Insurance Law

Beyond the Smoke Screen: Uncovering the Truth in Bad Faith Cases

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1 hours 30 minutes
Marni Berger
Kevin Dreher
With Marni Berger from Kline & Specter + 1 other
Recorded February 05, 2025
Product ID 99927

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Overview

Pierce Through Defensive Discovery Moves to Get the Evidence You Need

Assertions of privilege, document dumping, delay tactics - insurers have a number of tactics when it comes to limiting damaging disclosures and protecting the company's interests. This guide will provide you with the tools and strategies you need to uncover the truth despite their efforts to thwart you. Get the evidence you need to build a strong bad faith case - register today!

  • Know what to look for and where to find it.
  • Discover how to counter insurers' favorite defensive discovery tactics in bad faith cases.
  • Reveal crafty deposition strategies and questions to break through witnesses' defenses.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. What Insurers Don't Want You to Find
  2. Counteracting Defensive Discovery Moves by Insurers
    1. Assertions of Work Product or Claim File Privilege
    2. Motion Practice to Limit Discovery
    3. Delay Tactics
    4. Document Dumping
    5. Concealment of Evidence
    6. Know When the Insurer is Using Settlement Offers to Avoid Disclosure
  3. Finding and Getting the Most Out of Experts
  4. Defeating Defensive Deposition Tactics Used by Insurance Companies and Adjusters
  5. Deposition Strategies and Questions to Uncover Concealed Information

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Product ID 99927

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Arizona CLE Approved 1.5 Total
California CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 2 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Florida CLE Approved 2 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Iowa CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Kansas CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Louisiana CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Maine CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 1.8 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Montana CLE Approved 1.5 Total
North Dakota CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 1.5 Total
New York CLE Approved 3.5 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 2 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 1.5 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Texas CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Utah CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Washington CLE Approved 1.5 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 1.5 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 1.8 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 1.5 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Beyond the Smoke Screen: Uncovering the Truth in Bad Faith Cases

    1. What Insurers Don't Want You to Find
    2. Counteracting Defensive Discovery Moves by Insurers
      1. Assertions of Work Product or Claim File Privilege
      2. Motion Practice to Limit Discovery
      3. Delay Tactics
      4. Document Dumping
      5. Concealment of Evidence
      6. Know When the Insurer is Using Settlement Offers to Avoid Disclosure
    3. Finding and Getting the Most Out of Experts
    4. Defeating Defensive Deposition Tactics Used by Insurance Companies and Adjusters
    5. Deposition Strategies and Questions to Uncover Concealed Information

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. Paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Marni Berger
Marni
Berger
Kline & Specter
Kevin B Dreher
Kevin B.
Dreher
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Speaker bio
Marni Berger

Marni Berger

Kline & Specter
Marni Berger

is a partner at Anapol Weiss who focuses her legal practice on advocating for abuse victims, fighting for individuals denied insurance coverage, and securing recovery for cases involving medical negligence, birth injuries, and product liability. She is passionate about helping the most vulnerable members of the population in matters involving the subject of sexual assault and trafficking, institutional and domestic child abuse, Title IX and civil rights violations. Ms. Berger is also dedicated to holding insurers and insurance brokers accountable for procuring inadequate coverage and failing to provide the coverage owed. She frequently lectures on emerging issues affecting victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse and overcoming the insurance hurdles that oftentimes exist in cases involving such abuse. Ms. Berger earned her B.A. degree from The George Washington University and her J.D. degree from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

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Kevin B Dreher

Kevin B. Dreher

Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Kevin Dreher

is the co-chair of the Insurance Recovery Group at Barnes & Thornburg. He is a litigator and trial lawyer, having focused his practice for more than 20 years on insurance recovery on behalf of policyholders, complex commercial litigation, and claim/dispute-related counseling. Mr. Dreher represents policyholders and other commercial parties throughout the United States and abroad, having recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for policyholders. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, his M.A. degree from Loyola University Chicago and his J.D. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law where he was editor-in-chief of The Elder Law Journal. Mr. Dreher is admitted to practice in Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

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