Insurance Coverage Litigation
Committee CLE Seminar
Loews Ventana Canyon / Tucson, AZ
March 4–7, 2015
www.ambar.org/2015inscoverage
Schedule
Wednesday, March 4
Thursday, March 5
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Early Bird Cocktail Reception
Cascade Terrace
(Outside)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Speaker Ready Room
Coronado
8:30 am – 9:30 am
Breakfast Business Meeting
Catalina Ballroom
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:45 am – 10:55 pm
10:55 am – 11:15 am
CLE Plenary Session: “Well, That Didn’t Go Right”–The
Judges Panel on Perfecting Your Appeal
Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom Foyer
Luncheon (Ticketed: $45)
11:15 am – 12:45 pm CLE Option 1– Gender Bender, Take Two: Negotiating to
win–for Your Clients and Yourself
11:15 am – 12:45 pm
12:50 pm – 1:00 pm
Friday, March 6
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
CLE Option 2– Detour Ahead: Federal Court Certification of
Questions of Insurance Coverage law to State Supreme Court
Section Chair–Elect Remarks–Steve Weiss
Catalina Ballroom
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
1:00 pm – 2:10 pm
CLE Plenary Session: The Right and Duty to Settle: Bad Faith
and Negligence Exposure Associated with Third Party Claim
Handling
2:20 pm – 3:40 pm
Grand Ballroom
CLE Plenary Session: Young Lawyer Track –”Bending the Cost
Curve” in Long–Tail Liability Coverage: The Berkshire Hathaway Salon B
Strategy
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
CLE Breakout Sessions
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
Grand Ballroom Foyer
`` Young Lawyer Tract – Duty or No Duty?
Catalina Ballroom
`` Give & Take: The Battle Over Defense Dollars
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
`` Exploring the Excess Exposure Playbook
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
`` Transition from Primary to Excess Coverage: Effortless Step or
Grand Canyon Leap
Grand Ballroom
Salon C
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Subcommittee Meet Ups
Ventana Dining Room
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
Managing Editors of Coverage Meeting
Executive Boardroom
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
In–House and Diversity Reception
Sabino
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Canyon Café & Bill’s Grill
7:00 am – 12:00 pm
Speaker Ready Room
Coronado
7:00 am – 12:30 am
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Group Breakfast
Catalina Ballroom
Course Materials: www.ambar.org/2015inscoverage
WiFi Password: ABA2015
Schedule
Friday, March 6
8:00 am – 9:10 am
CLE
Plenary Session: Doing the Settlement Two-Step:
Strategies for Mediating the Underlying Case along with the
Coverage Dispute
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
9:15 am – 10:35 am
CLE
Plenary Session: Cyber Attacks and Privacy Perils:
Understand and Mitigate Your Risk Through Insurance
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:25 am – 10:30 am
10:35 am – 11:35 am
CLE
Breakout Sessions
`` Young Lawyer Track-Pre-Litigation Communications Between
Insurers and Their Attorneys
Catalina Ballroom
`` It’s Only Forum Shopping When It’s Coming from the Other
Side!
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
`` The Wall: A Close Look at the Persistent Problems Facing
In-House Law Departments Simultaneously Giving Direct Side Grand Ballroom
Coverage Advice and Monitoring the Company’s Reinsurance Salon B
Program
`` The Changing and Challenging World of D&O Insurance
11:40 am – 12:40 pm
CLE
Breakout Sessions
`` Young Lawyer Track-Builder’s Risk-Structuring the Right
Coverage, Avoiding and Resolving Disputes
Catalina Ballroom
`` The Science of Apology for Insurance Coverage Matters
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
`` Best Practices to Most Efficiently Resolve Coverage Disputes
(It’s Not Personal; It’s Business)
`` Construction Defects May Be Accidents, But a Company’s
Response to Them is Not
12:50 pm – 2:15 pm
Non–CLE
Grand Ballroom
Salon C
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
Grand Ballroom
Salon C
Roundtable Luncheons (Ticketed: $55)
`` Rountable Luncheon 1–4
Coronado
`` Roundtable Luncheon 5–7
Rincon
`` Roundtable Luncheon 8–11
Sabino
`` Roundtable Luncheon 12–16
Executive Boardroom
`` Roundtable Luncheon 17–19
Sonora
2:15 pm – 5:00 pm
(2:30 pm tee time)
Golf Tournament
Mountain Course
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Tennis
Tennis Course
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Women’s Reception
Ventana Dining Room
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Young Lawyer’s Reception
Sabino
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Reception and Dinner
Kiva Patio (Outside) & Ballroom
(Ticketed: $100)
(Ticketed: Adult $85/Child $35)
Schedule
Saturday, March 7
7:00 am – 1:00 pm
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 am – 12:30 pm
Speaker Ready Room
Coronado
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Group Breakfast
Catalina Ballroom
8:00 am – 9:10 pm
CLE Plenary Session: Counting for Coverage: How Many
Occurrences Were There?
9:20 am – 10:20 am
CLE Breakout Sessions
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
`` Young Lawyer Track–Estopped in the Name of Coverage:
Litigating the Effect of ROR and Denial Letters
Catalina Ballroom
`` The Ethics of Witness preparation in a Coverage Case—
Prepare Your Witness...But Not TOO Much!
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
`` Product Recall Insurance: It’s Not Just for Food Contamination
Anymore
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
`` Social Media–The Impact on Coverage Disputes and Litigation
Grand Ballroom
Salon C
10:20 am – 10:30am
Coffee Break
Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:30 am – 11:30 am
CLE Breakout Sessions
11:40 am – 12:50 pm
`` Young Lawyer Track–The Undersriter Deposition Zone
Catalina Ballroom
`` Oops, My Policy Limits Are Gone. Who Do I Sue Next?
Grand Ballroom
Salon A
`` Which Came First, The Chicken or the Egg? How Courts Apply
the Concurrent Causation Doctrine to Resolve Coverage
Disputes
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
`` Municipalities are Policyholders Too: A Review of the Unique
Insurance Coverage Issues Cities and Towns Are Facing
Grand Ballroom
Salon C
CLE Ethics Plenary– Point/Counterpoint–An Ethics and Insurance
Law Debate
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Farewell Networking Reception
Grand Ballroom
Salon B
Upper Terrace
(Outside)
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Thank You to our Sponsors!
The ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of this 2015
CLE Seminar:
Section Sponsors
Exhibitor
Law Firm Sponsors