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10 08, 2020

Benefits of the New Normal

By PLUS|2020-09-01T10:23:16-05:00August 10, 2020|@PLUS, Guest Blog|1 Comment

Brittany Lannan Senior Underwriter, Professional Liability, Everest Specialty Underwriters, Everest Insurance® Brittany is a Senior Underwriter in the Professional Liability group within Everest Specialty Underwriters (ESU). Brittany joined Everest in April 2019 to help launch the Lawyers Professional Liability policy, which is designed to provide law firms with liability coverage for financial loss suffered by third parties arising from acts, errors, and omissions in providing legal services. At Everest, Brittany’s responsibilities include growing the lawyers professional liability business, developing and strengthening relationships with brokers, using her specialized industry knowledge to effectively address client needs and working with colleagues throughout the [...]

How do I become a ‘better risk’?

By PLUS|2020-07-27T14:03:56-05:00August 3, 2020|@PLUS, Guest Blog|0 Comments

Timothy Smit Sr. Global Privacy and Cyber Security Risk Leader, Lockton Companies Timothy develops long-range strategies directing clients how to optimize their data effectively and responsibly. He focuses on privacy compliance, data protection, and the use of or introduction to digital technology. He assists in identifying data privacy risks, operational risk, process improvement, and conducting data flow mapping exercises. Timothy conducts risk assessments and develop strategic solutions for managing those risks along with building incident response programs and plans to improve operational resiliency to a cyber or privacy event. Over the past few months, we have engaged with numerous clients [...]

Top Ten Practices for Successful Remote Mediations

By PLUS|2020-07-24T12:29:41-05:00July 27, 2020|@PLUS, Guest Blog|0 Comments

Emily Sides Bonds Partner, Jones Walker LLP Emily represents agents and brokers, directors and officers, other professionals, and business entities in professional liability, products liability, mass tort, class action, banking and financial services, insurance coverage, and other commercial litigation. Her practice extends to all state and federal courts in Alabama and Mississippi. In addition, Emily is a trained mediator and arbitrator. Life has changed in the last few months. New words have made their way into our dictionaries: Covidiot (someone ignoring public health advice), covideo (online parties on Zoom), the “rona” (Coronavirus), and covexit (strategy for exiting the lockdown). Social [...]