Lance J. Albright is  Vice President of Claims for QBE the Americas.  He has responsibility for management and oversight of the Program Business claims department. He reports directly to the Chief Claims Officer of Program Business. QBE the Americas is a division of QBE Insurance Group Ltd, Australia's largest international general insurance and reinsurance group. It is one of the top 25 insurers and reinsurers worldwide and the 15th largest insurer in the United States.

As Vice President and General Manager, Mr. Albright was responsible for the Legal Solutions Division of Computer Sciences Corporation, the third largest software and IT consulting and services firm in the world.

Prior to joining CSC, Mr. Albright was the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company of America, where he was responsible for the management of Interdepartmental Operations and was a member of Yasuda’s Board of Directors.

He began his insurance career with The Hartford Insurance Company in NYC as a field claims adjuster. He then moved to international insurance with AFIA Worldwide Insurance where he was responsible for international claims. He spent four years at The Home Insurance Company in NYC where he was home office branch claims manager for the Western Region of the United States and Canada.

Mr. Albright received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. He received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Seton Hall University. Mr. Albright holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation.  He also has an Associate in Risk Management (ARM) degree.

He is the current Chairman of the Insurance Federation of New York.  He is on the Board of Directors of the New York City Chapter of CPCU having previously served as the chapter President.

He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel.

He has two daughters, Kristen and Blair.

Ms. Ginamarie Alvino is an Assistant Vice President and Associate General Counsel at RiverStone Claims Management, LLC. In her role at RiverStone, Ms. Alvino manages litigation risks and resolves complex and volatile claims on behalf of the Company and its clients.

An attorney with over 21 years of experience in the insurance industry and private litigation practice, Ms. Alvino directs and oversees various forms of commercial disputes including arbitrations and commercial litigation in courts nationwide involving disputes related to insurance issues arising from environmental, asbestos, excess workers compensation and pharmaceutical risks. Ms. Alvino also counsels her corporate client and has spoken at numerous national conferences on emerging risks, such as climate change, environmental liability, and risk modeling.

Ms. Alvino joined RiverStone in 2002. Prior to joining RiverStone, Ms. Alvino was an attorney at the law firm of Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, New York, specializing in complex insurance coverage litigation. Ms. Alvino received her J.D. degree from St. John’s University School of Law and is a member of the New York State Bar. She also serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association (CICLA).

 

KATHRYN ANBINDER COVARRUBIAS is senior counsel at the Law Offices of Roberta Fitzpatrick, Boston, an in-house insurance counsel for Arbella Insurance Company. Her practice involves providing coverage advice and representing Arbella in insurance coverage and bad faith disputes. Ms. Covarrubias has litigated a variety of coverage issues, including late notice, cooperation, and the intentional acts exclusion. Prior to joining Arbella, Ms. Covarrubias was of counsel at the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. Prior to that, she was a partner at Morrison Mahoney LLC, where she handled insurance defense and insurance coverage cases. Ms. Covarrubias has served as a panelist on several Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education programs and chairs the “Automobile Liability Insurance Update” program. Ms. Covarrubias is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She received her A.B., cum laude, from Wellesley College in 1988 and earned her J.D. from the University of Florida College of Law in 1993.

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. 
 

Adrianne Landry Baumgartner has been a member of Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson since 1978 with a litigation practice in the areas of personal injury and insurance defense. She has tried numerous judge and jury trial representing many personal lines and commercial carriers along with their insureds in automobile and premise liability cases. She has represented multiple insurers since 1978. Initially practicing in the New Orleans office she opened the Firm’s Covington office. At the present time she is the Managing Partner of the Firm.

During the past 5 years Adrianne has been responsible for managing over 1000 Katrina Homeowner and Commercial insurance cases for State Farm. She is presently involved in Chinese Drywall Litigation for State Farm in the Multi-District Litigation in the Eastern District and is serving on the Insurance Steering Committee. In addition she handles numerous personal injury, property damage and insurance coverage cases.

Adrianne has been a member of numerous Bar organizations including the Covington, New Orleans and Louisiana Bar Association. She serves on the Nominating Committee for the Louisiana State Bar Association as well as the Legislation Committee. She has served as a hearing officer for the Louisiana Disciplinary Board and is presently serving as a probation officer and fee dispute arbitrator. She has been active with the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and served as its president in 2004-2005. She is a member of the Association of Defense Attorneys serving on the Executive Board from 2002 to 2005. She is also active in the Defense Research Institute. She was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2011 She is presently serving on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry. She previously served on the Executive Council for LABI. She is a member of the West St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce. She serves on the Board of Directors of Support our War Heroes.

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.

Brian Bornstein is Regional Claims Executive for AIG's Mid-Atlantic Region and is based in Philadelphia. In this position Brian acts as the senior claims executive and makes sure that all AIG claims handled in the mid atlantic region are serviced appropriately. These claims include Crime, Directors and Officers, Errors & Omissions, Workers Comp, Casualty, Environmental, Property, and Healthcare. Prior to this position, Brian spent ten years in AIG home office New York where he held the following positions: Vice President, Quality Assurance Group, overseeing the Crime, Directors and Officers, Errors and Omissions and Toxic Tort areas; and as Assistant Vice President, Crime Claims. In his position as Assistant Vice President of Crime Claims he managed hundreds of world wide crime claims with exposures in the multi millions of dollars. For these claims, he was also involved in managing the accounting and recovery processes. Prior to joining AIG in 1995, Brian worked as in house counsel with Long Island Lighting Company and practiced law with Lowenstein Sandler and Bingham Englar. He holds a B.A. degree from Cornell University and Law (JD) and MBA degrees from the University of Buffalo.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Patricia Carbone was a environmental and commercial law litigator prior to joining CNA. Upon joining CNA's Environmental and Mass Tort Claim (E&MTC) department in 1996, Ms. Carbone was responsible for managing the litigation of declaratory judgment actions against the company and implementing resolution strategies. As a member of the E&MTC Strategic Claim Unit, she coordinated company coverage positions for environmental, mass tort, and asbestos coverage actions and assisted the claim staff in the handling and resolution of larger claims. As the Director of the Silica Unit, she coordinated the company's coverage response to silica claims and was instrumental in supporting the litigation strategy for the insureds' defense. In 2005, Ms. Carbone became the Director of HealthPro's Advanced Medical Technology (AMT) claim team, a unit handling pharmaceutical, medical device and nutraceutical claims. As part of this team, she worked with claim staff, underwriters and risk management partners to service CNA's AMT customers by developing and implementing effective litigation strategies, and creating and interpreting policy language. Currently a member of CNA's Specialty Line Strategic Claim Unit, Ms. Carbone continues these efforts with AMT claims, while also working to develop and implement claim resolution strategies for HealthPro's professional and hospital liability claims.

Mr. Carlton represents business clients in complex civil litigation. He provides consultation and representation in numerous areas of insurance coverage and defends insurers and third-party administrators with respect to coverage disputes and claims of insurance bad faith, deceptive trade practices and insurance code violations. He also defends insureds in business and personal injury litigation, including attorney professional liability, auto liability, premises liability, products liability, construction defect, catastrophic injury, and first party property claims; and maintains a commercial liability practice representing construction companies, self-insured employers and other business entities.

Tim Crawley is one of the founding members of Anderson Crawley & Burke, pllc, with offices in Jackson and Oxford, MS.  Mr. Crawley is admitted to practice before all courts in the States of Mississippi and Tennessee, and before the United States Supreme Court.  He has annually received the highest rating from Martindale Hubbell since 2013 and has reported more than 40 appellate decisions.  Mr. Crawley has authored several articles and served as a faculty member for many continuing education and client training seminars in his areas of practice, recently presenting on Unmanned Aerial Systems (“Drones”) to the LMA Under 35 group at Lloyd’s of London; at the RIMS Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA; at the ACE Annual Conference in Charlotte, NC; and at the 72nd Annual Workers’ Compensation Educational Conference in Orlando, FL. Mr. Crawley is considered to be a leader in the industry regarding drones, their liability profile, and insurance coverage issues.  He is a member of the Mississippi and Tennessee Bar Associations; Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit; DRI; IADC; TIDA; TLA; CLM; and the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association. Mr. Crawley received his undergraduate education from Duke University in 1982, his Juris Doctorate from The University of Mississippi School of Law in 1985, and he currently resides in Jackson, MS.
 

John B. Drummy is a senior partner of Kightlinger & Gray, LLP in Indianapolis, Indiana.  His practice areas include insurance coverage and bad faith, professional liability, appellate representation, employment litigation and class actions.  He is a frequent author and presenter on claims of bad faith as well as coverage and appellate issues.  He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, Defense Research Institute and the International Association of Defense Counsel.  He is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Indiana, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.  He was selected as an Indiana Super Lawyer® during 2010, 2011, and 2012.
 

Chris is currently Associate General Counsel for North American Risk Services (NARS).   Previous to joining NARS, Chris served as a Senior Advisor to Suite 200 Solutions, LLC.  Prior to joining Suite 200 Solutions, LLC, Chris served in several C-Suite roles for Canal Insurance Company --  including General Counsel/Corporate Secretary, Chief Claims Officer and Chief Operating Officer.   

Previous to joining Canal, Chris served as Division Counsel to a division of AIG.  He has also served as Corporate Counsel to Progressive Insurance Company and as a Trial Attorney for a Birmingham, Alabama based law firm.  Chris is a frequent lecturer on the topics of litigation management, bad faith, insurance compliance programs and enterprise risk management fundamentals. 

He is a  graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, is admitted to several state and federal bars, has earned CLM's Certified Claims Professional and Advanced Claims Professional Designations.  He is also active in the Defense Research Institute, the Association of Corporate Counsel, Trucking Industry Defense Association, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, and the American Bar Association (where he is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation).

Before entering the insurance industry, Lewis was a practicing licensed professional counselor and practiced law as a partner of a regional law firm – and in private practice – where his practice focused on defense litigation of licensed professionals; including healthcare litigation defense, the representation of healthcare enterprises and large physician practice groups, and specialized treatment facilities. He also served as the General Counsel for the Florida Physicians Association a sister organization of the Florida Medical Society.

Lewis has extensive experience as a healthcare attorney, with experience in insurance defense and administrative law with direct experience in insurance claims management with a focus on litigation management.

Mr. Harper is a member of DRI, TIDA, NRRDA, and, of course, CLM, where he serves on the Transportation Committee. He is admitted to the bar of Ohio and Florida, and is a Certified Litigation Management Professional.

Lewis earned two Masters Degrees from Denver Seminary – Denver Colorado, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Akron, School of Law.

Erica Kerstein focuses her practice on complex insurance matters, with particular emphasis in the areas of financial lines, bad faith, commercial general liability and first-party property. Her extensive experience includes matters involving environmental, professional liability, general liability, and other claims, both counseling and representing clients in high-profile matters. Erica is a member of the firm’s Insurance + Reinsurance Group.

Erica represents domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers in litigation across the United States, both in federal and state courts. She also represents insurers before arbitration panels and mediators in the United States and abroad, with a particular focus on Bermuda and London arbitrations of complex insurance coverage issues. She has litigated and arbitrated many of the insurance industry's fundamental dispute issues, including restitution, disgorgement, consent, reasonableness, allocation, subrogation, misrepresentation, warranty/rescission, late notice, prior notice, exhaustion, bad faith, professional services exclusion, owned property exclusion, prior or pending litigation exclusion, pollution exclusion and enforcement of arbitration provisions. In addition, Erica has represented public companies, financial services firms and individuals in securities enforcement matters, internal investigations, and compliance matters. 

Erica is known for engaging with her clients in an incisive, efficient and responsive manner. She is a sought-after speaker and has published articles on a broad range of insurance-related topics.

Education:
Fordham University School of Law
J.D.

University of Michigan
B.A.
 

Mr. Kohane is a nationally recognized insurance coverage counselor with a statewide and national practice who serves as an expert witness, conducts extensive training, consultation and in-house seminars on this highly specialized practice. Mr. Kohane is also known in the industry for his comprehensive newsletter, Coverage Pointers, a bi-weekly publication summarizing important insurance coverage decisions in New York State courts with overviews of other jurisdictions.

A senior member at Hurwitz & Fine, P.C. in Buffalo, New York, Mr. Kohane is also active behind the scenes, advising clients on a broad range of matters involving litigation including insurance coverage, bad faith, tort defense and professional ethics. Mr. Kohane also has extensive experience in mediating complex casualty and insurance coverage disputes

Mr. Kohane is a graduate of the University at Buffalo Law School and has been teaching Insurance Law as an Adjunct Professor at his alma mater for over 20 years. He heads his firm’s Insurance Coverage and Extra Contractual Liability, Class Actions/Mass Torts and ADR practice groups.

Dan is a Past President of the highly selective Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC), having previously chaired the FDCC’s Insurance Coverage Section. He is a former director of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) where he is a member of the Insurance Law Steering Committee, chaired the 2010 Insurance Coverage and Practice Symposium, and is Program Chair for the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence’s 2012 Judicial Symposium. He is also a former director of the Lawyers for Civil Justice.

Bryce Larrabee spent the majority of his 15 year legal career in various aspects of nationwide litigation. He spent the first 3 years in private practice working at a New York City law firm, Bigham Englar Jones & Houston, specializing in maritime/admiralty law. Subsequently, he moved to New Hampshire and worked at the State’s largest law firm McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, focusing on various types of commercial litigation.

Bryce joined RiverStone in 2003 where he was initially involved with the claims department. He spent the majority of his time resolving claims related to long tail exposures such as toxic waste, mold and benzene. In 2006 he moved to what ultimately became the General Counsel’s Office where he continued to focus on long tail exposures with a further emphasis on coverage. RiverStone manages claims and litigation for a host of affiliated companies, including TIG Insurance Company, General Fidelity Insurance Company, Fairmont Insurance Company, U.S. Fire Insurance Company, North River Insurance Company and Valiant Insurance Company. In his current position, Bryce spends the majority of his time managing coverage litigation. He also spends time working on traditional corporate matters such and mergers, acquisitions and contract reviews, among others.
 

I am a commercial and insurance mediator focusing on state and federal matters at the trial and appellate levels. CIPP/US (Certified Information Privacy Professional) certified, I also mediate matters involving data breaches, ransomware, privacy violations and cyber insurance. Am mediating online and available for mediations nationwide and for the London Market. Honored to be a member of the National Association of Distinguished Neutrals. For my NADN profile and online calendar, see www.nadn./jean-lawler. For more information, see my website at www.lawleradr.com and connect with me on LinkedIn!

I was previously a Senior Partner at Murchison & Cumming, LLP, representing corporations, professionals, non-profits, individuals, and insurers in a broad range of matters, at trial and on appeal. My legal experience has been diverse and international - ranging from insurance coverage/bad faith, tort, business, professional liability, and complex commercial litigation, to evolving risks such as data breach, cyber & privacy liability. I have a deep knowledge of the insurance industry, insurance policies and the various risks they insure against (primary, excess, reinsurance, program, surplus lines, London Market, and international insurers). I served as Managing Partner of my former law firm and at times chaired its Insurance Law, Cyber & Privacy Law, International Law, and Business & Real Estate Transactions practice groups.

Rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, I have been a Southern California “Super Lawyer” since 2006 (Insurance Coverage - 2006-17; ADR - 2018-present), have been recognized on Martindale’s Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers and on Super Lawyer’s list of Southern California Top Women Lawyers, in 2016 (my last year of practice) being one of only 20 women recognized in the field of Insurance Coverage. Honored to be a Fellow and Founding Regent of the American College of Coverage Counsel and Past President of the FDCC and the Insuralex Global Insurance Lawyers Group (Chambers-Band 1).

Joe provides legal counsel to the global claim organization within the ACE Group. This work includes managing coverage litigation for ACE, managing catastrophe loss response and reporting, large loss management for all lines of business and overall guidance on claim process. In addition, he actively manages the relationship between ACE Group Claims and its outside and in-house legal providers. Joe joined ACE in 2005 after 19 years with CIGNA in various claim, legal and risk management positions.

Joe is a graduate of Fairfield University and Suffolk University School of Law.

Peter McCormack has been a Claims Manager for the Controlled Risk Insurance Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1993. Mr. McCormack holds a Masters in Business Administration from Boston College. Prior to joining the CRICO, Mr. McCormack directed the Risk Management and Insurance activities at University Hospital in Boston. His claims handling experience is primarily in the area of Medical Malpractice. He is a frequent speaker on topics of claims handling, patient safety, and liability prevention for medical providers.

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.

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.
 
 

Kevin M. Quinley is the Principal at Quinley Risk Associates, LLC.  He is a nationally recognized authority on claims-handling and litigation management.  He has over 30 years experience in managing casualty claims and litigation.He has a BA from Wake Forest University and an MA from the College of William & Mary.  He holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation and specialty designations from the American Insurance Institute in Risk Management (ARM), in Claims (AIC), in Reinsurance (ARe), in Management (AIM) and he holds the Registered Professional Adjuster (RPA) designation.  Kevin is also a licensed Property & Casualty Insurance Consultant in Virginia.A Contributing Editor to Medical Product Outsourcing magazine, Kevin is the author of over 700 published articles and ten books.  The latter includes Managing Product Liability Risk and Avoiding Litigation.  Kevin is a co-author of the CLM "Product Liability Adjuster Training Course."  He is a frequent writer, speaker and trainer on topics relating to claims and litigation management.  Law firms and clients throughout the country seek him out as a testifying expert on litigated matters relating to bad faith, extracontractual liability, claims-handling and adjuster standard-of-care.  You can reach him at kevin@kevinquinley.com and follow him on Twitter @ClaimsCoach.

Gretchen's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and data privacy compliance.  She has handled dozens of complex multi-million dollar commercial matters invovling insurance coverage over the last fifteen years in courts across the country. Gretchen also has extensive experience with privacy/data breach issues, varoius types of class action matters, and is a Certified Informational Privacy Professional/US and in Europe..Gretchen regularly partners with her clients at the early stage of a conflict in an effort to avoid future actions or to favorably position them should litigation ensue.  Her detailed analysis and early planning has resulted in her achieving a favorable resolution of numerous complex multi-million dollar coverage disputes in a cost-efficient manner.  She has extensive courtroom experience having litigated and tried complex insurance disputes in federal and state courts throughout the country, and before arbitration panels.Following law school, Gretchen clerked for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada for two years.  She began working for CBM  in 2000 and became a partner in 2004. In 2010, she was named a Rising Star by Law 360. At CBM, Gretchen has been active in management, serving as Chair of the Practice Group Chairs for 4 years, and the Chair of the Insurane Practice Group for the past 3 years.

When not busy practicing the law,  Gretchen teaches martial arts classes in San Francisco as she is a 4th degree black belt in Kwan Um Do Kwang (zen sword). She also enjoys biking, doing acrobatics, and learning French.

Sean Reidy is Counsel with State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. in Bloomington Illinois.  Sean has been with State Farm since 1993.  He has worked in several different roles including 15 years dealing with corporate bad faith, class action and other litigation. 

Joe Schmitt is a Vice President and Chief Claims Counsel for OneBeacon Insurance Group, based at its corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota. His team provides legal support to the OneBeacon claims organization, including assisting with coverage and extra-contractual issues across all lines of business. Joe is also responsible for managing OneBeacon's legacy asbestos and environmental exposures. Before joining OneBeacon in 2010, Joe worked for ten years in various front-line, technical and management claims roles at the Travelers Companies (including The St. Paul Companies). Previously, he was in private practice at the Minneapolis law firm of Meagher & Geer, where his practice focused on professional liability, insurance coverage and commercial litigation. Joe is a 1992 graduate of Wayne State University Law School. He holds a B.A. from Kalamazoo College and an M.A. from the University of Essex, England.

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.”

Craig E. Stewart is an attorney in the Boston office of White and Williams LLP where he is co-chair of the Bad Faith and Extra Contractual Obligations group of the firm’s Commercial Ligation Department.  He has over thirty years of jury and jury-waived trial experience in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation as well as in a wide variety of products liability and complex commercial matters.  He serves as National Bad Faith Counsel of a multi-line global insurance company and has successfully defended commercial liability carriers against claims of bad faith claims handling, denial of coverage and failure to settle brought by policy holders claiming millions of dollars in actual and punitive damages.  He has tried to verdict multiple products liability and general negligence cases.  In addition, he is an experienced commercial litigator who has represented corporations in a number of different industries including pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and construction.  Mr. Stewart is a Vice-Chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Tort Trial and Insurance Section of the ABA, an active member of The Claims & Litigation Management Alliance, and a member of the Defense Research Institute.  He has been named a “New England Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics magazine since 2009 (insurance coverage and litigation).  Mr. Stewart has written and presented extensively on insurance coverage and bad faith topics.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School.  For contact information and further details about his experience, please visit www.whiteandwilliams.com. 
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Tony Stompanato Regional Vice President AIG Chicago, IL

Mr. Stompanato is the Regional Vice President of Healthcare claims for AIG, a New York-based global provider of Commercial and Personal insurance services.  He has been with AIG since April 2001, heading up the Midwest region, and has significant claim and management experience within the insurance industry.  The Chicago Region handles Professional and General Liability claims for a wide variety of insureds including large physician groups, hospitals, long term care facilities, dialysis centers, blood centers, radiology groups, and various other miscellaneous healthcare related facilities and practices written on a primary, excess, umbrella, and reinsurance basis.

 Mr. Stompanato is currently responsible for all claim activity for the Chicago regional office which handles claims on a nation-wide basis. In addition he oversees the healthcare-related losses written by AIG/Lexington in the London market. Mr. Stompanato holds licenses in all 28 states that require such qualification.

Maggie is a member of Coronado Katz LLC (www.coronadokatz.com) in Kansas City, Missouri.  Given the firms unique location on the state line between Missouri and Kansas, Maggie practices extensively in the federal and state courts of both states.  Maggie’s legal career began at Sherman Taff Bangert Thomas & Coronado, PC. After leaving Sherman Taff in 2000, Maggie held positions as an attorney in the claims department of a large insurance company and as a litigator for a larger Kansas City defense firm.  Maggie rejoined Sherman Taff in 2006 after the birth of her son, where she remained until the end of 2011. On January 1, 2012, Maggie, along with five other attorneys from Sherman Taff, opened Coronado Katz LLC.
 
Maggie’s practice focuses on public entities, including educational institutions, employment, construction, and general insurance defense. Maggie’s experience as a claims professional gives her unique insight into meeting the needs and requirements of insurance professionals and in-house counsel.
 
Maggie is the Lead Chair of CLM’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, as well as a member of CLM's Diversity Committee. Maggie is also a member of various other national and state legal organizations.

Wade joined Argo Group US, Inc. in May 2010 as in-house counsel primarily responsible for managing extra-contractual litigation against Argo Group US entities, and assisting with complex litigation, discovery, and subpoenas.He was a Panelist for “Bearing Witness: Navigating the Bad Faith Minefield During Trial” at the CLM Insurance Bad Faith and Coverage Conference, September 14, 2012.Previously, he was a complex business litigation attorney with an emphasis in coverage and defense of commercial general liability and property policies. Wade has represented insurance companies in state and federal trial and appellate litigation matters.Wade currently is Province 22 President for the International Legal Fraternity Phi Delta Phi and has been an Adjunct Professor of Advocacy at South Texas College of Law, his alma mater, where he has coached numerous moot court teams to state and national championships.Wade earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science and minor in Economics from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas where he was a member of Alpha Phi Omega.He graduated magna cum laude from South Texas College of Law as a member of South Texas Law Review, Order of the Lytae, the Langdell Scholar program, and was Magister of Phi Delta Phi’s Wood Inn. Wade also earned numerous awards as a member of South Texas College of Law’s nationally recognized varsity moot court program.

Michael Weinberg is a Partner in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s Boston office. He represents a broad range of clients in all phases of the civil litigation process. Mr. Weinberg is experienced in both trial of cases and alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration. He handles matters involving insurance law, contracts, professional liability, products liability, construction, medical malpractice, and class action litigation. Mr. Weinberg assists clients on a broad range of insurance issues including litigating declaratory judgment actions, rendering coverage opinions and handling the full range of coverage issues. His experience with complex coverage cases includes numerous risks whether under commercial general liability, D&O, environmental, life, errors and omissions, excess, umbrella or manuscript policies. Mr. Weinberg is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter.


Education:
J.D., Northeastern University
M.A., Pace University
M.A., Herbert H. Lehman College
B.S., City College of New York