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Insurance Attorney Client Privilege: Protecting Confidentiality in Claims
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
Insurance disputes provide unique discovery, confidentiality and privilege issues which are not usually present in ordinary business litigation. Join us for this 60-minute audio conference to discover:
- How to protect privilege and work product in tripartite relationships
- Important issues that affect scope of waiver
- Business function vs. legal advice: Roles affecting legal capacity
- Exceptions to privilege: Bad faith, crime-fraud and legal capacity doctrine
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
The protection of communications between client and lawyer, as embodied in the attorney-client privilege, has been a bedrock principle of our justice system. Join us for this 60-minute audio conference as John Heintz explores attorney-client privilege in insurance litigation.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Strategies for Preserving Privilege in Insurance Disputes
- Disclosure of privileged communications to insurers, brokers and auditors
- Legal and ethical developments affecting insurance regulatory investigations
- When to seek bifurcation of contract in bad faith claims
- Tests of privilege: Consequences of Intermediate and Restrictive tests
- Work Product Doctrine: Elements of Insurance Privileged Information
- How to prevent pre-litigation communications from discovery
- Ways to ensure protection against an express waiver
- What specifically is protected under the doctrine?
- Effectively manage the ethical issues that arise most often
- Special Issues for Tri-Partite Relationships
- Privilege issues when an attorney acts as a claims agent
- Keys to stop bad faith claims in tripartite relationships
- Handle issues of communications between insured and its defense counsel
- Managing the joint client exceptions in tripartite relationships
- Live Q & A Session: Have Your Questions Answered by the Expert!
- Strategies for Preserving Privilege in Insurance Disputes
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SPEAKER
John Heintz is a partner in Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's Washington, D.C. office and chair of the Insurance Recovery and Washington, D.C. Litigation practice groups. He has over 30 years of experience in the fields of corporate insurance coverage and other complex multiparty litigation.
- Mr. Heintz has represented clients in securing coverage for asbestos, lead, environmental contamination, class-action discrimination, directors' and officers' liabilities, and medical product liability claims. He also has represented clients in securing coverage for property and business interruption losses arising out of the 9/11 attacks and other catastrophic events.
- He represented large corporate property owners in coverage disputes arising from damage caused to their properties at Ground Zero on 9/11 and obtained settlements valued at several hundred million dollars
- Mr. Heintz obtained over $400 million in settlements on behalf of a major petroleum client in one of the largest insurance coverage cases ever filed in the United States, involving 75 insurance carriers and five years of litigation.
- He secured billions of dollars in coverage for asbestos liabilities and defense costs.
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CLE CREDITS
Continuing Legal Education CLE credit is available for an additional $65 per person in states where teleconferences are accredited
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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