2:30 - 3:30 PM - Breakout Session 5
Choose from one of the following sessions: 

Artificial Intelligence: How AI, Technology and Data-Driven Transformations in Claims Handling can Empower Claims Professionals
Construction: Avoiding the Hammer: Subrogation and Contractual Risk Transfer in Construction Claims 
Ethics: Calculating Settlement Values and Verdict Potential: Ethical Considerations for Lawyers and Insurance Professionals   

Session Descriptions

How AI, Technology and Data-Driven Transformations in Claims Handling can Empower Claims Professionals

Panelists will explore the use of cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence, technology, and data analytics to revolutionize claims management. Discover how these innovations can foster efficiency, improve the customer experience, guide decision-making and support fraud detection, and learn how they will unlock future transformation in the industry.                         

Speakers: 
Dwayne Hermes, CEO/Founder, Hermes Law 
Ryan Bode, Director, Claims Technology, FCCI Insurance Group
Rod Harden, President of Claims and Operations, Velocity Claims, LLC                                                                                                                

Avoiding the Hammer: Subrogation and Contractual Risk Transfer in Construction Claims 

Determining exposure on construction claims is a critical first step to determining strategy, but that process can often be complex. Learn how a detailed exploration of the facts and input from a team of defense professionals can be employed to properly understand potential liability, opportunities for risk transfer, and ultimate exposure to the insured.

Speakers:                                                                                                                                                 
Andy Guerra, PE, SE, Managing Director - Construction Defect Litigation, Charles Taylor
Elisabeth Morris, Senior Associate, Van De Poel, Levy, Thomas LLP

Calculating Settlement Values and Verdict Potential: Ethical Considerations for Lawyers and Insurance Professionals 

Lawyers and insurance professionals routinely evaluate settlement values and verdict potential and both owe ethical duties to the insured, their client. This session will explore the ethical duties lawyers and insurance professionals owe in evaluating settlement values. It will also consider strategies for lawyers and insurance professionals to leverage the others’ unique expertise to better fulfill their own duties of competence and to further the best interests of their mutual client.

Speakers: 
Adam McGonigle, Partner, HeplerBroom LLC
Lea Kapral, General Manager-Central Claims, Acuity Insurance
Jessica Cochran, Partner, Bush Graziano Rice & Platter, PA