The Rapid Evolution of Cyber Liability co-hosted by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) and the Insurance Law Center Thursday, May 29, 2014, 1:30-4:30 p.m. William R. Davis Courtroom in Starr Hall, University of Connecticut School of Law.

William R. Davis Courtroom in Starr Hall, University of Connecticut School of Law.

Speakers:

Jason Glasgow from Travelers – MODERATOR

Christopher Novak from Verizon – PANELIST

Robert Wice from Beazley Group – PANELIST

Charles Bellingrath from ARC Excess & Surplus LLC – PANELIST

 

2014 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LIABILITY INSURANCE SYSTEM Co-hosted by Renmin Law School and The Insurance Law Center, The University of Connecticut School of Law at Renmin University in Beijing, China May 10, 2014.

Conference Agenda

8:30—9:00 Opening Ceremony

Host: Jia Linqing, Professor of Renmin Law School, Vice-president of the China Insurance Law Institute

Opening Addresses:

Timothy Fisher, Dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law

Yin Tian, Professor of Peking University Law School, President of the China Insurance Law Institute

Han Dayuan, Dean of Renmin Law School

9:00—9:30 Keynote Addresses

Thomas Leonardi, Commissioner of Insurance, State of Connecticut

Meng Long, Director of the Legal Department of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission

9:30—10:50 Application and Improvement of Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance

Host: Chu Beiping, Professor of Law School of Dalian Maritime University

Presentations:

1. “Imbalance between Supply and Demand of the Automobile Insurance in Different Insurance Supervision Modes”

Patricia McCoy, Director of the Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law

2. “The Protective Function of Automobile Insurance from the Perspective of Judicial Adjudication”

Liu Jianxun, Judge of Civil Trial Chamber II of the Xicheng District People’s Court in Beijing

3. “The Validity of the Family Members’ Exceptions in the Third-party Liability Insurance for Motor Vehicles”

Yue Wei, Associate Professor of Law School of Nanjing University

Response Speeches

4. “The Current Situation and Development of Hull Insurance in China”

Zheng Rui, Lecturer of Shanghai Maritime University

5. “Research on the Operation Dilemma of the Compulsory Traffic Accident Liability Insurance and the PPP Reform Pattern”

Yu Minfeng, Zking Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Ltd.

11:15—12:35 Construction and Application of Environmental and Professional Liability Insurance

Host: Chen Xin, Professor of International Business and Economics University School of Insurance, Vice-president of the China Insurance Law Institute

Presentations

1. “Environmental Liability Insurance: Opportunities and Risks”

Peter Kochenburger, Executive Director of the Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law

2. “Our Practical Exploration of Environmental Liability Insurance”

Shao Yunzhou, Vice-general-manager of the Liability Insurance Department of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited

3. “Marine Environmental Liability Insurance in China: Current Situation, Problems and Solutions”

He Lixin, Professor of Law School of Xiamen University

4. “Review of the Application and Development of Professional Liability Insurance in China”

Shi Weijin, Assistant Professor of Law School of Yantai University

5. “Contract Disputes and Clause Improvement of Medical Liability Insurance”

Zhang Junyan, Assistant Professor of RUC School of Finance

Response Speeches

6. “Thoughts on the Legal Problems of Environmental Liability Insurance”

Guo Yutao, Lawyer of Beijing LiGeFeng Law Office

7. “Problems in the Application of Environmental Liability Insurance”

Li Qingwu, Assistant Professor of International Business and Economics University School of Insurance

8. “The Current Situation of and Solutions for Attorney Liability Insurance in China”

Han Changyin, Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School

14:45—16:20 Application and Development of Liability Insurance on Food Safety

Host: Li Zhuyong, General Manager of Legal Compliance Department of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited

Presentations

1. “Food Safety and Liability Insurance”

John Cogan, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law

2. “Analysis of the Current Situation of and a Policy Proposal for Food Safety Liability Insurance in China”

Cai Yu, Vice-secretary-general of the Insurance Institute of China

3. “Argument on System Construction of Food Safety Liability Insurance and the Market Positioning of Food Safety Liability Insurance ”

Jia Linqing, Professor of Renmin Law School, Vice-president of the China Insurance Law Institute

4. “Problems with Claims Settlement Regarding Products Liability Insurance in China”

Han Yongqiang, Vice-professor, Doctor of Southwest University of Political Science & Law

Response Speeches

5. “The Urgency to Construct a Mandatory Food Safety Liability Insurance System and Suggestions for System Design”

Liu Junhai, Professor of Renmin Law School, Expert of RUC Collaborative Innovation Center of Food Safety Management

6. “Argument for the Control of Liability Insurance for Food Safety Risks ”

Li Hua, Assistant Professor of Nanjing University Law School

16:20—17:55 Application and Development of Liability Insurance on Work Safety

Host: Li Jianfei, Professor of Renmin Law School, Director of RUC Maritime Law and Insurance Law Research Institute

Presentations

1. “Enhancing Popularization and Application of Liability Insurance: Promoting Better Development of Work Safety”

Chen Guang, Director of the Regulation Department of the State Administration of Work Safety

2. “Research on Problems Concerning Liability Insurance for Work Safety in China”

Qiao Shi, Legal Compliance Department of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited

3. “Application and Limitations of Liability Insurance for Work Safety in Taiwan”

Zhuo Junxiong, Professor of Tunghai University – The College of Law

Response Speeches

4. “The Contribution of Insurance Brokers in Promoting the Development of Liability Insurance in Work Safety”

Xiong Weiguan, Changcheng Insurance Brokers Ltd.

5. “Remarks on Issues Involving Liability Insurance for Work Safety”

Xing Haibao, Professor of Renmin Law School, Vice-director of RUC Maritime Law and Insurance Law Research Institute

The UConn School of Business and School of Law invite you to attend New Challenges in Risk Management and Compliance: Common Concerns for Managers and Lawyers, Friday, April 25, 2014 at the UConn School of Law, Starr Hall (Corner Fern & Sherman Streets) Hartford, CT.

Noon: Welcome

12:15 p.m.: Luncheon Panel — Career Opportunities in Risk Management and Compliance

Carole Olson Gates, Director, Risk Management & Insurance, International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Kristin LeBlond, Counsel, The Investment Group, The Hartford

Jeyaraj (Jay) Vadiveloo, Senior Research Consultant, Towers Watson and Director, University of Connecticut Goldenson Center for

Actuarial Research

Moderator: Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law

1:45 p.m.: Global Human Rights Compliance

Marcia Narine, Assistant Professor of Law, St. Thomas University School of Law

Mark Nordstrom, Senior Counsel – Labor and Employment Law, General Electric Company

John F. Sherman, III, General Counsel, Senior Advisor, and Secretary, SHIFT: Putting Principles into Practice

Moderator: Molly Land, University of Connecticut School of Law

3:30 p.m.: Creating a Culture of Compliance

Speaker:

John J. Preli, Director and Trust & Compliance Officer, IBM Trust & Compliance

4:15 p.m.: Corporate Governance Up the Ladder: A Risk Management and Compliance Perspective

Glenn Gazdik, Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager, Asset/Liability Management Team, The Hartford

Christopher Lewis, Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, IFG Companies, Inc.

Moderator: Stephen Park, University of Connecticut School of Business

5:00 p.m.: Conclusion

Admission is free; complimentary lunch and parking provided. For questions, please contact Patricia Carbray at patricia.carbray@uconn.edu or 860-570-5184.

If you require reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact the Law School at 860-570-5130 or via email at law.access@uconn.edu at least two weeks in advance.

A day-long symposium hosted by The Insurance Law Center and The Connecticut Insurance Law Journal at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Starr Hall on Thursday, April 3, 2014 from 8:00 am – 4:15 pm.

The revolution in the technology of data known as “Big Data” poses technological and organizational challenges for the field of insurance. Will we see a new paradigm of insurance that puts data at the center of its activity (and no longer only risk)? Similarly, which values, which norms, which regulation should govern the new world of data? This latter question has important implications for the regulation of data (until now little experienced in the insurance context): the ownership of data, their use in risk classification and evidence-based healthcare, and protections against the abuse of data (privacy and discrimination). In this symposium, we will explore these issues, bringing together the experience of insurers, scholars, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.

8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:45 Welcome to the Law School

9:00 Big Data and the Paradigm of Insurance

Eric Brat, Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group

Francois Ewald, Scholar in Residence and International Research Fellow, University of Connecticut School of Law

Cyrille de Montgolfier, Senior Vice President European and Public Affairs, AXA Group

Moderator: Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law

10:15 Break

10:30 Big Data, Risk Classification, and Adverse Selection

Christophe Geissler, Chief Scientific Officer, Quinten

Peter Siegelman, Roger Sherman Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law

Rick Swedloff, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law—Camden

Moderator: Peter Kochenburger, University of Connecticut School of Law

11:45 Luncheon

Luncheon Keynote Address

The Hon. George Jepsen, Connecticut Attorney General

1:30 Big Data and the Consequences for the Management of Health Care

Tom Baker, William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Law School

JudyAnn Bigby, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research and past Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sharona Hoffman, Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of the Law-Medicine Center at Case Western Reserve University

Moderator: John Aloysius Cogan, Jr., University of Connecticut School of Law

3:00 Global Regulatory Implications of Big Data in Insurance: Social Values and Norms

Matthew F. Fitzsimmons, Assistant Attorney General and Chair, Privacy Task Force, Office of the Attorney General, State of Connecticut

Andromachi Georgosouli, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

Romain Paserot, Director of Cross-functional and Specialized Supervision, Autorit  de contr le prudentiel, France

Moderator: Francois Ewald, University of Connecticut School of Law

4:15 Conference Conclusion

 

The Insurance Coverage 101 CLE is sponsored by the UConn Law School & The Insurance Law Center, CBA Insurance Law Section, CBA Young Lawyers Section on Thursday, January 23, 2013 from 12:30 – 5:00 pm in the William Davis Courtroom in Starr Hall on the Law School Campus.

About the Program:  Learning the nuts and bolts of insurance law is the first step toward successfully litigating claims involving insurance disputes. Panelists will share the ins and outs of insurance policy construction and the specialized law governing coverage disputes.

Who You Will Learn From: The seasoned panel includes law professors, attorneys who represent insurers or policyholders, a former Administrative Manager of the Connecticut Insurance Department and a forensic accountant specializing in insurance recovery.

You Will Learn:

How policies are constructed

How to read an insurance policy to protect your clients’ needs

How to determine whether the claim falls under the policy

When to file insurance coverage lawsuit, particularly declaratory judgment actions

How to protect or defend an insurer in a breach of contract or bad faith action

How to best posture an insurance lawsuit for successful motion practice or a trial on the merits

Agenda

12:00 Registration and Lunch

12:30 Anatomy of an Insurance Policy and More

Topics include: The Concept of Fortuity, Types of Insurance, Anatomy of an Insurance Policy, Rules of Policy Interpretation, and Rescission and Cancellation

Moderator: Gregory D. Podolak, Saxe Doernberger & Vita PC, Hamden

Panelists:

Elizabeth (Festa) Ahlstrand, Seiger Gfeller Laurie LLP, West Hartford

Mark Franklin, Franklin Regulatory Consulting LLC, Southbury

Ryan Suerth, Ryan Suerth LLC, Madison

1:30 First-Party Property Insurance

Topics include: Homeowners, Commercial Property, and Builders Risk, National Flood Insurance and Claim Analysis

Moderator: Regen O’Malley, O’Connell Attmore & Morris LLC, Hartford

Panelists: Wystan M. Ackerman, Robinson & Cole LLP, Hartford

Karen Cusato, Cusato Consulting, Westport

William D. Goddard, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford

Steven B. Ryan, Halloran & Sage LLP, Hartford

2:30 Break

2:45 Third-Party Liability Insurance

Topics include: Duty to Defend, Duty to Indemnify, Claims Made vs. Occurrence-based Coverage, Conditions, Commercial General Liability,

Professional Liability, Umbrella/Excess, Contractual Risk Transfer and Claim Analysis

Moderator: Peter Kochenburger, Executive Director, Insurance Law Center, Director of Graduate Programs, Associate Clinical Professor of Law,

University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford

Panelists: Marilyn B. Fagelson, Murtha Cullina LLP, New Haven

Ernest J. Mattei, Day Pitney LLP, Hartford

Stuart D. Rosen, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford

3:45 Insurance Coverage Litigation

Topics include: Breach of Contract, Declaratory Judgment, Extra-Contractual Liability, Implied Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing,

Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices and Unfair Insurance Practices Acts

Moderator: Michael T. McCormack, Hinckley Allen, Hartford

Panelists: John L. Altieri, Jr., Boutin & Altieri PLLC, Fairfield

Thomas O. Farrish, Day Pitney LLP, Hartford

Rachel L. Priester, The Hartford, Hartford

5:00 Networking Reception (Janet B. Blumberg Hall)

 

The Regulators in Professional Liability symposium is hosted by the Professional Liability Underwriting Society and by the Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law.

Date and Time: 12/11/2013

Location: William R. Davis Courtroom, Starr Hall

Keynote Speaker:  Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Leonardi

In this symposium, hosted by the Hartford Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) and the Insurance Law Center, several current and former state insurance commissioners and experienced regulatory lawyers will discuss the impact of regulators on the insurance market.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

1:00 Registration Begins

1:30 – 4:00 p.m. Program

Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Thomas B. Leonardi, Insurance Commissioner, State of Connecticut

Moderator: James Wrynn, Goldberg Segalla LLP, former New York State Superintendent of Insurance

Panelists:

David Allen, Vice Present, Gen Re

Mehvish Femia, Regulatory Counsel, Beazley

Kevin LaCroix,Executive Vice Present, RT ProExec

Join us at the 2nd annual Connecticut Risk Management Conference which has been designed to align risk management with strategy. This conference will bring together professionals engaged in risk management, senior management, and regulators, as well as faculty members and students in UConn’s MS in Financial Risk Management (MSFRM) Program and the Insurance Law Center at UConn Law School.

We are especially pleased to announce our welcoming speaker, Luis Custodio (Chief Risk Officer, IBM), and keynote speaker, William D. Cohan, TV commentator, Vanity Fair contributing editor, and best-selling author of 3 gripping books (The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co, House of Cards, and Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World).

This conference, organized by UConn’s highly successful MSFRM graduate degree program and the Insurance Law Center, is being sponsored by several multinational corporations in the greater Stamford and Hartford, Connecticut areas.

When:

Thursday, November 14, 2013

7:30 AM – 4:45 PM

Where:

Stamford Marriott

243 Tresser Boulevard

Stamford, Connecticut

Pricing:

$100.00 per person

$75.00 for CFA Members

$50.00 for current UConn student

Agenda:

7:30 – 8:00 AM Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30 AM Inaugural Comments Luis Custodio (CRO, IBM)

8:30 – 9:30 AM

Session 1:

The New Normal Challenges in Managing a Diversified Retirement Portfolio Jayesh

Bhansali (Head of Global Derivatives and Quantitative Portfolio Management, TIAA-CREF)

9:30 – 10:30 AM

Session 2:

Analysis of Real World Signals Dr. Amitabha Sen (Private Consultant)

10:30 – 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:45 AM

Session 3: Meaningful Delivery of Risk Management (Panel Session) Moderator: Patricia A.

McCoy (Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and Director, Insurance Law Center, School of Law)

Speakers: Erika Crandall (Head of Technology Risk Management, Bank of the West)

Ann Rodriguez (Head of Enterprise and Operational Risk, GE Capital)

11:45 – 12:45 PM

Buffet Lunch and Welcome Remarks John Elliott (Dean, UConn School of Business) and Timothy

Fisher (Dean, UConn Law School)

12:45 – 1:30 PM Keynote Address: William D. Cohan (Editor, Vanity Fair)

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Session 4: Managing Compliance Risk Andrea Kersken (Senior Director, Enterprise and Financial

Risk Management, IBM Corporation) and John Preli (Director, Trust and Compliance Officer, IBM

Corporation)

2:30 – 2:45 PM Coffee Break

2:45 – 3:45 PM

Session 5: Enterprise Risk Management (Panel Session) Moderator: Susan Weber (Director, ERM,

Northeast Utilities)

Speakers: Charles Jones (Strategy and Risk Manager from UIL Holdings Corporation)

Richard Muzikar (Director, ERM, Con Edison)

Alexis Harley (Head of US Risk Management, National Grid)

3:45 – 4:45 PM

Session 6: Using ERM to Improve Strategic Decisions (Panel Session) Dan Herd (Executive

Advisor, CEB Risk Management Leadership Council) and Navin Maharaj (RM Consultant, Toronto

Hydro)

 

For additional information:

Click here for a detailed conference schedule

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Questions? Contact Caitlin Orocu at 203-251-8475 or corocu@business.uconn.edu.

The Insurance Law Center cordially invites you to its fall 2013 symposium, THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF INSURANCE, in the William F. Starr Hall, University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut on Friday, October 4, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Insurance law and insurance economics each have long and distinguished scholarly histories, but participants in the two disciplines have not always communicated well across academic silos. As a result, legal analysis of insurance tends to ignore or simplify the economic implications of doctrinal rules and regulatory approaches. For example, the use of behavioral economics to understand anomalies in insurance demand has generated important insights that legal scholars and regulators are only beginning to assimilate. Meanwhile, economic models of insurance are often too divorced from legal realities and institutional details to offer clear policy guidance. Thus, careful study of different companies’ homeowners insurance policies reveal significant differences among them that present challenges for economic models of competition in insurance markets. In conjunction with the forthcoming publication of Edward Elgar’s Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Insurance (Daniel Schwarcz and Peter Siegelman, eds.), this symposium aims to encourage more policy-relevant insurance economics scholarship and more economically-sophisticated legal scholarship by promoting conversation across legal and economic disciplines. To this end, the conference brings together leading scholars in insurance law and in insurance economics to discuss issues at the heart of both disciplines. Examples include the role of government in regulating insurance solvency and providing disaster insurance, the role of courts in interpreting insurance policies and regulating their content, and the role of insurance in shaping legal liability. Our hope is that the conference will better equip participants across disciplinary categories to integrate the new insights of insurance economics with the flourishing body of research in insurance law, so that each discipline can recognize and build on the contributions of the other.

8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:45 Welcome To The Law School

9:00 Why And How Do Consumers Purchase Insurance?

Howard C. Kunreuther, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania & Mark V. Pauly, The Wharton School, University of

Pennsylvania: Behavioral Economics & Insurance:Policy, Legislative, and Regulatory Principles and Solutions

Daniel Schwarcz, University of Minnesota Law School & Peter Siegelman, University of Connecticut School of Law:The Law & Economics of

Insurance Intermediaries

Joshua C. Teitelbaum, Georgetown University Law Center: Optimal Design of Insurance Policies

Moderator: Patricia A. McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law

10:15 Break

10:30 The Role Of The State In Insurance Markets

Kenneth S. Abraham, University of Virginia School of Law & Pierre-Andr  Chiappori, Department of Economics, Columbia

University: Classification Risk and Its Regulation

Scott E. Harrington, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania: U.S. Health Insurance and Health Care Reform

James Kwak, University of Connecticut School of Law: Social Insurance as Insurance

Moderator: John Aloysius Cogan, Jr., University of Connecticut School of Law

11:45 Luncheon

Luncheon Keynote Address

Hon. Thomas B. Leonardi, Insurance Commissioner, State of Connecticut

1:30 Insurance Regulation

Martin Grace, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University: Economics of State vs. Federal Regulation

Robert W. Klein, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University & Elizabeth F. Brown, J. Mack Robinson College of Business,

Georgia State University: Insurance Solvency Regulation: Present Structure and Future Promise

Moderator: Peter Kochenburger, University of Connecticut School of Law

2:20 Break

2:35 Courts And Insurance

Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School & Kyle D. Logue, The University of Michigan Law School:Mandatory and Non-Mandatory

Implied-in-Law Terms in Insurance Contracts

Michelle Boardman, George Mason University School of Law: Interpretation and Construction of Insurance Contracts

Richard Squire, Fordham University School of Law: Duty to Settle

Moderator: Daniel Schwarcz, University of Minnesota Law School

3:45 Conference Conclusion

Continental breakfast and lunch provided to those who register by Monday September 30, 2013. Registration is free. To register, call Patricia

Carbray at 860-570-5184 or write patricia.carbray@uconn.edu. Out-of-town guests may book rooms at the Hartford Downtown Marriott.

Please join the Insurance Law Center at 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2013, for a workshop by Professor Jenny Steele, an insurance law expert at York Law School at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Professor Steele will present her work titled “The Compatibility of Insurance and Obligations.” Her talk will take place in Blumberg Hall, which is on the second floor of Starr Hall on the Law School campus. A reception honoring Professor Steele and our adjunct insurance law professors will follow immediately afterwards.

The Leverhulme Trust recently awarded Professor Steele a three-year Major Research Fellowship on Liability, Insurance and Society: the Politics and Economy of Private Law. Her forthcoming book with Rob Merkin, titledInsurance and the Law of Obligations, will be published by Oxford University Press.

On June 14, 2013, the Insurance Law Center will host law professors from across the country for the 2013 Junior Scholars Workshop on Financial Services Law. This competition is open to law faculty with less than six years of teaching experience.  The workshop participants may submit papers on any of a wide array of topics, including:

Banking, securities, insurance, and commodities regulation;

Regulatory issues concerning the shadow banking system;

Consumer financial services and the regulation of those services;

Payment systems and other topics of commercial law related to commercial banking;

Legal implications of bank-based versus capital-markets-based systems of finance; and

Systemic financial risk.

Authors whose papers are selected will be invited to discuss their work with each other and senior scholars in the field at this all-day event.