Professional Notes & Events

• Dec 01, 2005 - Council on Foreign Relations in New York Membership
  Raenu Barod, a partner in the New York office, was elected to a five-year term membership of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
• Oct 08, 2005 - Business General Liability Policies Treatises
  Larry Golub, a partner in the Los Angeles office updated several chapters in the following treatises: "Business General Liability Policies," California Insurance Law & Practice, LexisNexis Matthew Bender; Identifying and Using Insurance Coverage in Business Litigation, California Continuing Education of the Bar ("CCEB"); "Analyzing Coverage: Reading and Interpreting Insurance Policies" and "Claims Involving Excess Insurance," California Liability Insurance Practice: Claims and Litigation, CCEB; "Insurance Coverage for Employee Claims," Advising California Employers 2d, CCEB.
• Sep 26, 2005 - Mealey’s Bad Faith Litigation Conference
  Robert J. McKennon, a partner in the Newport Beach office, spoke on the topic of effective jury instructions in bad faith cases at Mealey’s Bad Faith Litigation Conference held in Philadelphia, PA.
• Sep 26, 2005 - Bad Faith Litigation Conference
  Robert McKennon will be speaking on the topic of jury instructions in bad faith cases at the Bad Faith Litigation Conference in Philadelphia, September 26-27, 2005.
• Jun 28, 2005 - Compliance & Regulatory Affairs Conference
  Randall Doctor, a partner in the San Francisco office, spoke to the National Association for Variable Annuities about state issues relating to the sales of variable products at its Compliance & Regulatory Affairs Conference on June 28, 2005 in Washington D.C.
• Jun 12, 2005 - Disability Roundtable at the Western Claim Conference
  Martin Rosen, a partner in the Los Angeles office, was the moderator for the Disability Roundtable at the Western Claim Conference, from June 12-14, 2005.
• May 24, 2005 - ACI’s Managing and Litigating Mental Illness Disability Insurance Claims
  Robert J. McKennon , a partner in the Newport Beach office, spoke on the topic of ensuring against bad faith and punitive damages in mental illness disability cases at ACI’s Conference on Managing and Litigating Mental Illness Disability Insurance Claims held in New York, NY.
• May 22, 2005 - Annual Meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel Panel
  Kent Keller and Richards D. Barger, partners of the Los Angeles office, and Tim Moroney, an associate of the San Francisco office, were members of a panel at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel, May 22-24, 2005 at The Greenbrier Hotel. Mr. Keller's subject was recently enacted California Proposition 64 that amended California's Unfair Competition Law; Mr. Moroney's subject was the recently enacted California privacy laws and compliance with those laws; and Mr. Barger moderated the panel. Also on the panel was Michael Demicco, the Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of New York Life Insurance Company.
• May 05, 2005 - ARIAS-U.S Panel Speaker
  Stephen Klein, partner in the Los Angeles office, appeared as a panel speaker for ARIAS-U.S. at the May 2005 Spring Conference on "How Lawyers Can Improve the Reinsurance Arbitration Process."
• Apr 11, 2005 - American Conference Institute Seminar
  Royal F. Oakes, a partner in the Los Angeles office, spoke in San Francisco at the American Conference Institute's seminar on "Unfair Competition Law Developments in California" on April 11, 2005.
• Apr 01, 2005 - Unearthing the Evidence
  Russell Stedman and Randall Doctor, partners in the San Francisco office, published a piece on undocumented reinsurance, Unearthing the Evidence, in The Review (April 2005).
• Mar 04, 2005 - ACI’s Advanced Forum on Litigating Disability Insurance Claims
  Robert J. McKennon, a partner in the Newport Beach office, spoke on the topic of implications of the latest case law on bad faith, punitive damages, and alternative theories of recovery at ACI’s Advanced Forum on Litigating Disability Insurance Claims held in Coral Gables, FL.
• Mar 01, 2005 - ACI Reinsurance Abritrations Conference
  Evan L. Smoak presented Standards for Vacating Arbitration Awards was presented at the American Conference Institute's "Reinsurance Arbitrations" Conference, New York, NY.
• Feb 23, 2005 - Litigating Disability Insurance Claims conference
  Robert McKennon, spoke at the ACI's Litigating Disability Insurance Claims conference in Miami on February 23, 2004.