New Virtual Initiatives Reshaping and Innovating Litigation

Type: General Session
Description: As the pandemic accelerates the workforce into a virtual world, new initiatives are reshaping and innovating litigation.  The panel session will discuss several impacted areas from the insurer’s perspective and the panel firm. It will examine how courts have expanded practices to virtual initiatives, recommendations on evidence sharing in virtual hearings and consider the unknowns of virtual effects on exposure. Panelists will opine on how virtual platforms (Microsoft teams, Zoom among others) are being used effectively to reduce spend for depositions and mediations, and expanded areas for summary jury trials, real-time investigations, scene surveys, witness interrogation and preparation.  The session will conclude with discussion on emerging exposures presented by Telemedicine. 
Location: The Gavel National Conference V - Key Largo, FL. General Session with Daniel J. Santaniello, Esq., of Luks, Santaniello, Lincoln LeVarge, Esq., and AVP of Tower Hill Insurance Group and Ted J. McDonald, Esq., of McDonald Veon, P.A.  
Date: May 20, 2021