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Insurance 101 for New Attorneys: What Insurers Expect and Want From Outside Counsel

A live 60-minute CLE video webinar

BARBRI Practice-Ready Webinar

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

1:00pm-2:00pm EDT, 10:00am-11:00am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, March 28, 2025

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This CLE webinar will provide new insurance lawyers with an overview of the insurance business so that they can understand how insurance works and better represent their clients. The program will review different production models (retail vs. wholesale), address the regulatory and licensing issues in insurance, discuss different claims department models, and outline common goals of different insurers. The program will be beneficial regardless of the type of client the new attorney intends to represent.

Description

To best represent any client in insurance matters, attorneys should understand how insurance businesses actually operate and what "keeps them up at night." These subjects are not covered in law school, and new attorneys often fail to have either a complete or accurate picture of insurance as a regulated business.

It is critical to understand the difference between admitted and non-admitted insurers, retail and wholesale producers, brokers and agents, underwriters, and a host of other players. Each of these participants has different regulatory and licensing requirements, as well as different levels of duty to third parties. Insurers are required to maintain sufficient capital to satisfy claims and thus are constantly monitoring losses by policyholder, book of business, or line of business which is well beyond the issues in any one file.

Listen as Frederick J. Fisher, J.D., CCP, President at Fisher Consulting Group, provides new attorneys with the essential, inside, and real world knowledge about the insurance business that will enable them to better understand why they are being asked to do certain things pertaining to insurance.

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Outline

  1. Review of common production models
    1. Captive retail, independent retail
    2. Wholesale, MGU/MGA/ program administrators
  2. Regulatory issues
  3. Claim department models
  4. Overall goals

Benefits

The panelist will review these and other important questions:

  • What business pressures are on claims professionals?
  • How does a new attorney add value to the insurance firm?
  • What are current trends in AI?

Faculty

Fisher, Frederick
Frederick J. Fisher, J.D., CCP
President
Fisher Consulting Group

Mr. Fisher is CEO of the Fisher Consulting Group, Inc. For almost 50 years, he has been involved in the underwriting,...  |  Read More

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