Evaluating and Litigating Insurance Coverage: An Introduction

A pre-recorded streaming VIDEO replay of the May 2024 webcast, Evaluating and Litigating Insurance Coverage: An Introduction.

Lawsuits often stand or fall based on whether there is insurance coverage. This one-hour presentation orients those new to the field to the various types of insurance, the parts of an insurance policy, how coverage is extended or disclaimed, typical coverage issues, and the various types of litigation that might result. 

Our speaker, Dan Schiavetta, discusses real policies, along with examples from cases he has litigated. Insurance coverage is mostly a state law matter, but he emphasizes elements and practices common to all states, with special references to Virginia law.

• Learn the different kinds of policies and who is covered
• Gain an understanding of how claims are covered or denied
• Examine procedural remedies to obtain or deny coverage

Faculty

Dan Schiavetta, Russo & Gould LLP, New York, NY

Dan Schiavetta, of counsel to Russo & Gould LLP in New York City, has been a litigator for 30 years and is admitted in all New York and New Jersey state and federal courts and the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals.  For 20 years he defended the Catholic Church in sexual abuse cases and other matters.  He also has wide experience in insurance coverage litigation, nursing home defense, and appellate practice.  He is a 1992 graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Law, where he was a law review editor and moot court judge.  In his previous career as a social worker, he was the director of a crisis center and 24-hour hotline.  He is also the author of The Supreme Court for Short Attention Spans: 2000 Tiny Case Summaries Too Short to Bore You, available on Amazon.