Schedule/Sessions

Breakfast and Keynote

• Speakers:

• Rob Galbraith, AF Group

We live in a world of accelerating change today. Evidence abounds all around us: take as a single example the shift from paper maps to real-time GPS on your mobile phone that has occurred over the past decade. Insurance is not immune: long resistant to change by design, the recent rise of insurtech holds the promise of a radically different future. While entrepreneurs and technologists are seeking to change insurance from the outside, industry professionals are also seeking to shape the future from within. Come learn from innovation expert and author Rob Galbraith why we are on the cusp of the end of insurance as we know it and how investing in your professional education is the best way to prepare yourself for what’s to come.

Welcome

Negligent Hiring, Retention and Supervision

• Speakers:

• Floyd Cottrell, Rawle & Henderson

• Charles Wendland, Branch Insurance

This course focuses on the legal basis for a Plaintiff to bring a case for negligent hiring, supervision, and/or retention in the context of a motor vehicle case. The course will also focus on the cross-examination of a Plaintiff's witness in order to aid the target audience in their investigations of such claims. 
 

Break

Anatomy of a Truck

• Speakers:

• Tracie Eckstein, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc.

• Tom McLaughlin, TFI International

Lunch

Pre-Trip Inspection

• Speakers:

• Jim Foster, Cassiday Schade LLP

• Tom McLaughlin, TFI International

Break

Independent Medical Examiner (IME)

• Speakers:

• Gary Pushkin, Cohen and Pushkin MD PA

• Carole Whitted-Ridgeway, CCP, CLMP, Maverick Transportation, LLC

This course will describe the purposes and goals of an independent medical examination. It will discuss how to choose an examining doctor as well as documents needed and other preparation for the examination. A mock IME will be conducted.

Break

Group Projects