Committee Chairs

Board Year 2020-2021

ADR Committee
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Marialuisa Gallozzi
Gerry Albrecht
Tyler Gerking

Annual Conference Committee
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Co-Chairs:
Spence Taylor
John Bonnie
Vice Chairs:
Laura Hanson
Tracy Saxe

CGL/Excess Liability Insurance
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Rhonda Tobin
John Failla

Communications Committee
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Michael Aylward
Christine Haskett
Thomas Alleman

Cyber Insurance and Computer Crime
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John Buchanan
Nancy Adams
John Sinnott

D&O and Management Liability
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John Mumford
Joann Lytle

Emerging Issues
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Mary Borja
Angela Elbert

Extracontractual and Bad-Faith Claims Litigation Committee
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Robert Allen
Heather Sanderson

First-Party Insurance Committee
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Rick Hammond
Hugh Lumpkin
Stephen Goldman
Suzan Charlton

Insurance Law Symposium Committee
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Rhonda Tobin
John Buchanan

Membership Committee
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Lisa Pake
Koorosh Talieh

Nominating Committee
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Michael Aylward

Outreach Committee
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Andy Downs
Marty Pentz
Laura Foggan

Pop-Up Calls Committee
Meghan McGruder
Debra Varner

Professional Liability Committee
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Shattuck Ely
Jennifer Mathis

Professionalism and Ethics Committee
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Neil Posner
John Bonnie

Regional Meetings Committee
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Tyler Gerking
Scott Godes
Tamara Wolfson
Lisa Weixelman

Quick Links

Article of the Month

American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance: Scholarship and Controversy By Lorelie S. Masters and Geoffrey B. Fehling

Published April 2021 by the University of Connecticut Insurance Law Journal on the insurance Restatement.

Member News

ACCC Fellows Recognized as Agents of Change in Insurance Law
In the “Insurance Law Trailblazer” inaugural list published by the National Law Journal

Ned Currie Receive Multiple Honors

The Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association presented Ned Currie of Currie Johnson & Myers, P.A. with the 2021 Defense Lawyer of the Year award; in 2016 the MDLA bestowed him with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Best Lawyers in America selected Ned as Mississippi’s 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” for Insurance Law. He received the same Best Lawyers distinction in 2012

U.S. District Court Grants Motion for Summary Judgement and Dismisses Target's Claim

On February 8, 2021, Meagher + Geer attorney Chuck Spevacek and his team made news heard around the insurance world when they obtained on behalf of two Chubb entities – ACE American Insurance Company and ACE Property & Casualty Insurance Company – an order from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota granting their motion for summary judgment and dismissing the claim of Target Corporation for insurance coverage for losses arising out of its 2013 data breach. Click here for more info.