Insurance Law Symposium Committee

Mission Statement
Each year, the ACCC sponsors a one-day symposium in conjunction with a leading law school. The Insurance Law Symposium Committee is responsible for planning and conducting that symposium.

2020-2021 Co-Chairs (Connecticut)
Rhonda Tobin
John Buchanan

Click below to see the agendas and materials from past symposiums.

American University Washington College of Law, Friday, October 26, 2018
University of Michigan, October 20, 2017
UC-Hastings School of the Law San Francisco, February 10, 2017

Past Co-Chairs

2019-2020 Co-Chairs (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Doug McIntosh
Hugh Lumpkin
Marialuisa Gallozzi

2018-2019 Co-Chairs (Washington, DC)
Scott Godes
Robert Kelly
Helen Michael

2017-2018 Co-Chairs (Michigan)
Christopher Mosley
Michael Barnes

2016-2017 (San Francisco)
Andrew Downs
David Goodwin

2015-2016 (Boston)
Mike Aylward
Martin Pentz

2014-2015 (Ole Miss)
Edward Currie
Thomas Segalla

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.