Insurance Law in Practice (2024 Insurance Law Section Program)

8:25 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:55 Welcome and Introductions

9:00 "Top 10" Insurance Law Decisions

Adam L. White, Pinto Coates Kyre & Bowers PLLC, Greensboro

During this segment, we review, analyze and discuss the most significant decisions involving insurance law from the past year in North Carolina state and federal courts. The presentation also addresses cases and opinions from other states that may impact North Carolina insurance law in the future.

10:10 Break

10:20 Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage UM/UIM Primer and Perspectives

C. Douglas Maynard Jr., Law Office of C. Douglas Maynard Jr. PLLC, Winston-Salem

New to auto torts? In need of a refresher? This primer is for you! Whether you're taking your first auto torts case or your thousandth, take key insights into UM/UIM coverage and the Motor Vehicle Safety and Financial Responsibility Act from this session. Insurance expert Doug Maynard covers the basic mechanics of current laws, offers a historical perspective on how the current laws took shape and how they have recently changed, and highlights special topics for more seasoned practitioners.

11:10 Break

11:20 Ethics and the Tripartite Relationship^*

Walter E. Brock Jr., Young Moore and Henderson PA, Raleigh
Warren T. Savage, Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of NC, Cary

This session explores current issues involving ethics in the practice of law and highlights ethical considerations in the tripartite relationship in insurance defense.

12:20 Lunch Break

1:20 Mediating the First-Party Insurance Case

Scott C. Hart, Sumrell Sugg, New Bern
Robert H. "Robby" Jessup, Howard Stallings From Atkins Angell & Davis PA, Raleigh
Jennifer Welch, Cranfill Sumner LLP, Raleigh

Witness a mock mediation with strategies to help navigate situations commonly encountered in first-party insurance claims. The focus of this session is on client preparation and effective strategies before and during mediation. Scott Hart serves as mediator and host, Robby Jessup provides analysis and remedies to protect the policyholder, and Jennifer Welch provides insight into representing the insurance carrier.

2:50 Break

3:00 A Most Stressful Profession: Navigating Internal and External Challenges to Succeed in the Practice of Law^†*

Judge Lucy Inman, Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC, Raleigh

This session explores the struggles lawyers face in their profession and personal lives, and the speakers recommend strategies for not just surviving, but thriving. Judge Inman uses an anonymous polling system to engage the audience in discussion about how lawyers can respond to stressful circumstances, even if they can't control them, and how to identify small problems before they become big problems.

4:30 Adjourn

* Indicates portion providing Ethics/Professional Responsibility credit
† Indicates portion providing Substance Abuse/Mental Health credit

Description

The North Carolina Bar Association’s Insurance Law Section is pleased to offer its annual CLE program exploring the practice of insurance law.

If you did not attend this program in its entirety, please fill out a partial credit form to ensure that we report your credit accurately.

Please send your completed form to askcle@ncbar.org within seven days of this program.

As an attendee at this CLE program, your feedback is important.

Click here to fill out the program evaluation.

Click here to view Forms and CLE Policies, Terms and Conditions.

If paying by check, click here for a printable registration form. Please reference the in-person live program code 251INS.

Can't attend in person? Please contact us at askcle@ncbar.org or 919.677.0561 to switch your registration to the Live Webcast before the start of the program.

(After the live CLE program begins, you will have real-time access to only the program format for which you are registered — either In-Person Live or Live Webcast — and your registration cannot be switched.)

Certificate of Completion and Archived Video: Your certificate of completion and archived video will be available approximately two weeks of the program date and can be found in your CLE account. MCLE credit is available to registrants only on the day(s) of the live event. This archived content is offered solely for review purposes and is not a substitute for live attendance. Click here for more information about archive videos in our FAQ.