Employment Practices Liability Insurance

15th Annual Conference on

Employment Practices Liability Insurance

Expert Strategies and Key Insights for Minimizing Risks, Defending Against the Newest EPL Claims, and Reducing Litigation Costs

Monday, January 25 to Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Co-Chairs

Wanda E. Flowers
Chief Counsel, Labor, EEO & Employment
Sunoco, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)

Patrick Hicks
Shareholder
Littler Mendelson P.C. (Las Vegas, NV)

Speakers

Adeola I. Adele
Senior Vice President, National EPL Product Leader
Marsh Inc. (New York, NY)

Miles R. Afsharnik
Vice President, Director, National Claims and Legal Resource
Professional Risk Group
Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc. (New York, NY)

Anne Ciesla Bancroft
Partner
Fox Rothschild LLP (Princeton, NJ)

Constance S. Barker
Commissioner
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Washington, DC)

Nicole M. Baummer
Assistant Vice President
EPL and Governmental Liability Claims
Allied World / Darwin (Farmington, CT)

Deanna M. Beacham
Assistant Vice President
Chubb & Son, a division of Federal Insurance Company (Warren, NJ)

The Honorable Mark W. Bennett
United States District Court Judge
Northern District of Iowa (Sioux City, IA)

Richard S. Betterley, CMC
President
Betterley Risk Consultants, Inc. (Sterling, MA)

Kenneth P. Carlson, Jr.
Partner
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP (Winston-Salem, NC)

A. Craig Cleland
Shareholder and Co-Chair of Ogletree Deakins’
Class-Action Practice Group
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
(Atlanta, GA)

Mercedes Colwin
Managing Partner
Gordon & Rees, LLP (New York, NY)

Shacara N. Delgado
Senior Vice President
Employment & Benefits Law
Realogy Corporation (Parsippany, NJ)

Janet B. Dreifuss
Senior Vice President, Director of Claims, Executive Risk
Alliant Insurance Services (New York, NY)

Wanda E. Flowers
Chief Counsel, Labor, EEO & Employment
Sunoco, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)

Jacqueline K. Gallagher
Partner
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP (Philadelphia, PA)

Anne Golden
Partner
Outten & Golden LLP (New York, NY)

Elizabeth Grossman
Regional Attorney
New York District Office
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (New York, NY)

Thomas P. Hams
Managing Director, National EPLI Practice Leader
Aon Financial Services Group (Chicago, IL)

Stephen B. Harris
Assistant Vice President and Assistant General Counsel
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (Hartford, CT)

Michael W. Hawkins
Partner
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (Cincinnati, OH)

Kirsten Hotchkiss
Senior Vice President
Corporate Services Compliance & Employment Counsel
Wyndham Worldwide (Parsippany, NJ)

Patrick Hicks
Shareholder
Littler Mendelson P.C. (Las Vegas, NV)

Ellen M. Hoadley
Director of Risk Management
Lexington Insurance / Chartis (Boston, MA)

Stephen H. Kahn
Founding Partner
Kahn Opton, LLP (Fort Lee, NJ)

Daniel Kulakofsky
Managing Counsel, Director of Electronic Discovery
The Travelers Companies, Inc. (Hartford, CT)

Leslie A. Lajewski
Partner
Coughlin Duffy LLP (Morristown, NJ)

Leslie A. Lanusse
Partner
Adams and Reese LLP (New Orleans, LA)

Erica E. Larsen
Sr. Counsel, Employment & Benefits Law Group
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Menlo Park, CA)

Karl R. Lindegren
Partner
Fisher & Phillips LLP (Irvine, CA)

Joanne Lloyd-Bragg
Vice President, Claims Manager
AXIS Professional Lines (Berkeley Heights, NJ)

David Long-Daniels
Shareholder
Chair of the Atlanta Labor and Employment Practice
Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Atlanta, GA)

Ann M. Longmore
National Practice Leader, Global and Financial Risks Practice
Willis Group Limited (New York, NY)

Gerald L. Maatman, Jr.
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw LLP (Chicago, IL)

Roxane Marenberg
Director, Legal Employment Services
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA)

Joni F. Mason
Senior Vice President
Executive Liability, a division of Chartis (New York, NY)

Kathleen M. McKenna
Partner
Proskauer Rose LLP (New York, NY)

Cyrus Mehri
Founding Partner
Mehri & Skalet, PLLC (Washington, DC)

Michele A. Molfetta
Senior Staff Attorney, Labor, Employment and Benefits Group
Consolidated Edison Company of New York (New York, NY)

Wanda M. Morris
Counsel, Employment & Labor Law
The Home Depot (Atlanta, GA)

Catherine M. Padalino
EPL Product Manager
Chubb Specialty Insurance (Warren, NJ)

Corie Pauling
Senior Counsel, TIAA Employment & Benefits Law Group
TIAA-CREF (Charlotte, NC)

The Honorable Andrew J. Peck
United States Magistrate Judge
Southern District of New York (New York, NY)

Brett G. Rawitz
Managing Counsel – Global Labor & Employment Law
McDonald’s Corporation (Oak Brook, IL)

Dana Scott, Esq.
E-Discovery Specialist, Electronic Discovery Resource Group
Chubb & Son, a Division of Federal Insurance Company
(Simsbury, CT)

Paul J. Siegel
Partner
Jackson Lewis LLP (Melville, NY)

Ivan D. Smith
Partner
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP (New York, NY)

Joseph A. Starr
Partner
Lipson, Neilson, Cole, Seltzer & Garin, P.C.
(Bloomfield Hills, MI)

Mark Thierman
Thierman Law Firm (Reno, NV)

Paul Weiner, Esq.
National E-Discovery Counsel
Littler Mendelson P.C. (Philadelphia, PA)