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Construction Defect Claims: Strategies to Maximize Insurance Coverage
Audio Conference Recording Price: 199.00 (U.S. Dollars) -
SUMMARY
Navigating the many complex issues surrounding insurance and construction defects can be a difficult task. Get valuable advice on how to recognize, avoid and resolve common liability pitfalls and ensure your clients are properly protected when it comes to insurance issues and construction defects. Join us for this 60-minute audio conference where you and your colleagues will discover:
- Must know insurance issues to maximize coverage for your client
- CGL Policies: What's covered? What's Excluded?
- Common pitfalls of certificates of insurance: How to avoid them
- Impact of recent decisions addressing insurance coverage for construction defects
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
Serious construction defects can result in significant financial losses for your clients. Join us for this 60-minute audio conference to better understand the key legal issues and how to maximize your client's coverage.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Maximizing Construction Defect Coverage: Get the Coverage Your Client Needs
- When are construction defects risks considered accidental?
- Manage CGL policies for cover tear-out and replacement of non-damaged work
- Key policy language that could render your coverage meaningless
- Complex Construction Defect Issues: Selecting and Invoking the Right Insurance
- Should you rely on certificates of insurance? What are the alternatives
- Best strategies for handling insurers' denials or reservations of rights
- Essential insurance policy language that maximizes coverage
- Latest in Construction Defects Issues You Need to Know
- Chinese Drywall: What are the key insurance issues
- The "Business Risk" exclusions you need to know
- Trigger of Coverage: Which policies are triggered and how is loss allocated?
- Question and Answer Session - Hear Real-World Questions Answered!
- Maximizing Construction Defect Coverage: Get the Coverage Your Client Needs
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SPEAKER
James Cooper is a Partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell in Houston, Texas, where he co-chairs the firms Policyholder Insurance Coverage Practice Group. Mr. Cooper was Lead Counsel for Lennar Corporation, a major U.S. builder in a widely cited insurance coverage case in which the court held that defective construction constitutes an "occurrence" under Texas law (Lennar Corp. v. Great American Ins. Co., 200 S.W.3d 651 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 2006, writ denied).
- He is a frequent speaker at insurance coverage seminars, including at Mealey's Annual Advanced Insurance Conference and Construction Litigation Conference (both held in Philadelphia), National Constitution Center (three national audio conferences), the Annual Insurance Law Institute (Austin, TX), and Texas State Bar Webcast (Lamar Homes: The New Supreme Court Decision)
- He is a current co-chair of the Emerging Insurance Coverage Issues Subcommittee of the American Bar Association, a former co-chair of the Products Liability Insurance Coverage Subcommittee of the ABA, and a Council Member of the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.
- Mr. Cooper co-authored a chapter on handling complex insurance coverage matters in Inside the Minds: Legal Strategies for the Insurance Industry, published by Aspatore Books. He has authored insurance coverage articles for the Journal of Texas Insurance Law and University of Houston International Law Journal, including "Maximizing Insurance Coverage for Pre-Suit Settlements of Construction Defect Claims."
- He received his J.D. (cum laude) from Tulane University Law School in 1984.
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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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