Joseph A. Arnold is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP. Joe represents insurers in jurisdictions across the country in a wide range of complex first- and third-party insurance coverage disputes involving food contamination and product recall, asbestos and other long-tail environmental claims, professional liability claims and advertising injury claims. Joe is barred in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and he currently serves as a Vice-Chair of DRI's Excess, Umbrella & Surplus substantive law group.

Prof. Tom Baker is the William Maul Measey Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania Law School the Reporter of the Restatement of Law Liability Insurance, and the former Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut.

Charles (Chuck) W. Browning is a partner at Plunkett Cooney, where he oversees the firm's nationwide practice as coverage counsel for numerous insurance companies. He is annually listed in the publication The Best Lawyers in America, and is a Super Lawyer and Leading Lawyer. Mr. Browning is a Fellow in the American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel and is a member of DRI, the IADC and FDCC. He is a longtime member of the Steering Committee of DRI's Insurance Law Committee.

Lee Craig is a defense attorney in private practice in Florida, specializing in first-party insurance coverage, advice and litigation. His particular expertise is the defense of "bad faith" claims and other cases invoking extra-contractual damages. More than 25 years ago Lee joined Butler as an associate. In due course he became a partner, then the managing partner, then a name partner. During that time, he grew to be a committed member of the DRI. He is a past chair of the Insurance Law Committee, a past chair of the Insurance Roundtable, a past member of the Board of Directors and, currently, a member of the Law Institute. Lee's other professional memberships include the Federal Bar Association and the George Edgecomb Bar Association. His non-professional interests and activities include baseball, boxing, classical music, drama, fine art, gambling, British history, jazz, literature, menswear, opera, photography, popular music, saltwater angling and scuba diving.

Robert W. DiUbaldo is a Shareholder in the New York office of Carlton Fields Jorden Burt PA and a member of its Financial Services and Insurance Litigation Department. His practice focuses on insurance and reinsurance arbitration, litigation, regulatory matters and complex claims analysis on behalf of insurers, reinsurers, brokers, MGAs and other entities engaged in the insurance space. Mr. DiUbaldo has litigated, arbitrated or counseled clients on matters involving a broad range of issues in the property & casualty and life & health sectors, as well as many specialty lines, such as financial and surety products. A significant part of his practice involves representing primary and excess insurers in coverage matters and disputes involving many different lines of business (both first and third party), including commercial general liability, D&O, E&O, professional liability, property, business interruption, cyber, life and health, workers' compensation, pollution, aviation, marine and energy.

Lisa C. Ellison is Senior Counsel and Virginia-D.C. Claim Center General Counsel for Travelers Insurance Co. As a member of the Claim Center Executive Management Team, Lisa provides strategic guidance and insight and serves as the primary legal contact for the Claim Center. She also provides coverage, general legal and jurisdictional advice and expertise for multiple lines of business. Lisa manages litigation involving Travelers and works with outside coverage counsel to achieve the desired results.

Laura A. Foggan, chair of Wiley Rein's Insurance Appellate Group, has 20-plus years' experience representing insurers in general liability, professional liability and other coverage disputes. She also counsels insurers on emerging risks, including toxic substance exposures, cyber and data breach, and UAS (drones). Ms. Foggan has participated in over 200 insurance appeals nationwide. Ms. Foggan is the AIA Liaison to the ALI Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance project.

Matthew S. Foy is a partner in the San Francisco office of Gordon & Rees LLP and serves as the national practice group leader for the firm's property and casualty insurance practice. Mr. Foy represents insurers nationally in connection with coverage litigation and advice involving primary and excess liability policies with an emphasis on complex Coverage B, mass tort, directors and officers, professional liability, and environmental matters. Mr. Foy serves as Chair of DRI's Insurance Law Committee.

Dawn Frazier-Bohnert joined Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. in the spring of 2013 to shape the new office of Diversity and Inclusion. As Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Dawn is responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of Liberty Mutual's diversity and inclusion strategy and programs. This includes enhancing employees' D&I capability and skills, internal and external communications, metrics and measurements, benchmarking, external partnerships and the development of employee resource groups. Recently, Dawn was a recipient of the 2016 Profiles in Diversity Journal Diversity Leader Award and included as part of the "Top 25".

Lee Murray Hall is a Member of Jenkins Fenstermaker PLLC in West Virginia where she represents insurance carriers on coverage and extra-contractual matters. Ms. Hall served as president of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia and is currently Vice President of the West Virginia Board of Law Examiners and was awarded the 2016 Defense Attorney of the Year for West Virginia. She is a member of DRI, FDCC and IADC.

Rahul Karnani serves as Assistant General Counsel in the Alpharetta, Georgia office of Chubb & Son, one of the world's largest multiline property and casualty insurers. He provides insurance coverage advice and oversight of insurance coverage and extra-contractual litigation for Chubb's North American Claims organization.

Naomi B. Kinderman is Assistant Vice President – Counsel at W. R. Berkley Corporation, an insurance holding company that is among the largest commercial lines writers in the United States and operates in three segments of the property casualty business: Insurance-Domestic, Insurance-International, and Reinsurance-Global. She is responsible for providing claims and litigation oversight to several Berkley companies throughout the enterprise. She also manages the enterprise-wide coverage counsel pane

Robert A. Kole co-chairs the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group of the law firm of Choate Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston Massachusetts. His practice focuses on insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration in a wide variety of subject areas, including long-tail claims, pharmaceutical losses, catastrophe bonds and property losses

Martin P. Lavelle is Managing Counsel - Major Case of Travelers Insurance Co., Claim Legal Liability Group, and leads a team of attorneys charged with providing coverage advice, litigation management and other legal services to Travelers liability claim professionals. Marty was previously employed by AIG as the Supervising Attorney of the coverage practice group of Green & Lavelle, a captive firm, and as in-house coverage counsel for CNA. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and holds the Associate in Reinsurance designation.

Mary F. Licari is lead counsel for insurers involved in complex insurance coverage litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country, involving a wide-range of business, toxic tort, product liability, construction defect and environmental pollution claims. Mary also represents insurers in domestic and Bermuda arbitrations and mediations involving direct insurance and reinsurance claims. Her practice focuses primarily on bad faith, primary and umbrella liability, commercial transportation, and policy drafting and claims management. Mary has also defended litigants involved in medical malpractice, securities fraud, and product liability actions. She is a frequent speaker in the legal community, speaking on insurance coverage and bad faith issues.

Joanne M. Locke, Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Liberty Mutual Insurance Group in Boston, manages Liberty's Corporate Legal Coverage Group. Her team provides advice to Liberty's Commercial Insurance and U. S. Consumer Markets business units on coverage and related issues and works closely with internal clients and outside counsel on all types of domestic coverage litigation. Ms. Locke is a member of the American Law Institute.

Randy J. Maniloff is an attorney at White and Williams, LLP in Philadelphia where he represents insurers in coverage disputes under a host of policies. He is the co-author of General Liability Insurance Coverage – Key Issues in Every State (3rd edition, National Underwriter) and the publisher of the newsletter and website Coverage Opinions.

Bonnie Mayfield is a member of the Dykema Gossett PLLC Litigation and Labor & Employment Law practice groups and has defended clients in an array of industries — including transportation and logistics, medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, telecommunications, chemical, and petroleum manufacturing. Scoring an impressive series of victories for different clients, including a legal "hat trick" for a trifecta of wins for one client and making legal history for another client by winning the first ever award in a particular type of labor arbitration, Bonnie is a business savvy trial and appellate lawyer. She has been selected by several major clients to defend their matters and also to be the Responsible Partner managing the client/law firm relationships. As a sought-after speaker, Bonnie has spoken to and/or presented before groups including the International Association of Defense Counsel, the State Bars of Michigan and Wisconsin, the American Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association of Michigan and POWER, Opening Doors for Women.

Julian Miller is a partner specializing in insurance and reinsurance and professional risk. His work covers dispute resolution, technical coverage issues and drafting wordings. He has particular experience of high-value, complex and cross-border disputes. Julian advises clients on a wide variety of coverage issues and casualty claims. He has experience with claims arising from tax relief schemes, pensions disputes, aviation claims, aggregation issues, the World Trade Centre, professional liability and financial institutions. He has been identified as a Super Lawyer (Insurance) since 2013 and as a Chambers Global Leader in his field (Insurance: Contentious Claims).

Julia A. Molander represents the insurance industry in virtually all aspects of their business, including insurance coverage litigation, insurance counseling, extra-contractual (bad faith) liability, insurance fraud, underwriting matters, policy drafting, regulatory compliance, brokerage and agency liability, insurance insolvency and legislative issues. Julia has more than 30 years' experience in strategically managing insurance risk, on an enterprise-wide basis (state, regional and national), in areas such as construction defects, class actions, cyber risks, trucking and cumulative trauma. Julia was elected a fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra-contractual Counsel in 2014 and the Insurance Litigation Institute of America, where she currently serves as chair. She is rated AV Pre-eminent by her peers and has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" since 2005. Julia has been active in DRI for more than 25 years, and she is a former chair of the Insurance Law Committee.

John B. Mumford, Jr. leads Hancock Daniel Johnson & Nagle PC 's insurance coverage practice group from the firm's office in Richmond, Virginia. John represents insurance companies in litigating coverage disputes in multiple jurisdictions and forums, with a focus on Virginia, the District of Columbia, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Joanna M. Roberto, a New York-based partner in Goldberg Segalla's Global Insurance Services Practice Group, concentrates her practice in complex insurance coverage and commercial litigation. She serves as coverage counsel for multi-national insurance carriers in numerous matters pending throughout the country. Joanna has litigated all phases of declaratory judgment actions and arbitrations, and she has counseled large insurers on underwriting procedures and policy rewriting and claims practices. She also focuses her practice on professional liability claims, including errors and omissions; property claims; life, health, and disability; construction liability coverage; Coverage B litigation; and products liability. Joanna is multi-lingual and well-versed in international claims-handling practices. She is a member of DRI's Insurance Law Steering Committee.

Ronald R. Robinson, co-founder and executive partner of Berkes Crane Robinson & Seal LLP, Los Angeles, has, for 30 years, specialized in insurance underwriting and claims management advice, coverage litigation and ADRs, concerning mass tort, environmental, social media, construction defect, entertainment/intellectual property and emerging risks claims. He served on the Law Institute, was chair of the Insurance Law and Excess & Reinsurance Committees, and is chair of the ILC Subcommittee on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Acts, for which he received DRI's National Community Service Award.

Brian H. Sande is Vice President – Senior Staff Counsel for Home Office P&C Claims at Federated Mutual Insurance Company in Owatonna, Minnesota. Prior to joining Federated he was in private practice for 15 years. He was a shareholder at Bassford Remele in Minneapolis, and before Bassford he was a partner at the Rider Bennett firm in Minneapolis and an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. He handled complex insurance coverage and commercial litigation matters in state and federal court, including appeals in Minnesota and Wisconsin's state courts of appeals and supreme courts, and before the Seventh and Eighth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is an active member of the Insurance Law Committee of the Defense Research Institute, is a former editor of its e-newsletter "Covered Events," and is the former co-chair of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association's Insurance Law Committee.

Audrey A. Seeley focuses her practice in insurance coverage and No-Fault coverage, arbitration and litigation, as well as municipal law. She routinely provides counseling to insurers on personal and commercial lines insurance policies and handles declaratory judgment actions in State and Federal Courts across New York State and monitors out of state litigation for insurance clients. Ms. Seeley is Chair of DRI's Insurance Law Committee.

Nilam R. Sharma is a dual UK/US qualified lawyer with over 26 years experience in providing insurance and litigation strategic advices to insurers and their clients on how insurance liability policies issued to professionals, directors and officers, their boards and financial institutions will respond to litigation and regulatory investigations. Nilam has lived and worked in the US, South America, Asia, and the Middle East and has a reputation for being able to bridge the cultural gap which often arises when working on international insurance and litigation/regulatory issues. As a result Nilam has built up a global network of insurance and litigation experts that are trusted by their clients locally and globally, and which are called upon when required.

Robert I. Siegel is a senior director with the firm of Gieger Laborde & Laperouse LLC with offices in New Orleans and Houston. Rob is licensed in both Louisiana and Texas, and has more than 35 years' of experience in defending and trying law suits, involving cases in a wide variety of subject matters. Presently, his practice is largely devoted to defending insurance coverage and bad faith claims, including direct actions, declaratory judgments, and involving both third party coverage disputes and first party claims.

Julia K. Ulrich is an Assistant Vice President in the Coverage Department at AIG. Her team handles claims involving complex coverage issues and manages coverage litigation throughout the country. Prior to joining AIG, Julia worked as a coverage attorney in the New York and Connecticut offices of Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge.

Paul J. Van Osselaer is principal of Van Osselaer Dispute Resolution PLLC, based in Austin. Paul has a national mediation practice limited to insurance coverage, bad faith and risk transfer cases. Paul is a "Distinguished Fellow" of the prestigious International Academy of Mediators and is a "Credentialed Distinguished Mediator," the highest credential of the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association. He is repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers in Insurance Law and by SuperLawyers in both ADR and Insurance Coverage. He is former vice-chair of the ABA's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee and a frequent speaker around the country on coverage mediations.

Margaret Cronin Wilson handles foreign claims and litigation in Liberty Mutual Insurance Company's Specialty Claims Department. She has more than 30 years of experience in the public and private legal sectors, including nine years as corporate counsel in the ITT system. Her business expertise includes commercial litigation and arbitration on both the domestic and international fronts; complex contract negotiations and dispute resolution and risk management. She has extensive experience with outside counsel management.

Patrick E. Winters is a partner in Plunkett Cooney PC's Bloomfield Hills office, focusing his practice exclusively in the area of insurance coverage law. Mr. Winters represents insurance companies in all complex coverage matters. His coverage work includes matters relating to complex environmental contamination, professional liability, automotive, trucking, construction defects, product liability, bad faith, and personal and advertising injury. Mr. Winters has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star four consecutive years. Mr. Winters is the Chair of this conference, and is an active member of DRI's Insurance Law Committee, having served the ILC's Annual Meeting co-chair in 2015 and 2016 and as the Vice Chair of the Webcast Committee.

Ray L. Wong is a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of Duane Morris LLP. He has practiced law for more than 36 years with his practice focusing on a variety of business litigation. Mr. Wong has served as a mediator and arbitrator, and has testified as an expert consultant and witness in civil litigation. He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and is a Fellow with the American College of Coverage and Extra-contractual Counsel. He has also served as co-vice chair of the American Bar Association's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Litigation Section.

Anthony (Tony) R. Zelle has developed a national reputation representing insurance companies in coverage and bad faith claims through 30 years of trial and appellate advocacy in courts across the country. He has been involved in most of the decisions that presently shape bad faith law in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He presently serves on DRI's Board of Directors and previously chaired DRI's Insurance Committee. He compiled and edited the first edition of the Compendium of Bad Faith Law in 2002 and has served as lead editor for each biennial update.