Michael Handler and Jonathan Toren of the Global Insurance Department will present a webinar which will provide all levels of claims professionals, who handle third-party claims on behalf of excess insurers, the fundamentals for handling Excess Casualty Claims.
Who Should Attend:
All levels of claims professionals — both in-house and independent — who handle third-party claims on behalf of excess insurers.
What You Will Learn:
-
An overview of case law analyzing “below limits” or “limits shaving” settlements and whether such settlements can satisfy an excess policy’s exhaustion requirement.
-
How subtle variations in the excess or umbrella policy’s language can impact the scope of the exhaustion requirement
-
Some of the odd or arguably artificial ways in which exhaustion is attempted, and how courts have dealt with these scenarios.
-
Strategies for excess insurers based on actual and hypothetical scenarios.