Exploiting Artificial Intelligence and Technology in Construction Claims of Tomorrow”

Type: Conference Presentation
Description: Society as a whole is rapidly changing thanks to innovative ideas, creative solutions, and the emergence of new technologies, with advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) being a common thread.  The construction industry has been a major draw for such new technology.  With software developed to learn and adapt, see things we can’t see, or perform everyday duties, construction is no longer completed with an engineer and a slide rule, brick walls built by, or oversight by an actual person.  We have predictive design software performing the engineering, robots taking the place of masons, and software evaluating and computing live feeds of the work being performed.  The uses for such data output that exists, but has not been exploited to-date.  Tomorrow is today.  Resultantly, the desks of claims professionals, attorneys, and experts should expect an increased volume of claims that involve such technological innovations, data produced from such innovations, and technology itself.  As an industry, we must pivot our thinking and align ourselves with such technological innovations by having the foresight to see what’s next, while exploiting the data more effectively and efficiently.  Soon the insurance industry will openly embrace technology and leverage its use in design and construction with advances in adjusting claims, making legal arguments, and providing experts untapped data to present to the jury.
Location: The Gavel National Conference V - Key Largo, FL.  Presentation with Hayley Newman, Esq., of Luks, Santaniello, Michael Hinojosa of National Claim Services and Terence Kadlec of Envista Forensics. 
Date: May 19, 2021

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

Negligent Security Trends: Risks | Challenges | Reducing Exposure Webinar 

Type: Webinar
Description: The webinar will acquaint the claims representative or attorney with the risks, challenges and trends surrounding negligent security. The course will cover three main objectives: identifying the current problems and trends, ways to minimize your risk and exposure, and ways to mitigate your loss.  The webinar will contribute to an adjuster’s understanding of Legal Standards to Impose Liability Against Owners and Businesses and the ways to minimize risk and exposure and ways to mitigate your loss.
Location: Live Webcast presented by Dan Santaniello
Date: May 26, 2021

Ding Dong, It’s Bacteria: Avoiding Food Safety Litigation During The Covid-19 Pandemic Webinar

Register Here for the Avoiding Food Safety Litigation Webinar

Type: Webinar
Description: The webinar will acquaint the claims representative or attorney with the risks, challenges and trends surrounding food safety and avoiding food poisoning litigation during the pandemic. The session will focus on third party delivery services like DoorDash and GrubHub and will cover food safety litigation and the multiple theories of recovery that can be utilized in pursuing a food safety case, as well as a case study and tips for protecting restauranteurs expanding into the delivery market.  The webinar will also acquaint the claims representative or attorney with the risks, challenges and trends surrounding food safety and avoiding litigation during the pandemic. The session will cover food safety litigation and the law surrounding the multiple theories of recovery that can be utilized in pursuing a food safety case.  This course will also assist attorneys and claims representatives in issue identification when evaluating food poisoning claims by discussing a case study and educating regarding practical protective measures for restaurants to avoid food poisoning litigation.
Location: Live Webcast with Attorneys L. Paige Hall of Engles, Ketcham, Olson and Keith, P.C. , Franklin Sato and Tabitha Jackson of Luks, Santaniello, Petrillo & Cohen. 
Date: June 4, 2021

Workers’ Compensation Claims Before and After COVID-19

Type: Conference
Description: Coronavirus has accelerated the virtual workforce and has forever changed the compensability of workplace injuries. The panel will consider the employer, workplace injuries, the new work accident and comingled work life and home claims. The session will clarify how to determine whether an at home injury is compensable and review emerging exposures like telemedicine and the effect on valuing the compensability of at home injuries. The session will end with discussion on sharing information and common interests and provide attendees with a road map to navigating WC claims post COVID-19.
Location: The Gavel National Conference V - Key Largo, FL. Conference Presentation with Reinaldo Alvarez, Esq., of Luks, Santaniello, Paul Michienzie, Esq., of Michienzie & Sawin, LLC., and Amy Dun Hotard, Esq., of Salley, Hite, Mercer & Resor, LLC.
Date: May 19, 2021

Collaboration, Data Sharing 

Type: Webinar
Description: 
Location: Live Webcast with Attorney Valerie Edwards, Esq., and Deborah Watkins, Founder of Care Bridge International
Date: November 17, 2021