsel and an insurance executive. Formerly, Mr. Neidle served as Vice President of Professional Liability Claims at the OneBeacon Group of Insurance Companies where he was responsible for Architects & Engineers, Contractors, Lawyers, Realtors, Insurance Agents and Cyber Products. Mr. Neidle has also held leadership positions at CNA, Chubb and The Hartford where he was responsible for a range of professional liability, management liability and Directors and Officers claims. Prior to joining Chubb, he was in private practice in both Connecticut and Michigan where he specialized in civil litigation including employment defense, professional liability defense, coverage litigation and school law. He received his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA, a Master's Degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from The University of Connecticut. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

David M. O’Connor of O'Connor & Associates, LLC, an AV-rated six-lawyer Boston firm, defends claims against policyholders and represents carriers in coverage and unfair claims practices litigation. Mr. O’Connor is recognized in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and has been  a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in mulitple practice categories. Mr. O'Connor regularly presents to industry groups on contractual risk transfer; insurance coverage; extra-contractual exposures; and defending unpopular corporate targets.  He obtained a B.A. from Georgetown University and is a cum laude graduate of Boston College Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the B.C. Environmental Law Review. He is admitted in Massachusetts; the  U.S. District Court, Districts of Massachusetts, Connecticut and  Arizona; and the  U.S. Court of Appeals, First and Ninth Circuits.

Charlie O’Connor is Senior Vice President & Manager, Commercial Market Liability Claims, for the Liberty Mutual Group. As such, Charlie has overall responsibility for defining and delivering Liberty’s Commercial Market claim services countrywide for auto and general liability customers. Previously, Charlie was the Vice President & Manager of Middle Market Liability Claims and Assistant Vice President and Manager, Liability Claims, in the Liberty Mutual Group’s Examining Unit in Dover, NH. There he was responsible for oversight, management and evaluation of Liberty Mutual’s highest exposure liability claims for commercial market business. Prior to these positions, Mr. O’Connor served in various legal and claims management positions including trial counsel & attorney of record in an active Long Island, New York practice. Charlie was also instrumental in the development of litigation management efforts for the Liberty Mutual Group. Mr. O’Connor obtained his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in New York. He is a member of the New York State Bar, the American Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute. 

Mitch is a founding member of Tribler Orpett & Meyer, P.C., in Chicago, which was formed in 1984. His practice is devoted to the defense of professional and general liability claims and to the resolution of insurance and reinsurance disputes. He has represented lawyers and other professionals in various courts across the United States and has been active in litigation, arbitration and other methods of alternative dispute resolution where he has served as both advocate and arbitrator. He has been listed in all editions of Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers and in Who’s Who Legal, Insurance & Reinsurance. He has also been named as an Illinois “Super Lawyer” and to the Illinois Network of Leading Lawyers in recognition of his achievements and professional standing. 
 
Mitch has devoted more than 35 years of service to the American Bar Association, holding numerous leadership positions and organizing and participating in numerous conferences. He recently completed his three-year term on the ABA’s Board of Governors and served for many years on its policy-making body, the House of Delegates. He was the chair of the ABA’s Section Officers Conference, where he represented the approximately 240,000 members of the sections of the American Bar Association. Previously, he served as chair of the ABA’s 30,000 member Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Continuing Education of the Bar. He was also vice chair of the ABA’s Presidential Commission on the Unintended Consequences of the Billable Hour (Justice Stephen G. Breyer, chair).
 
Mitch has also served as a member of various committees and task forces dealing with lawyers’ professional liability and cyber security. He has been a frequent author and speaker on cyber and professional liability topics here in the U.S. and abroad.
 
 

Bill is the head of the Litigation Practice Group in the Corporate Law department of Zurich North America. Bill and his team manage "bad faith" cases as well as non-claim litigation including collection litigation on loss-sensitive policies where insureds attempt to place the adequacy or good faith of claims handling at issue. The group also handles subpoena responses, provides advice on pre-litigation disputes, and provides support to the Claims organization on corporate and underwriting issues arising in coverage litigation. Bill began his legal career as a litigation associate with Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York and then with Dickstein Shapiro & Morin in Washington, D.C. He joined Zurich in 1994. Bill is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.  

Thomas F. Segalla, a founding partner of Goldberg Segalla, is a nationally recognized authority on bad faith, reinsurance, and insurance, and an ARIAS-U.S. certified arbitrator and mediator. Retained as counsel and as a consultant by numerous major insurance carriers and policyholders in more than 40 jurisdictions nationally and internationally, he has also served as an expert witness in more than 100 bad faith, coverage, and extracontractual cases across the country.
 
Tom is the co-author of the renowned insurance law treatise Couch on Insurance 3d and editor of the Reinsurance Professional’s Deskbook, published by Thomson Reuters and the Defense Research Institute (DRI). He currently serves on DRI’s Publications Board and Barrister Task Force and has previously served as chair of DRI’s Insurance Law Committee, chair of its Law Institute, and a member of its Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, and immediate-past president of the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel. An AV Preeminent-rated attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and other publications and organizations for his superior skills and accomplishments across numerous areas of the law, Tom is also the recipient of DRI’s Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Service Award, Best Lawyers in America’s Buffalo Insurance Law “Lawyer of the Year” Award, the Defense Association of New York’s (DANY) James S. Conway Award for Outstanding Service to the Defense Community, and the State University of New York at Buffalo Law Alumni Association’s “Distinguished Alumni Award for Private Practice.”

Dave Zehner is a founding partner of Zehner Trial Consulting. Zehner Trial Consulting is a provider of superior mock trials, focus groups and jury selection services. Zehner Trial Consulting uses the latest research in cognitive theory to design research exercises to test the essential elements of cases and determine what will shape the verdict of the jury. During his career, Dave has consulted on more than 800 cases in 42 states and over 180 venues in all areas of the law, specializing in professional negligence, employment, intellectual property, white collar criminal, capital crimes and complex commercial cases. Dave has also assisted clients in selecting over 120 juries in venues throughout the country. Before becoming a trial consultant, Dave taught high school history for five years and coached the freshman and JV basketball teams. Dave also coached the Academic Decathlon team to three San Diego County championships and one fourth place finish in the state of California. Dave also appeared on Jeopardy!, and his crushing defeat was made even more enjoyable by being called "evil" by Alex Trebek for working as a jury consultant. 

A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in History and International Political Economies, Dave was a University Fellowship recipient while earning his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and ABD status for his PhD in the Public Policy Analysis Program.