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.

2022-2023 Co-Chairs
Bob Allen
Ernest Martin
Marc Gravely

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

Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 1, 2019
American University Washington College of Law, October 26, 2018
University of Michigan, October 20, 2017
UC-Hastings School of the Law San Francisco, February 10, 2017

Past Co-Chairs

2021-2022
Stephen Pate
Brad Box
Brandon McWherter

2020-2021 (Connecticut)
Rhonda Tobin
John Buchanan

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

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

2017-2018 (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

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Article of the Month

The Scope and Limits of Discovery in Arbitration
From the ACCC Annual Meeting held May 2022 in Chicago, featuring panelists:

- Clifford J. Shapiro, Shapiro Dispute Resolution LLC
- Sheri Pastor, McCarter & English
- David E. Schoenfeld, Shook Hardy & Bacon

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Kathy Maus elected Secretary-Treasurer of Defense Research Institute.

Butler, Weihmuller, Katz, Craig, LLP is pleased to announce that Kathy Maus was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) at its Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. As a former president of the numerous organization and former Co-Chair of the Bad Faith Committee for the ACCC, she is no stranger to hard work and dedication. We would like to extend our sincerest congratulations on such a huge milestone.

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