Michael F. Aylward is a senior partner in the Boston office of Morrison Mahoney, LLP, where he chairs the firm's Complex Claims Resolution Group. For the past four decades, Mike has represented property and casualty insurers in insurance coverage and bad faith disputes around the United States. He is the past chair of DRI's Law Institute and has served earlier terms on DRI's Board of Directors and as chair of the DRI Insurance Law Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute and was appointed by the ALI in 2014 to serve as one of the few appointed Advisers on the ALI Restatement of Law, Liability Insurance. Mike is also a founding member of the American College of Coverage Counsel and presently serves as the ACCC's President-Elect.

Laurie C. Barbe co-leads Steptoe & Johnson's Insurance Company Team from her firm's office in Morgantown, West Virginia. Laurie regularly represents insurance companies in West Virginia state and federal courts in response to first party insurance claims involving coverage disputes and allegations of statutory and common law bad faith. She also provides guidance to insurers writing new business in West Virginia, assists with the investigation of suspicious fire and theft claims, and provides general insurance counseling and claim handling training.

Christopher A. (Chris) Bottcher handles a variety of business, corporate, and commercial disputes, with an emphasis on bank and lender representation. Chris has extensive experience representing banks and lenders defending fraud claims and real estate disputes. In addition to representing business owners in dissolution proceedings, Chris advises clients on the protection of trade secrets, the enforcement of restrictive covenants, and toxic tort and product liability matters. Chris is an active DRI member and was recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® 2019.

David L. Brown serves as Co-Chair of the Global Insurance Services Practice Group at Goldberg Segalla. He represents insurers in matters involving their business practices and institutional interests and he has successfully handled numerous extra-contractual claims around the country. David has tried over 75 cases and has been lead counsel in over 50 appeals. In addition to being a long time member of DRI, he is a member of IADC and is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel.

John G. Buchanan, III Representing policyholders exclusively, John Buchanan has engaged in insurance coverage litigation and counseling for over three decades at Covington, where he served as the firm's first Insurance Practice Group Coordinator. After years of litigating and negotiating traditional coverage and extracontractual issues in complex property-casualty coverage claims, John has more recently explored the bad-faith risks inherent in "InsurTech" innovations such as parametric coverage and artificial intelligence in claims handling. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Oxford and Princeton.

J. Pablo Cácereshas handled property coverage and extra-contractual claims with Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP, in Tampa, Florida. He has litigated scores of major hurricane and other large loss claims. Many of his Florida trial and appellate court cases have resulted in significant published opinions in insurance law. Pablo often assists with complex coverage and property claims presuit. Clients appreciate his practical and "outside the box" approach to files. Pablo was raised in North Carolina and received his undergraduate and law degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a member of the state bars of Florida, Texas, and Virginia (inactive). AV rated by Martindale-Hubbel, Pablo is a frequent speaker on insurance topics at major defense organization conventions and seminars.

W. Edward Carlton is a shareholder of Quilling Selander Lownds Winslett & Moser PC in Dallas, Texas. He represents business clients in complex civil litigation and defends insurers against claims of bad faith. He also defends insureds in professional liability, non-subscriber, and first party property claims, and represents businesses, including construction companies and self-insured employers. He has served in leadership positions with the Dallas Bar Association, the Texas Association of Defense Counsel and DRI.

Thomas Chaseman is an Associate General Counsel with AIG where he oversees nationwide insurance claims litigation involving AIG member companies and provides legal advice to claims operations. Before joining AIG in 2007, Mr. Chaseman was a trial attorney engaged in private practice in New Jersey and New York including representing policyholder clients. Mr. Chaseman is author of "Trial Monitoring: A Reference Manual for Practitioners" as well as other publications and writings.

Ronald J. Clark is a Shareholder with the law firm of Bullivant Houser Bailey. Mr. Clark's practice over the past 31 years has been exclusively in litigation, emphasizing first-party and third-party insurance coverage and extra-contractual matters. Mr. Clark has tried several dozen matters through jury verdict, in multiple jurisdictions. He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel. He is licensed to practice in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Asim K. Desai is a partner in the southern California offices of Gordon & Rees and has extensive experience in high-stakes, complex litigation including insurance bad faith. He has authored numerous articles on trial preparation and insurance bad faith, served as Editor of the DRI's Bad Faith Compendium in 2015 and is routinely invited to speak for various national organizations. Mr. Desai is also a member of the invitation only International Association of Defense Counsel where he is served on its Trial Academy Faculty in 2015 and 2018.

Jennifer D. Eubanks is Director of Claims Legal at Canal Insurance Company, in Greenville, South Carolina. She assists the Claims organization with litigation management, litigation strategy, coverage issues and coverage training. She also manages appeals and coverage litigation involving Canal Insurance Company, including extra-contractual litigation, and is involved in Canal's insurance product development. Prior to joining Canal, she was in private practice for 20 years, handling exclusively coverage matters, including extra-contractual litigation.

F. Lane Finch, Jr. provides insurance coverage advice, defends bad faith claims, and litigates first and third-party claims in federal and state court. He manages the Alabama office of Swift Currie, a 150-attorney firm focused solely on insurance law and litigation. Lane is the Chair of DRI's Insurance Law Committee and is very active in DRI programming and leadership. He also writes and presents frequently on insurance coverage and litigation issues to national audiences of attorneys, in-house counsel and claim executives.

Rick R. Fuentes, PhD is a founding partner of R&D Strategic Solutions LLC. He has specialized in jury behavior and decision-making and the evaluation of complex evidence for over 25 years. Dr. Fuentes has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia, and a Master's Degree and Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from Texas A&M University. He has worked with trial teams on hundreds of civil and criminal cases involving issues of tort, contracts, anti-trust, intellectual property, product liability, and professional malpractice. Through the use of focus groups, mock trials and surveys, he assists trial attorneys and in-house counsel in the development of persuasive jury messages and themes, witness preparation, jury selection and case valuation. He has provided testimony as an expert for change of venue motions. He has authored numerous professional articles on the topics of jury behavior and jury decision-making and he has delivered dozens of CLE programs around the country and is a regular speaker for the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, as well as at other local and National Bar Associations.

Nancy J. Gill is Vice-President and Senior Corporate Counsel III with American Modern Insurance Group, Inc., a member of the Munich Re Group. For the past nineteen years, she has been responsible for managing class action and extra-contractual and bad faith litigation filed against the companies as well as advising the companies on issues pertaining to large losses, third party litigation, and compliance. Prior to joining American Modern, Ms. Gill was in private practice for twenty years in Cincinnati, Ohio where her practice focused on litigation at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts. She is a member of a number of professional organizations including DRI where she continues to serve on the Insurance Law Committee and the Insurance Industry Advisory Board

Rick M. Goldberg has over twenty-seven years in the multimedia industry and twenty-three studying litigation dynamics. He has been the lead Trial Consultant to complex cases nationwide and in countries around the world. His expertise includes assistance in selecting jurors and reverse engineering the jury charge. He has assisted counsel in jury selection in civil and criminal cases in state and federal courts. He also has extensive experience in the design and analysis of mock trial and focus group research for arbitration, mediation, bench, or jury trials.

Sean C. Griffin is a member in the Washington, D.C. office of Dykema. He litigates breach of contract and fraud cases before courts, arbitrators, and mediators around the country. He also responds to subpoenas investigating violations of federal or state laws, including the False Claims Act, anti-bribery laws, and securities laws and regulations. Additionally, he assists clients with data security and responding to data breaches.

Rick L. Hammond is a Partner with HeplerBroom, LLC, and he concentrates on matters relating to property insurance coverage, and serves as an expert on insurance law and bad faith. He is an Adjunct Professor on Insurance Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and on the Board of Trustees of Loyola University and Arrupe College. Rick is the former Assistant Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance, and former property claims manager and insurance producer. He is Past-President of the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, a member of the FDCC, a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel and former State Representative of DRI.

Byron P. Hansbro is a graduate of Jackson State University, (Jackson, Mississippi) earning a bachelor's degree in mass communications. Byron received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law. He also attended the University of Cambridge, International Law Program in Cambridge, England. He has practiced with the McCoy, Wilkins, Stephens & Tipton, P.A. in Jackson, Mississippi. He is currently in-house counsel at State Farm Insurance Companies where he supervises extra-contractual litigation.

Krista Horn-Watkins is a director in the Claim Legal Division of Travelers handling extra-contractual claims and bad faith litigation. In addition to providing the triage for new claims, she works with counsel to develop the strategic plan for resolution. Her extensive extracontractual claim experience spans all lines of personal and commercial property, liability and specialty coverages. Ms. Horn-Watkins began her career as a claims professional at Allstate and has worked for CIGNA, USF&G and St. Paul prior to Travelers.

Guy E. Hughes is a partner with Casey Bailey & Maines PLLC in Lexington, Kentucky where he has a broad based litigation practice handling matters in the areas of products liability, fire loss, trucking law, premises liability as well as the defense of professional liability claims. Mr. Hughes work has also included representation of recreational product, automobile and motorcycle manufactures as well as work for a Class I Railroad with trials throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Mr. Hughes is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Trial Tactics Committee.

Naomi B. Kindermanis the Vice President of Claims Senior Counsel for Berkley Insurance Company and serves as the Assistant Vice President – Counsel for W. R. Berkley Corporation. Naomi is responsible for providing litigation and claims oversight for bad faith litigation, coverage litigation and high exposure complex claims for several Berkley companies throughout the enterprise. She also manages the enterprise-wide coverage counsel panel. Prior to joining W. R. Berkley Corporation, Naomi was Assistant Vice President – Counsel at The Hartford. In that role, she directed and managed bad faith and extra-contractual litigation across all lines of business. Previously she was in private practice in Connecticut.

William J. Kobokovich, Jr. is Vice President and Associate Group General Counsel for Travelers. Mr. Kobokovich graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976 and obtained his J.D. Degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1979. From 1979 to 1994, he was in the private practice of law with a Baltimore, Maryland law firm, specializing in insurance defense litigation. Mr. Kobokovich went in-house to USF&G Insurance Company in 1994 and after USF&G's acquisition by St. Paul in 1998, was asked to lead the group that manages all of St. Paul's extra contractual litigation nationwide. Since the merger of St. Paul and Travelers in April 2004, Mr. Kobokovich's responsibilities include management of commercial lines and personal lines extra contractual litigation nationwide. Mr. Kobokovich is A.V. rated by Martindale Hubbell.

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Roman Lifson enjoys an active motorsports law practice in which he addresses the needs of race track operators, track event organizers, race teams and individuals in a wide array of areas including litigation, contract negotiation, and risk management. He also represents clients in litigation involving product liability, business disputes, medical negligence and First Amendment rights. Mr. Lifson serves on DRI's Law Institute and has chaired several DRI programs.

Christopher W. Martin is a founding partner of the Texas law firm of Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom LLP. He has successfully tried insurance coverage and bad faith cases to verdict in 14 different states. For the past 14 years, Chambers USA ranked him as the top insurance litigation attorney in Texas. He is the author of 4 legal treatises and more than 100 articles on insurance law, and he taught insurance law at the University of Houston Law School for 15 years. He writes and speaks nationally on successful trial strategies and techniques to win insurance cases.

Kathleen J. (Kathy) Maus a partner of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, is active in her firm's bad faith, casualty, and first/third party insurance coverage practices. She is a recognized Super Lawyer in Insurance Coverage and a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. Her memberships are varied, including Past Board Member of the Defense Research Institute. Kathy is an author and served as a speaker at numerous seminars on issues including first and third party coverage and bad faith.

John B. Mumford, Jr. leads Hancock Daniel's insurance coverage practice group from the firm's office in Richmond, Virginia. John represents insurance companies in litigating coverage disputes and bad faith claims in multiple jurisdictions and forums, with a focus on Virginia, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, and Tennessee. He also advises insurers on coverage related matters, such as extra-contractual liability avoidance and the handling of complex claims with coverage issues.

The Honorable Stuart A. Nudelman, Ret. is a senior mediator and arbitrator at ADR Systems, specializing in insurance and insurance coverage disputes, personal injury, commercial and professional malpractice matters, among many others. He is experienced in high-value, multiparty mediations and has resolved more than 1,500 mediations and arbitrations throughout the United States. As a mediator, he settled the largest embezzlement case in US history in a marathon 17-hour mediation. Judge Nudelman is known for his ability to skillfully manage emotionally charged, complex cases.

Demetrius E. Rush has national case supervisory responsibility for extra-contractual institutional bad faith litigation and e-discovery issues. His supervisory experience covers both personal lines and complex commercial property and liability litigation. With nearly 30 years' experience in the insurance industry, Mr. Rush has served as a personal lines underwriter trainee and as a personal lines BI/PD field claim representative. Following law school, he represented both insurers and insureds, serving as lead counsel in 92 jury trials to verdict and approximately 25 bench trials. Mr. Rush is a frequent speaker nationally on issues of bad faith, and has also spoken on insurance coverage and trial advocacy topics at the University of Texas Continuing Legal Education Center and the Northwestern University School of Law. He was appointed as a faculty member for the 2016 Federal Judicial Training Symposium for federal judges and is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law.

Rhonda J. Tobin For almost three decades, Rhonda J. Tobin has focused her practice on representing insurers in complex insurance coverage litigation, including in lawsuits seeking extracontractual remedies. Her experience in the defense of bad faith litigation is significant, including being retained on the eve of trial to take over the defense of bad faith cases previously handled by other firms. Her litigation and trial experience includes coverage and bad faith cases in several state and federal courts. Rhonda also regularly provides training to her clients on good claim handling practices. She is a Fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel.

Kevin J. Willging is Executive Counsel for Travelers and is responsible for managing extra-contractual litigation against the company. He was in private practice where he focused on insurance coverage and defense litigation. He joined the St. Paul Companies as coverage counsel in 2000 and assumed responsibility for managing extra-contractual and bad faith litigation in 2002. He works closely with defense counsel in preparing pleadings, formulating strategy, coordinating consistent discovery tactics, negotiating settlements and preparing cases for trial. Kevin is a frequent speaker on bad faith and extra-contractual issues and litigation, as well attorney-client relations.

Greg K. Winslett is a senior partner practicing in the Dallas office of Quilling, Selander, Lownds, Winslett & Moser, P.C., where he chairs the firm's Insurance Practice Group. Greg represents insurance carriers in virtually every type of insurance based dispute, including bad faith and extra-contractual claims, in state and federal courts in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida and various other jurisdictions throughout the country. He has extensive litigation experience, but his practice also extends to providing pre-litigation and coverage advice in connection with claims involving both liability and first party insurance policies.