NAILM Sponsors Seminar to Explore Building Better Relationships Between Defense Counsel and Carriers

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 17, 2005

Fostering the Collaborative Rather than Adversarial Relationship between Claims handlers and Defense Firms in the Tri-Partite Relationship

The National Association of Insurance Litigation Management presents A special Seminar about collaboration and team work in the management of Litigated Insurance Claims.

The relationship amongst the participants in the Insurance litigation management tripartite relationship is, at best, often strained.

Defense counsel feels put

Upon by:

• External bill auditing protocols
• Precarious relationships with their carrier clients

in an era of carrier mergers and consolidation

• Staff counsel initiatives
• Overly- rigorous billing guidelines

To name a few.

Carriers are concerned about:

• Spiraling defense cost
• Inadequate communications
• And a sense that counsels’ duty to their “real

client” the insured", inevitably leads to bad

results

These issues have lead to an unfortunate trend

toward the adversarial rather than the collaborative in the relationship between counsel and insurers.

Clearly, the best case scenario for all three parties involved in the tripartite relationship would be toward collaboration and cooperation, rather than bickering and acrimony.

But how do we get there?

Come join the NAILM in an open discussion of these issues and more lead by:

• Quintin L King (moderator): President CEO of the NAILM. A 20 year veteran of both the worlds of Insurance Litigation Management and Law, Mr.King has managed litigation in complex cases for numerous large and regional carriers. King earned his BA from Depaul University with High Honors and His Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
• Michael Pisani: Attorney with the Legal Services Group/Law Department at CNA. His work includes the review of appeals from firms whose legal services have been reviewed and audited by attorneys working with CNA’s Standard Lines and Global specialty Lines litigation management units. Prior to his present position, he worked as Litigation ounsel inthe Litigation management/Environmental and Mass Tort Claims Unit at CNA.    

Before joining CNA, Mr.Pisani was a trial attorney representing individuals,private organizations, and governmental agencies in

aviation, environmental, asbestos, and mass tort

litigation cases.Mr. Pisani received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Loyola University of Chicago,and his Juris Doctor degree from The John MarshallLaw School.

• Kevin M. Quinley is Senior Vice President for

Medmarc Insurance Group, Chantilly, VA, and a nationally renowned expert on litigation management. He has a BA from Wake Forest University and an MA from the College of William & Mary. He holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation and specialty designations from the AmericanInsurance Institute in Risk Management (ARM), in Claims (AIC), Management (AIM) and Reinsurance (ARe).     

This WEBINAR will take place on November 17, 2005

10:00 am CENTRAL/11:00 am Eastern online. It is

FREE TO NAILM MEMBERS: $75 FOR NON MEMBERS

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