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Earthquake Claims Handling: California Accreditation

Curriculum: Catastrophe

State Approved CE Credits:FL NC OK TX

Monday, March 18 — 10:30 - 12:00
Tuesday, March 19 — 3:30 - 5:00

Douglas Dell, VP & Director, Vale National Training Center, Arlington, TX
Dan Dyce, CPCU, RPA, Consultant, Dan Dyce Consulting, Sacramento, CA
Morgan Griffith, PE, Senior Managing Engineer, Exponent, Menlo Park, CA

  • Recognize what earthquake damage looks like in order to complete a full scope of damages
  • Properly use earthquake Shaking Intensity Maps in the analysis of earthquake damage
  • Find and use inspection checklists that will help make sure a thorough inspection of a structure was completed
  • Decide what earthquake damage you can scope on your own and when to involve a technical consultant

Emerging Issues in Property Coverage: Digital Assets

Curriculum: Underwriting and Claims

State Approved CE Credits:DE FL NH NC OK TX

Tuesday, March 19 — 8:00 - 9:30
Wednesday, March 20 — 1:30 - 3:00

Jay A. Johnston, JD, Executive Counsel, Travelers Companies, St. Paul, MN
Craig D. Roswell, Esq., Managing Partner, Niles, Barton & Wilmer, LLP, Baltimore, MD

  • Describe the underwriting challenges with digital assets, such as virtual currency and non-fungible tokens, and the underwriting appetite for digital asset exposures
  • Evaluate existing policy wording as it relates to digital assets, such as virtual currency and NFTs
  • Review recent case law applying existing policy wording to digital assets, such as virtual currency an NFTs
  • Identify challenges in applying existing wording to digital assets and understand industry attempts to address such property and exposures

Enforcing Policy Conditions

Curriculum: Casualty Campus

State Approved CE Credits:DE FL NH NC OK TX

Monday, March 18 — 10:30 - 12:00
Tuesday, March 19 — 1:30 - 3:00

Kelly M. Lippincott, JD, Partner, Gordon & Rees, LLP, Alexandria, VA

  • Describe common policy obligations owed by the insured
  • Assess how to enforce policy conditions
  • Determine when an insurer can rely on a breach of a policy condition to deny
  • Identify methods to preserve the insurer's ability to deny coverage if the insured breaches a policy condition

Equipment Breakdown & Related Time-Element Issues

Curriculum: Adjusting Property

State Approved CE Credits:FL NC

Monday, March 18 — 1:30 - 3:00
Tuesday, March 19 — 3:30 - 5:00

Timothy Begley, CPCU, Director-Claim Account Mgmt., Hartford Steam Boiler, Hartford, CT
George Dickover, ACI CPCU, Executive General Adjuster, Selective Insurance Group, Skaneateles, NY
Patrick F. Kelleher, CPA, CFF, VP, Investigative Accounting, Meaden & Moore, Boston, MA

  • Describe the potential interplay of Equipment Breakdown and Commercial Property Coverage for a variety of claims scenarios
  • Identify strategies for adjusting a complex claim that involves Equipment Breakdown coverage where both Equipment Breakdown and first-party property policies provide coverage for an insured's loss
  • Evaluate what is covered in Home Systems Protection as compared to the HO policy and from what causes of loss, including apportioned claims

Exterior & Interior Estimating and Scoping

Curriculum: Adjusting Property

State Approved CE Credits:FL NC TX

Monday, March 18 — 3:30 - 5:00
Wednesday, March 20 — 8:30 - 10:00

Jay Dykstra, Technical Education Manager, Alpine Intel, Charlotte, NC
David James, XCT, CXAT, PTC 1, Training Manager, Administrative Strategies, LLC, Westfield, IN

  • Discuss claimed damages and what is covered vs not covered
  • Review methods in completing an accurate scope
  • Learn estimating techniques within industry estimating software

Extra Expense: Time Element Claims

Curriculum: Commercial Time Element Losses

State Approved CE Credits:FL NH NC TX

Monday, March 18 — 3:30 - 5:00
Tuesday, March 19 — 3:30 - 5:00

Alexandria May, CPA, VP, Investigative Accounting, Meaden & Moore, Boston, MA

  • Identify the extra expense concepts based on the customary insuring agreements
  • Examine the potential challenges of Extra Expenses and loss mitigation verification
  • Evaluate the application of expense to reduce, pure extra expenses, increased cost of working, and expediting expenses
  • Explore examples of extra expenses and the interplay with the business income loss

 


Please join us in Boston for 3 days of sharing how you serve and adapt as an insurance professional in today’s rapidly evolving world:

  • Engage in over 100 innovative educational course selections across 14 learning tracks led by industry professionals serving your quest for know-how in the ever-evolving insurance landscape
  • Forge connections through one of the industry’s largest gatherings of diverse insurance professionals serving as a conduit for networking opportunities
  • Immerse yourself in the Insurance Services Expo interacting with hundreds of leading edge service providers showcasing products and tools to revolutionize service in the insurance industry

It was my first time, so it was a great time hearing from a lot of different people and experiencing something new.

I like there are educated speakers who show genuine appreciation and passion for their topics.

I enjoyed the variety of sessions and the networking promoted within the session. I alsoappreciated the collection of exhibitors that had various ways of engagement.

The Networking was amazing, but just being able to be together with peers and new friendsagain was so needed!

I enjoyed meeting other professionals in the business. I also loved the various topics andhearing how other insurance carriers were addressing some of the same issues we encounter.

The informational sessions were very useful and gave me a lot of great things to bring backwith me.

The variety of content and the sessions that were interactive. So valuable to learn from otherattendees and how they tackle challenges and issues at their organizations.

Opportunity to connect with other claim professionals and vendors. Informative & interestingpresentations. Appreciated that a lot of the presentations qualified for CE credit.



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