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WebinarsJason Jaramillo2023-03-20T20:07:37+00:00

WEBINARS AND DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATIONS

Covering a wide range of important subjects, our library of highly informative YHC Webinars and Downloadable Presentations are developed by Your House Counsel^® as well as by individual Member Firms. We invite you to review and download our informative and widely respected Webinars and Presentations.

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Construction Defect 101

Now more than ever, learning how to investigate, evaluate and defend Construction Defect Claims is critical. With the retirements we are seeing, many claim departments are losing their most experienced Claim Professionals. Join us to learn how you can bridge the gap in your claims department.

While many states have laws protecting an insured from unfair claim practices, these laws vary by jurisdiction and cause complications for insurers. How does an insurer avoid bad faith? What unique risks are there in multi-jurisdictional bad faith? What are the hazards of conflicting laws? What can be done if the plaintiff is acting in bad faith? What are the national trends?

The Changing Face of Insurance Defense Counsel:
From Panel Counsel to Diversity
and Inclusion Pograms

Presented at the 2nd YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Over the last few decades, how defense counsel is chosen – from friends and relatives to panel counsel and regional and national firms to organizations like Your House Counsel® – has evolved. What defense counsel looks like is also evolving. Creating opportunities for diverse candidates is a welcome continuation of that exchange. Join us to learn what that means to us and how it impacts the insurance industry.

Brain Injuries and Eye Examinations –
What Can We Learn?

Presented at the 2nd YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

While many states have laws protecting an insured from unfair claim practices, these laws vary by jurisdiction and cause complications for insurers. How does an insurer avoid bad faith? What unique risks are there in multi-jurisdictional bad faith? What are the hazards of conflicting laws? What can be done if the plaintiff is acting in bad faith? What are the national trends?

COVID Claims –
A Survey And What To Expect

Presented at the 2nd YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

It’s not just healthcare facilities that are seeing Covid claims. Whether it’s negligence and personal injury claims or Workers’ Compensation claims, join us to see what we are seeing and what you can expect.

Litigation for Claims Professionals

Presented at the 2nd YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Litigation should not be a mystery. You may have heard it said that a lawsuit is just a claim dressed up in a tuxedo (do people even wear them anymore?). What you need to defend your case can be second nature. Making that assignment, transferring the knowledge from claims to defense counsel and what time critical events you need to be aware of is not. Join us and unravel the litigation mystery and make sure you are prepared for the process.

Cyber Claims and Acts of War:
The Viasat Comsat Hack
Over Ukraine

Could a Cyber Insurance claim for Business Interruption be denied under an Act of War exclusion provision?

On February 24, 2022 at about 6am Moscow/Kyev time, a Russian cyber attack disabled a satellite-based internet service that covered Western Europe and part of North Africa. The Ukraine Police and Armed Forces were known users of that particular service, and the Russian Aerospace and Ground Forces had started invading Ukraine about one hour earlier.

More than 30,000 customers across Europe and Africa were affected by the outage, including Enercon, a German energy utility that controlled 5,800 wind turbine towers using this service, and for whom nearly 90 days were needed to restore full service.

This session will review the details and consequences of the KA-SAT cyber attack, the federal precedents for upholding or denying an Act of War insurance exclusion provision, and the applicability of these precedents in both cyber warfare and armed conflict.

Construction Defect Coverage

Construction Defect litigation presents coverage challenges that are unique and cumbersome and can be daunting to claims professionals that are not familiar with the field. This presentation will provide an overview of coverage for construction defect litigation in California, Arizona and Texas including a discussion of policy exclusions cited the most to deny coverage.

Privacy in the Workplace

Common law and state and federal statute define employees’ privacy rights in the workplace, employers’ duties to protect employee data, and limits on employers’ monitoring of employees’ real-world and online activities, interception of communications, and accessing social media posts. How far can an employer go in an effort to protect its security and ensure that employees’ work is getting done? Protecting employee data has become more challenging in this era of cyber breaches and data incidents. Personnel files, medical files, tax info, credit reports, criminal history and any records of Employer-Employee Assistance Programs must be protected from inappropriate disclosure, both internally and externally. Are you aware of your obligations as an employer, and prepared to manage the risks of maintaining such files?

This session will review the issues and rights under a number of state and federal laws, to provide not only guidance for appropriate employment practices, but also an assessment of the risks and management options.

Non-Standard Auto
Strategies for Cost Effective Defense –
Setting the Stage for a
Win-Win Outcome

This course provides attorneys, claims professionals, underwriters and investigators with the general knowledge necessary to handle the unique legal and expense issues presente, along with the challenges often faced as it relates to litigated matters where the defendant carries a minimum limit, non-standard automobile policy.

Subrogation
Maximizing Recoveries
& Avoiding Pitfalls

In the context of insurance, subrogation is the legal or equitable principal by which a carrier “steps into the shoes” of its insured after having made payment on a claim.The art of subrogation is an opportunity for a carrier to recover money paid under its policy and allow the ultimate burden of a loss to be borne by the responsible party. Subrogation is not an economical or viable pursuit on all losses. However, with prompt and thorough investigation and awareness of both legal and practical road blocks to recovery, the effort can be performed economically while adding significant amounts of money back to the bottom line of your company.

Autonomous Vehicles:
Emerging Technology,
Meet Insurance

If 94% of all motor vehicle accidents are due to human error, can driver-assist and self-driving technologies make accidents less likely to occur? How will these technologies change how automotive claims are raised and defended? Please join us as we discuss issues in insuring autonomous vehicles.

Worker’s Compensation Lien
Recovery, Subrogation
And PIP Interplay

In the context of insurance, subrogation is the legal or equitable principal by which a carrier “steps into the shoes” of its insured after having made payment on a claim. The art of subrogation is an opportunity for a carrier to recover money paid under its policy and allow the ultimate burden of a loss to be borne by the responsible party. Subrogation is not an economical or viable pursuit on all losses. However, with prompt and thorough investigation and awareness of both legal and practical road blocks to recovery, the effort can be performed economically and add to the bottom line.

Indemnity and Other Contractual
Risk-Shifting Devices —
What Are You Really Getting?

Service contracts, leases, purchase orders, and other business agreements often contain provisions which attempt to shift losses from one party to another. Understanding these provisions can be crucial when litigation arises down the road. The presentation will include a general overview with a focus on the law of Missouri and Texas.

Best Practices for
Mediation Preparation

Mediation is, with ever-increasing and greater regularity, a method for the resolution of matters in suit. In some jurisdictions, trial courts are permitted to order that the parties Mediate. In others, mediation is a prerequisite to obtaining a trial date. And in any event, trial courts in most every jurisdiction “strongly encourage” mediation, whether with the assigned trial court Judge as mediator, through the services of a court appointed mediator or through private mediation. This presentation identifies and discusses best practices with a goal of preparing for and presenting during any mediation.

Child Victims Act Litigation

The focus of this presentation is the protection of privilege for key aspects of a pre-suit investigation with an eye towards protection of pre-suit witness statements and pre-suit expert reports. The webinar presentation is geared towards best practices in protecting pre-suit investigations when litigation is reasonably anticipated, and to give an overview of how these privileges are treated across the country.

Protecting Privilege for
Pre-Suit Investigations

In recent years, many states have enacted legislation to address the injustices that childhood sexual assault victims face due to the rigid restrictions of sex abuse statutes of limitations. This presentation covers the CVA in each state, identifies which allow claims to be filed against institutions that may have been involved in the abuse, and explains which states have retroactive look back periods for claims and which have extended or opened up statute of limitations into the future. The webinar also explains the wealth of coverage problems resulting from these statutes.

Reservation of Rights

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Prepared and presented by two of our Member Firms, the presentation covers all salient areas, including: Notice, Content, Waiver/Estoppel, Reimbursement in Reservation of Rights Context, Declaratory Judgment, Conflicts of Interest, Cumis Counsel, and What Is The Trend?

COVID-19
Insurance Coverage Trends

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Among the topics covered are the types of arguments policyholders use to procure insurance coverage both for their own damages and to defend themselves against third-party lawsuits; procedural mechanisms policy-holders use to pool resources and bring a quicker resolution to their cases, including class actions, consolidation and multidistrict litigation.

Establishing and Enforcing
Drug Policies in the Age of
“Legalized” Marijuana
Considerations for
Employers and Insurers

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Currently, marijuana is illegal under the United States Control Substance Act. In 1998, medical cannabis was legalized on a state level. Medical cannabis can be prescribed by a doctor to reduce nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy, improve appetite in people with HIV/AIDS, reduce chronic pain and muscle spasms and treat severe forms of epilepsy. If an employee is asking for an accommodation at work under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) how can a company respond? How does an employer establish and enforce drug policies? How do insurers and underwriters take all of these issues into consideration?

Fraud Spotlight: Indicators of Fraud in All Lines of Claims:
You Know It When You See It

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

Suspicious insurance claims have certain common attributes. The insurance industry and anti-fraud organizations have collected and organized these common attributes into lists of indicators, or red flags, of fraud. Join us as we discuss indicators of fraud in particular lines of claims, including: Personal Injury, Automobile Property Damage, Worker’s Compensation and Arson.

Nursing Home Liability
Post COVID-19

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

This webinar discusses the common types of nursing home claims, nursing homes response to COVID-19, claims against nursing homes arising from COVID-19 illness and death, Federal and State regulations and immunities, differences amongst jurisdictions, and important information to claims handlers.

Cyber Security,
First American Title, and
NYS DFS Part 500

Presented at the YHC
“Success Is The Point”
Virtual Educational Symposium

This webinar covers the cyber security case study of First American Title Insurance Co.; it provides an overview of the case and subsequent cyber security regulations imposed by NYS DFS in its Part 500 on banking, financial and insurance entities doing business in New York State.
We also discuss the charges brought against First American Title, and
examine how this case would be handled by other regulators – federal agencies, and state attorneys general under cyber-related statutes in Ohio, Texas, and Mississippi.