Schedule/Sessions
Keynote - A Piece of the Puzzle: Eight Traits of a Quality Teammate
How well do the members of your organization or team work together? Are you a smooth, well-oiled machine or a fractured collection of in-it-for-yourself individuals? In a straight forward no-excuses style, Kevin Kush discusses eight traits that can turn any group or organization into a cohesive, high-performing team. Including; respecting everyone, handling adversity, adapting to change, and the importance of having high energy and being accountable. Coach Kush’s passion for performance is contagious and will help lead your team to greater productivity and success!
Back to topSession 1 - Special Delivery: What Type of “Package” Does The First Party Adjuster Deliver To Your Subrogation Department?
- Speakers:
Timothy Anderson, Markel Service, Incorporated
Kevin DeGarmo, Ascot Group
Mary K Mashek, Holmes Murphy & Associates
Jessica Skarin, Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP
This panel presentation will discuss the important role that the first party adjuster plays in the subrogation process. We will explain the critical nature of early and frequent communication between the first party adjuster and the subrogation specialist while the first party claim is being adjusted. Additionally, we will provide concrete examples of the type of documentation necessary to establish a subrogation claim, and discuss how the first party adjuster can help to collect and deliver a winning package of information to the subrogation specialist.
Session 2 - Subrogation Pitfalls – Navigating the Difficult Insured
- Speakers:
Terry Eddington, Great American Insurance Group
William Marx, Charles Taylor Adjusting & Technical Services
Bradford Smith, Self Employed
Subrogation Pitfalls – Navigating the Difficult Insured is a presentation focused on recognizing potential problems that may arise when dealing with a difficult insured during the subrogation process. The presentation will include real-life examples to emphasize some of the common issues and their potential impact that arise in subrogation matters when the insured does not wish to cooperate and/or wishes to put his/her own interest ahead of the subrogated carrier. The presentation will also provide suggested methods for both preventing potential pitfalls and addressing problems when they arise.
Session 3 - DAMAGES! Maximizing Your Recoverable Property Damage Claim
- Speakers:
Joanne Hobbs, Merchants Insurance Group
Ryan McIntosh, W.R. Berkley Corporation
Jeffrey Zielinski, de Luca Levine, LLC
We have all been there. You have a solid liability case that should resolve for a high percentage of the paid claim, but the subrogation target’s carrier is challenging every aspect of your damages. With so much effort and expense put into proving liability, we sometimes overlook the importance of developing “provable recoverable damages,” which are necessary to secure large subrogation recoveries.
This intermediate-to-advanced presentation for subrogation representatives and attorneys will focus on the aggressive strategies and tactics that subrogation professionals, front-line claims adjusters and attorneys can pursue to maximize the provable recoverable property and related damages.
Recommendations and discussions will cover the full scope of recovery efforts: from the initial claims adjusting; through effective and persuasive pre-suit presentation of damages; to the appropriate measure of recoverable damages and how to negotiate; right on up to the best logistics for maximizing your damages at trial.
Throughout the presentation we will be interacting with the audience about their past and present cases, and how they may have handled them better, and how they can be more proactive going forward.
Session 4 - Effective Loss Scene Investigation
The presentation will emphasize the importance of a prompt and thorough subrogation investigation for property claims- fire, water and structural. The presentation will address considerations in the retention of expert(s), interaction with public authorities, what information and documentation needs to be gathered immediately, recognition of potentially responsible parties, proper notice to those potentially responsible parties, securing the loss scene and any artifacts associated with the loss, and potential defenses to be considered in conducting the investigation.
Session 5 - Product Liability & the Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Speakers:
Matthew Dubbin, MSD Engineering
Trent Gillette , McLarens
Jeffrey Harvey, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Tony Morrone, Cozen O’Connor
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulates the sale and manufacture of various consumer products within the United States and is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is charged with ensuring that proper minimum safety standards are developed and identifying those products that fail to meet those standards. While violations of CPSC standards do not necessarily create private rights of action, those entities pursuing product liability claims against manufacturers, distributers and sellers can use the materials and standards generated by the CPSC to help them more effectively litigate their cases to a successful conclusion. This presentation will provide a background on the how the CSPC operates, what information is available for a subrogation litigant, and how that information can be used to produce a successful recovery.
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