California Fair Claims

IUA Circular 065/23

California Fair Claims Handling Training Session

with guest speakers:
Andrea Best, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, London and Alex Spisak, Associate McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Washington DC
(Alex joins us via remote access)

This market Briefing will be: Hybrid

Event Date: Wednesday 20 September 2023

Time: 3pm/15:00hrs for approx 90 minutes (UK/London time)

Venue: For in-person attendance -  Apex Hotel, Seething Lane, London EC3  (Registration with tea and coffee from 2.30pm)

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Although this is a Hybrid event, we strongly encourage in-person attendance for this training session.

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Subject: This IUA Market Briefing Training session is designed to provide required California claims handling training, covering all aspects of the regulations relating to Californian claims, and will provide certification* confirming each individual’s attendance.

Contact:  Deborah Finch, IUA Events Manager (020 7617 4451)

* Certification for this event will be supplied directly from the speaker and not the IUA.

Please click here to register and confirm/decline your authorisation for IUA to supply your details to our speaker for this purpose only.

This is a free event, but names and email addresses of all attendees are required for registration.

We understand that some attendees are unable to join our webinar's due to company restrictions for some applications on company computers. Please note you can also connect and join with a mobile or tablet device.

Please adhere to on line etiquette during our presentations. We kindly ask you to mute your microphone and video upon commencing the link and to use the Chat application for any questions, which will be addressed by the speaker at the end of the presentation. We suggest dialling in at least 5 mins before the start of the webinar.

Please note that any recording of this session will be available post-event on the IUA's You Tube channel, subject to speaker authorisation and technical quality.

NB: Certificates will only be supplied to those who actually attend the training on the day (in-person or remote). The recording is for reference only.

The California Department of Insurance continues to take the view that anyone involved in handling, adjusting, or settling claims on California risks, even on behalf of non-admitted London-based insurers, must receive annual training on California’s Fair Claims Practices regulations.

All such adjusters must maintain records of receiving this training on an annual basis.

This 90-minute market briefing training session is designed to provide the required training, covering all aspects of the regulations, and will provide certification* confirming each individual’s attendance.

We will use case studies to demonstrate how various aspects of the regulations are implemented and provide time to ask questions.

* Certification for this event will be supplied directly from the speaker and not the IUA. Please register HERE to confirm your authorisation for IUA to supply your details to our speaker for this purpose only.

Our Speakers:

Andrea Best advises clients on insurance regulatory compliance throughout the United States. She works with insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, brokers, trade associations and others in the insurance market.

Andrea actively monitors state insurance-related legislative and regulatory developments and works extensively with London, Bermuda and European insurance market participants regarding non-admitted insurance and reinsurance transactions in the United States, including regulatory advice on structuring insurtech, and on sharing economy and gig economy insurance programs in the United States. Andrea counsels managing general agents and other entities looking to establish operations in the United States. Andrea also assists insurance industry participants on structuring cross-border insurance and reinsurance transactions. Andrea previously served as head of the London office for a global law firm.

Alex Spisak focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and has experience with all aspects of litigation from initial case filing through discovery, trial, and postverdict appeals in both Federal and State Courts across the United States.

As a member of the National Coordinating Counsel Team representing a Fortune 100 Company managing the defense of its docket of wrongful death and personal injury cases stemming from its legacy asbestos liability, Alex assists with the development and implementation of case strategy and oversight of all aspects of the litigation, including fact investigation and discovery, integration of developing causation science, motion practice, expert witness development, defense of corporate representative witnesses, mediations and settlement negotiations, trials, and appeals.

DISCLAIMER: The market briefing presentation materials and speaker comments therein were prepared solely by the presenter(s) in their personal and professional capacity. Any materials or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the IUA and IUA does not bear any responsibility for, or liability to, any parties in respect of the accuracy, legality or overall content of the presentation or any other comments made by speakers or other attendees during the market briefing.

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