LARIMS | Los Angeles Risk Insurance Management Society

Event Registration

"Hot Topics and Recent Developments: Avoiding Coverage Pitfalls and Obtaining Full Value of Insurance Assets"

When

Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Program Time:11:30 A.M.
Adjourn Time:1:30 P.M.

Cost

Registered and paid in advance:	$49
At the door registration:	$65

Venue

Beverly Garland Holiday Inn
4222 Vineland Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91602

Guest Speaker(s):
Kirk Pasich - Dickstein Shapiro,

Event Details:
Avoiding Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege that Otherwise May Happen from Communications with Insurers
Obtaining Coverage for Cyber Losses
Obtaining Coverage for Government Investigations and SEC Claims
Finding an Insurer's Duty to Defend When It Might Seem Not to Exist
Obtaining Coverage through Court Decisions Narrowing the Scope of Exclusions

Speaker(s):

Kirk Pasich - Dickstein Shapiro

Kirk Pasich is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Dickstein Shapiro LLP and is the Client Strategy Leader of the firm's Insurance Coverage Practice. He has been named by Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the top 10 litigators in Los Angeles, by Best Lawyers as the 2011 Los Angeles Insurance Lawyer of the Year, by California Law Business to its "Legal Dream Team" as one of California's top 25 litigators, by Super Lawyers as one of the Top 3 lawyers in Southern California, by Lawdragon as one of the nation's 500 leading lawyers, by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers as "the market leader for policyholder representation in California" and one of the nation's top 12 policyholder lawyers, and by Variety as one of the nation's top 50 entertainment lawyers because of his insurance coverage work in the entertainment industry.

Mr. Pasich conducts an active trial and appellate practice. He has three times obtained one of the 10 largest verdicts of the years in California, including a $48.5 million verdict on behalf of Sempra Energy against an insurance broker Marsh USA that was affirmed in full by the Ninth Circuit in August 2010. He has helped his clients recover more than $4 billion.

Mr. Pasich is the author of more than 400 articles on insurance and the author, co-author, or editor of several books, including Casualty and Liability Insurance, the American Bar Association's Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation Handbook, and New Appleman Sports and Entertainment Insurance Law & Practice Guide.