Important Topics to be Discussed:
• Keynote Presentation by John W. Oxendine:
View from the Insurance Commissioner’s Office
• Commercial General Liability 101
• Builder's Risk 101
• Insurance and Risk Allocation Provisions
• OCIP and CCIP 101
• Duty to Defend / Reservation of Rights
• Agents and Brokers 101
• Good Faith Ethics 101
• Emerging Issues in Construction Insurance
• Allocation of Defense and Indemnity Benefits between
Covered and Non-Covered Claims
• Stipulated Judgements
• Mediation and Settlement of Coverage & Bad Faith
Disputes in Construction Litigation
Who Should Attend:
Insurance Professionals
Real Estate Appraisers
Contractors
Attorneys
Architects
Engineers
Land Use Planners
Anyone Involved in the Construction Industry
Thursday, May. 7, 2009
| 9:00 | Introduction and Overview - Day One |
Construction Insurance 101
Carlton Fields
Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP
| 9:10 | Keynote Presentation: View from the
Insurance Commissioner’s Office |
Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner
| 9:40 | Commercial General Liability 101 |
Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP
| 11:30 | Architects and Engineers 101 |
Ames & Gough
| 1:00 | Insurance and Risk Allocation Provisions
in Industry Standard Form Contract
and other Additional Forms;
Documents and Forms (including AIA
and Consensus DOCS Families) |
Hendrick Phillips Salzman & Flatt PC
Owner Controlled and Contractor Controlled
Insurance Programs
Smith Currie & Hancock LLP
| 2:00 | Duty to Defend/Reservation of Rights |
Fellows LaBriola LLP
Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP
| 3:30 | Good Faith Ethics 101 |
Good Faith Duties of Insured and Insurer in
the Settlement of Construction Defect Claims
Carlton Fields
| 4:30 | Questions and Answers |
Friday, May. 8, 2009
| 9:00 | Introduction and Overview - Day Two |
Carlton Fields
Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP
| 9:10 | Emerging Issues in Construction Insurance |
Are Construction Defects Covered Under a
Contractor’s CGL Policy?
Ames & Gough
| 9:45 | Allocation of Defense and Indemnity
Benefits between Covered and Non-
Covered Claims |
Carlton Fields
| 10:45 | Construction Defect Insurance Currently
Available in the Market (CG 22 94, etc.) |
Lexington Insurance,
Boston, MA
| 11:15 | Goings on Down South: The Florida
Experience |
Carlton Fields,
Tampa, FL
| 1:00 | Construction Insurance as Impacted by Bankruptcy |
Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP
| 1:45 | Presentation of a Contractor’s Property
Insurance Claim: Perspectives from
Both Sides |
Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP
Subrogation Rights: Last Dollar, First Dollar, or
Somewhere Inbetween; Bankruptcy
Alston & Bird LLP
| 3:45 | Mediation and Settlement of Coverage &
Bad Faith Disputes in Construction
Litigation |
Construction Defects
The Reid Firm LLC
| 4:30 | Questions and Answers |
James H. Cox, Program Co-Chair, is a shareholder at Carlton Fields. His 25 years of experience include class actions and complex litigation, business torts, entertainment law, products liability and wrongful death, intellectual property law, ERISA, unfair competition, and D & O liability and securities fraud.
Jennifer W. Fletcher, Program Co-Chair, a partner with Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, serves as Team Leader of the firm’s Construction Industry Practice Group and is a member of its Executive Committee and its Litigation Group. Her practice involves construction industry issues exclusively.
Gregg Bundschuh, Executive Vice President and Equity Partner with Ames & Gough, is an expert in issues related to complex construction projects and the interrelationship of contractual risk and insurance. His 25-year career includes experience as a construction lawyer, insurance broker and risk consultant.
C. David Butler, Of Counsel with Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP, has litigated bankruptcy cases in the southeast for
over 30 years. He has been recognized as a bankruptcy specialist
in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Scott D. Cahalan is a partner in the Construction Litigation
Section of Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP. His practice primarily
consists of drafting and reviewing construction contracts, and
construction litigation, arbitration, and mediation.
Shattuck “Tucker” Ely, a partner with Fellows LaBriola LLP, handles a broad-based commercial litigation practice with an emphasis in representing policyholders in insurance coverage matters. For the past three years, he has been selected as a “Georgia Rising Star” by Atlanta Magazine.
Ronald J. Garber, a partner with Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP, has over 30 years experience in construction law. He assists clients on a wide variety of public and private construction projects in preventing and resolving disputes.
Thomas Grandmaison is a Vice President of Construction
Liability and Product Line Manager with Lexington Insurance Company in Boston, one of the world’s leading property and
casualty organizations.
David R. Hendrick, senior partner with Hendrick Phillips Salzman & Flatt PC has engaged in over 30 years of legal
counseling, claim and dispute resolution, and litigation matters in the construction industry, and is a member of the Construction
Industry Large Complex Case Panel of Arbitrators of the
American Arbitration Association.
Josh Howell is an assistant vice president and a broker with Ames & Gough. He handles the property/casualty insurance needs of clients of both the Atlanta and the Washington, D.C., offices, as well as the professional liability needs of our clients in the Atlanta area.
Kirk D. Johnston, an attorney with Smith Currie & Hancock LLP, focuses his practice almost exclusively in the areas of construction litigation and insurance coverage. He has many years of experience representing owners, general contractors, architects, etc. on a wide range of construction projects.
David M. Leonard, a shareholder with Carlton Fields, has
over 25 years experience in civil litigation, arbitration, and
negotiation of disputes. He has handled general commercial
litigation, complex insurance, reinsurance, bad faith claims,
contract and warranty claims, and engineering disputes.
John W. Oxendine, Keynote Speaker, was elected Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner in 1994 and is now serving in his fourth term. He is also the Industrial Loan Commissioner and Comptroller General, and has received numerous awards for his public service.
Luis Prats, a shareholder in the Tampa office of Carlton Fields, is a board-certified construction attorney who represents a
diverse clientele in complex commercial disputes, including all
types of construction law and litigation.
George C. Reid is the founding member of The Reid Firm LLC. For more than 30 years, his legal practice has focused on the litigation, arbitration
and mediation of complex construction and business disputes. He has extensive experience in the drafting and negotiation of construction
and other procurement contracts. His construction claims and contracting
experience has related to a wide variety of commercial and residential
projects.
John I. Spangler, III, Chair of Alston & Bird LLP's Construction and Government Contracts Group, focuses on
representing contractors, owners and design professionals in
the negotiation and drafting of design and construction contracts,
and in litigating, arbitrating and mediating construction disputes.
Robert B. Wedge is a partner with Shapiro Fussell Wedge & Martin LLP. His practice areas include coverage litigation,
construction and commercial litigation, prosecution and defense
of professional liability actions involving attorneys, architects
and engineers.
Neil L. Wilcove, a partner at Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, practices in the Construction and Litigation Section representing
contractors, subcontractors, owners, developers, designers,
architects, engineers, and businesses. He handles payment
disputes, delay claims, and construction and design defect cases.
This seminar is approved for the following homestudy credits:
Georgia Commission on Continuing Lawyer Competency
10.7 Regular CLE Hours
If you are purchasing only certain portions of the seminar then the full credit amount does not apply. If you need assistance calculating the number of credits available for a certain session please call our office at 800-574-4852. If this seminar has not been approved for the credits you require, let us know and we will look into it for you.
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