Jason Klein, Managing Partner of WSHB's Colorado office, will bring down the house at American Technologies Inc's event "The Comedy and Tragedy of Claims" on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. At 10:30 a.m., Jason will share the stage with Terence Kadlec of Envista Forensics as they break down the good, the sad, and the funny sides of claims in a presentation titled "51 Shades of Gray, Ethics in Claims Handling."...

During the past year, multiple headlines and news alerts have captured the bad acts of an individual in the medical world which translates into high profile claims of sexual battery and other intentional act claims. In addition to navigating the publicity, political fallout and impact on reputation of the institutions involved, the aftermath of the litigation which ensues is huge. Constance Endelicato, a celebrated trial lawyer from the national law firm of Wood Smith Henning & Berman, will be tackling this difficult issue head on at a litigation conference of highly placed claim professionals, risk managers, general counsel and lawyers in the medical negligence area during the 2019 CLM Cyber, Management, and Professional Liability Conference which takes place at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel on July 11, 2019. ...

WSHB's Michelle Arbitrio will take to the stage at the 2019 CLM Cyber, Management, and Professional Liability Conference at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel on July 11, 2019 at 10:35 AM. This conference is a fully reinvented event that offers its participants unprecedented knowledge and access to leaders in the profession. Attendees will have a unique professional opportunity to share their expertise in partnership with other authorities from across the country while building relationships. WSHB is proud to be a Diamond Sponsor of this CLM event. ...

In the past year, high profile cases have emerged throughout the nation discussing management responses to allegations framed within the #metoo world. Strategies, perils and pitfalls which give rise to or minimize liability will be discussed at length during a widely anticipated presentation at the CLM Cyber, Management and Professional Liability Conference on July 11, 2019. National thought leader, Kelly Waters, Managing Partner of the New Jersey office of WSHB, will moderate a vigorous discussion of hot issues and practice pointers for those handling management liability issues throughout the country. ...

A panel of national thought leaders will address the hot topic of settlement versus trial in the context of a legal malpractice claim at the upcoming CLM Cyber, Management, and Professional Liability Conference at the Boston Waterfront Hotel on July 11, 2019. "Attorneys on the receiving end of a legal malpractice action likely have a decided opinion on whether to try or resolve the case," explained Phil Grennan, a nationally acclaimed litigator with the Seattle and Portland offices of WSHB. Grennan, who will lead the panel of thought leaders, explained "as retention's erode and reputations are on the line, the inclination to find justice and absolution collide with accolades to settlement."...

WSHB co-founder Stephen J. Henning will take to the stage before thousands of builders, contractors, subcontractors, insurance agents and lawyers at West Coast Casualty’s 26th Annual Construction Defect Seminar, the biggest construction conference event in the country. Hosted at the Disneyland Hotel and Resort in Anaheim, California, Mr. Henning will be sharing his decades worth of construction litigation expertise alongside Matthew Kovacs of Markel Corporation and fellow attorneys Adrienne Cohen and Jannea Rogers in a panel presentation entitled, "Disaster in the Making – Litigation Impacts from Fire, Flood, and Hurricanes" on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 10:45 a.m. ...

WSHB's Sam McDermott will be speaking at CLM's Orange County Chapter Education and Networking Event on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. Located at The Wine Artist in Lake Forest, McDermott will be discussing the use and applicability of structured settlements as a method of assisting in resolving claims and how IRS Code Section 104(a) excludes structured settlements from gross income that provides tax-free periodic payments to bridge a settlement gap when taxes reduce the total recovery. ...

Disruption in the construction industry, fuel for lawsuits in the future and perils and pitfalls for those handling litigation. This sentence captures what promises the content-rich presentation during the upcoming DRI Construction Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Nationally acclaimed attorney Stephen Henning will moderate a panel of thought leaders as they discuss the game changers which are playing out in courtrooms, newspapers and project sites throughout the nation, which give rise to emerging theories of liability, areas of exposure and sage risk management practice pointers. Joining Henning on the panel will be Phyllis Modlin from Markel Corporation, Linda Pretzel from RiverStone and Maria Quantaro with Hinshaw....

WSHB Partner Alicia Kennon will be moderating a panel entitled "He's Not My Guy: The Joint-Employer Doctrine" at DRI's Construction Law Conference on April 12, 2019 at 2 p.m. On the panel will be Jeffrey Koonankeil of CapSpecialty and Jennifer Stancil of Beazley Group. Included among the topics to be discussed are the latest developments in the joint-employer doctrine and the impact the doctrine's current version has on construction operations. The industry has been primarily concerned with avoiding or managing defect based litigation but now developers and contractors have new risk in the EPL space including wage/hour based claims, discrimination claims, harassment, and whistleblower based suits. In addition to highlighting the risks, Alicia and her co-panelists will offer attendees some practical tools for mitigating those risks for their clients and companies....