Thursday, January 27th
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
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Please consider donating to Ms. Calkin’s preferred food bank, Los Angeles regional food bank.
Our special guest this week, Mary Craig Calkins, Partner at Blank Rome and Revenue Officer at ABA Litigation Section, will present:
Insurance: Everyone Needs It!
Top Tips for Protecting Your Company’s Bottom Line
Every company facing a claim or litigation should have insurance in place that can offset defense costs, arrange for the appointment of counsel, and fund a settlement or judgment. But do you have the right type of insurance for the claims that you might face, and are you taking the steps necessary to ensure that your insurance will assist when you or your company need it most? This presentation will provide an overview of the types of insurance that can protect your chances of securing insurance coverage, and will provide additional tips of what you can do to make sure your insurance will respond as an asset when you need the protection that you purchased.
Mary Craig Calkins is a partner in Blank Rome’s Los Angeles office. She has more than 30 years of coverage experience, recovering hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of policyholders in complex, high stakes directors and officers liability, entertainment and intellectual property coverage disputes, professional errors and omissions, cyber and technology risks, labor and employment matters, product liability, first-party property and business interruption losses. She advises in-house counsel, senior executives, and company management on how to maximize insurance protections. Mary is a Past President of the American College of Coverage Counsel, an honorary organization of the top insurance coverage lawyers in the U.S. and Canada. She is a leader in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, where she is former national co-chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. She currently serves as national Revenue Officer of the Litigation Section and has held leadership positions in the ABA. Mary has been recognized repeatedly as a leading practitioner by Chambers USA in the area of Insurance: Policyholder and The Best Lawyers in America® for Insurance Law and Insurance Litigation, Benchmark, and other rankings. She has been named as one of Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Most Influential Women Lawyers,” a "Top 100 Women Lawyer" in California by the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal, and as one of 50 "Women to Watch" by Business Insurance Magazine. She is also recognized by Legal Media Group: Expert Guides as a leading expert in Insurance and Reinsurance, and has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, among other recognitions. She is a frequent author and lecturer on insurance topics and serves as an arbitrator and expert witness.