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From the Policy to the Courtroom
New to the field or looking to dust off your skills? Join us for an in-depth, practical guide designed to provide you with essential knowledge and actionable tools to excel in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. This comprehensive program combines expert insights with practical examples and sample forms to ensure you leave with a solid foundation and handy resources. Build your expertise - register today!
- Master the basics of how to interpret insurance policy language and identify ambiguities.
- Review insurers' duties, the claims handling process, and what can go wrong.
- Understand when insurer conduct amounts to bad faith.
- Reach for a successful and speedy resolution of insurance disputes with demand and negotiation tips.
- Anticipate common defenses insurers will raise in response to insurance coverage and bad faith claims.
- Get useful tips and forms for securing the discovery you're entitled to.
- Determine when and how to effectively use motions, such as the motion to bifurcate coverage and bad faith claims.
Abbreviated Agenda
- Policy Interpretation Made Simple
- Insurers' Duties and Common Issues in Claims Handling Explained
- Bad Faith 101 (With Case Law)
- Legal Ethics
- Pre-Suit Pointers for Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Disputes
- Filing Suit and Common Defenses the Insurer May Raise
- Discovery in Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation (With Sample Requests)
- Sample Motions and Trial Checklists
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Credit Details
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Alabama CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Arkansas CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Arizona CLE |
|
6 Total |
| California CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Colorado CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Connecticut CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Delaware CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Florida CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Georgia CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Hawaii CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Iowa CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Idaho CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Illinois CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Indiana CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Kansas CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Kentucky CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Maine CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Minnesota CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Missouri CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| Northern Mariana Islands CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Mississippi CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Montana CLE |
|
6 Total |
| North Carolina CLE |
|
6 Total |
| North Dakota CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Nebraska CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New Hampshire CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New Jersey CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| New Mexico CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Nevada CLE |
|
6 Total |
| New York CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Ohio CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Oklahoma CLE |
|
7 Total |
| Oregon CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Pennsylvania CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Rhode Island CLE |
|
7 Total |
| South Carolina CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Tennessee CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Texas CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Utah CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Virginia CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Vermont CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Washington CLE |
|
6 Total |
| Wisconsin CLE |
|
7 Total |
| West Virginia CLE |
|
7.2 Total |
| Wyoming CLE |
|
6 Total |
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CLE
Agenda
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Policy Interpretation Made Simple
- Key Components of an Insurance Policy
- Principles of Policy Interpretation
- Common Terms/Clauses and Their Meanings
- Finding and Resolving Ambiguities
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Insurers' Duties and Common Issues in Claims Handling Explained
- Duty to Investigate
- Duty to Defend and Indemnify
- Other Duties
- Sample Claims Handling Checklist
- Conflicts of Interest and Independent Representation
- Reservation of Rights
- Partial Payments and Delays
- Denial of Coverage
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Bad Faith 101 (With Case Law)
- What it is and What it Isn't
- Negligence vs. Bad Faith
- First-Party vs. Third-Party Bad Faith Claims
- Common Bad Faith Tactics
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Legal Ethics
- Competence
- Confidentiality
- Conflicts of Interest
- Duty of Candor
- Ethics of Discovery and Evidence
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Pre-Suit Pointers for Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Disputes
- Sample Client Questionnaire and Investigation Checklist
- Filing a Complaint With the State's Department of Insurance
- Understanding the Remedies and Damages
- Demand Letters and Proof of Loss (With Sample Letter)
- Negotiation Pointers
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Filing Suit and Common Defenses the Insurer May Raise
- Key Considerations
- Practical Tips for Pleadings (With Samples)
- Insurer's Defenses
- Has the Insured Taken Reasonable Steps to Mitigate Damages?
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Discovery in Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation (With Sample Requests)
- Model Discovery Requests
- Resolving Discovery Disputes
- Handling Witnesses: Insured, Insurance Agent, Adjuster, and Experts
- Insurance Adjuster Depositions: Key Questions to Ask
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Sample Motions and Trial Checklists
- Motion Practice Pointers
- Bifurcation of Coverage and Bad Faith Disputes
- Trial Preparation Checklist
- Trial Insights
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for attorneys. Insurance professionals and paralegals may also benefit.
Speakers
Speaker bio
Kevin T. Knight
is a partner in the law offices of DSK Law. He is board-certified as a trial lawyer by both The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Over the course of his practice, Mr. Knight has generally focused on personal injury litigation. He earned his B.S.B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Florida and his J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law.
Speaker bio
Michael J. Needleman
is a partner in the Philadelphia Office of Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP. He is a member of the Litigation, Insurance, Employment Practices, and Corporate & Business Services groups. Mr. Needleman has extensive experience handling insurance defense, insurance coverage, employment litigation, and complex commercial litigation matters, including litigating franchise dispute matters. He practices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and District of Columbia, and has extensive trial experience. Mr. Needleman is a member of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is occasionally appointed by the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to assist in civil rights cases. He earned his B.A. degree from American University and his J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law.
Speaker bio
Angela B. Kennedy
is a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP where her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with respect to a wide range of issues in both state and federal courts and before regulatory agencies and commissions. As a former judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Ms. Kennedy earned her B.A. degree, with honors from Brigham Young University, her M.A. degree from Durham University and her J.D degree, magna cum laude (Order of the Coif - CALI Awards for best student performance in six courses: Contracts, Insurance Law, Federal Courts, Professional Responsibility, Elder Law, and Veterans Clinic - JB Reynolds Prize in Insurance Law (University of Missouri) - Guy A. Thompson Prizes for Best Student Comment and Best Production Award, Missouri Law Review - 1st Place, University of Missouri Transactional Law Competition (2014) - Top Ten Advocate, University of Missouri Moot Court (2014)) from the University of Missouri School of Law. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association, St. Louis Chapter (treasurer, 2023-2024; president-elect, 2024-2025), Missouri Bar Lawyer to Lawyer Dispute Resolution Committee (2024-2025), Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) (Pathfinder Program, 2023), Eighth Circuit Civil Jury Instructions Subcommittee, Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (secretary, Women in the Legal Profession, 2021-2022; member, Nominating Committee (2020-2022), Missouri Bar Leadership Academy (member, 2020-2021; co-chair, 2021-2023), Theodore McMillian American Inn of Court (associate member), Women Lawyers' Association of Greater St. Louis and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Ms. Kennedy is admitted to practice in Missouri, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western districts of Missouri, District , U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Speaker bio
Michael D. Collins
is a sole practitioner in Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania. He first began practicing law in California in 1993,where he concentrated on complex insurance coverage and bad faith actions. In June 1997, Mr. Collins embarked on a solo practice concentrating on insurance coverage, bad faith, business torts, products liability, civil rights and personal injury. He has extensive federal and state litigation experience in civil rights actions and first and third-party insurance coverage and claims handling matters. This experience has been earned at both trial and appellate levels. He has also represented captive insurers and reinsurers both in litigation and in transactional matters. Mr. Collins serves as special solicitor for insurance matters for Chestnuthill Township, PA. Mr. Collins has lectured and written extensively on insurance law, and legal liabilities for the vacation industry. He earned his B.A. degree, with honors, from California State University Northridge and his J.D. degree from Loyola Marymount Law School, Los Angeles, California. Mr. Collins is a member of the State Bar of California; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; the U.S. District courts for the Southern, Central, Eastern and Northern districts of California; the New Jersey State Bar Association; the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania; and the Monroe County Bar Association.
Speaker bio
James F. d'Entremont
is a trial attorney and member/shareholder of d'Entremont, Hebert and Hunter, LLC in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a diverse plaintiffs-only practice which includes representing policyholders and tort victims in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, as well as representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice, wrongful death, and catastrophic personal injury cases. Mr. d'Entremont earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola University (1994) and his J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law (1998) and is a member of the National Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the Louisiana Association for Justice, the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, and the National Traumatic Brain Injury Association. He is recognized by the National Trial Attorneys Association's in its "Top 100 -Civil Litigation" and by Top Verdict and Best of the Bar for achieving one of the Top 50 medical malpractice verdicts nationwide and Top 100 of all personal injury jury verdicts nationwide in 2023. Prior to becoming a plaintiff-only litigator, Mr. d'Entremont's legal experience included defending insurers in insurance coverage litigation, giving him a well-rounded perspective on the roles, responsibilities, and duties of both the insurer and the policyholder/insured in the claims handling process.
Speaker bio
Robert H. Jessup
is a partner at Howard Stallings Law Firm, where he represents plaintiffs in first-party property insurance, serious injury, and wrongful death cases. He has been recognized by The Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers. Robby was born and raised in North Carolina. He earned both his undergraduate degree, in Religious Studies and Journalism, and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is proud to represent people across his home state and is committed to helping clients through some of the most difficult moments in their lives. Robby lives in Raleigh with his wife, who is also an attorney, and their two young children.
Speaker bio
Garth A. Gersten
is an attorney with Otteson Shapiro LLP. He is currently the 2021 Vice-Chair of Insurance Committee of the Colorado Bar Association and a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel. In his insurance coverage practice, Mr. Gersten represents and advises policyholders in their disputes with insurers. He has litigated coverage and bad faith claims in the areas of construction defects, pollution, intellectual property claims, business interruption claims, underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage, fire and storm losses, and workers compensation insurance disputes. Mr. Gersten is a member of the state bars of Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, and is an inactive member in California. He is admitted to practice in Colorado, North Carolina, Illinois, California, U.S. States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Ninth circuits; and the U.S. States District courts in California, Illinois, Colorado and North Carolina. Mr. Gersten is a member of the CBA, DRI, ABA, ISBA and NCBA. He earned his B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. degree from Hastings College of the Law, University of California.
Speaker bio
John H. Chassaing
is an attorney with Armstrong Teasdale LLP where he advises clients on a wide variety of corporate disputes, including toxic tort, asbestos and insurance-related disputes. He is adept at handling all phases of litigation, including preparation for jury trials, and helping develop fact-specific defense strategies for each case. Mr. Chassaing has managed hundreds of matters for toxic tort and general litigation clients and has conducted depositions, negotiated in mediations, and drafted responsive pleadings and dispositive motions in asbestos-related litigation. He earned her B.S. degree from the University of Missouri. Mr. Chassaing is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois. He is a Broad Member with CyberUp.
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