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Overview of 21st Century Insurance Law Issues
Produced on May 02, 2017
Course Information
Course Description
What do extreme weather, environmental disasters, ride/home/work-sharing, artificial intelligence and cyber breaches have in common? They are all part of the brave new world we call the 21st Century. This course will assist coverage attorneys and those in coverage-adjacent fields recognize potential coverage issues in these emerging areas and demonstrate the ways in which traditional policies may respond to them, as well as identifying new coverage products designed to address these insurance trends.
Presented by attorney Mirna Santiago, the discussion is fast-paced and wide-ranging, all while providing answers to your pressing coverage questions, whether you are an experienced coverage attorney or new to the field.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify emerging trends in insurance coverage
- Understand how the traditional insurance policy works and what it covers
- Gain tips on how to avoid the pitfalls associated with reporting or handling a claim that does not fall neatly into the classification of damages covered by a policy
- Obtain practical guidance on how ambiguity in a policy may operate to widen the scope of coverage
- Identify new insurance products and how they apply
Credit Information
Faculty
Mirna Martinez Santiago
Acacia Network
MIRNA MARTINEZ SANTIAGO is Deputy Counsel at one of the largest Latino not-for-profit organizations in the United States. Mirna has over 20 years of legal experience, handling a range of matters from torts to professional liability to insurance coverage to regulatory affairs.
She also created the Girls Rule the Law program to introduce underprivileged and underrepresented middle and high school girls to the law.
Mirna lectures on an array of topics – with a focus on diversity, inclusion, the elimination of bias and cultural competency – and has published on legal, as well as non-legal subjects.
Mirna has been featured in Latina Magazine and on NBC News speaking about the Afro-Latina experience.
Reviews
The lecturer's teaching is well organized and presented.
Good for general knowledge.
She was one of the BEST presenters I have listened to! Awesome job.
Very well presented
Great presenter
excellent presenter
Very interesting subject.
I work in insurance - nice summary of current changes and challenges.
Excellent presentation!
Explains everything!
Outstanding program. Highly Recommend.
Great presentation!
Very insightful speaker.
Appreciate the pace of the presentation
Excellent!!
The presenter is good. She should come back and do updates every year or so.
Excellent program!
Very clear and interesting CLE.
This presenter was clearly knowledgeable. Probably could have easily presented this as a multi-hour course.
Easy to follow; informative
Excellent
this is a terrific way to do the CLE and you guy have found a bunch of really good instructors.
Great!
Good Information. Good Speaker.
it was good
GOOD INTRODUCTION COURSE.
She brought up some very interesting issues surrounding us today, esp. with "shared" property and drones.
This was a very good program. I appreciated the section on drones as that will be an expanding area of law in the near future.
Very interesting program. Instructor did a good job.
Very interesting presentation!
Awesome speaker!
Awesome speaker!
This attorney is the best presenter I have seen so far.
Well versed, energetic speaker!