Insurance Defense: Introduction to Tripartite Relationship and Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
Recording of a 60-minute CLE video webinar
This CLE webinar will explore the tripartite relationship and several frequently seen scenarios where conflicts of interest arise: reservation of rights letters, billing audits, billing guidelines, insured's lack or cessation of cooperation, coverage defenses, and policy limits demands. The panelists will review recurring problems and offer guidance about best practices and strategies for addressing the issues.
Outline
- Overview of tripartite relationship
- Overview of controlling authority
- Recurring situations
- Reservation of rights letters
- Billing audits without insured consent
- Billing guidelines
- Insured's lack or cessation of cooperation
- Revealing coverage defenses, policy limits demands
- Best practices for spotting conflicts
Benefits
The panel will discuss these and other key issues:
- What are the most common types of conflicts that arise?
- How do different states analyze the tripartite relationship?
- Who is the client? Who can sue defense counsel and for what?
- How do case law and legal-ethics rulings intersect when navigating the tripartite relationship?
Faculty
Heather M. Beam
Partner
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons
Ms. Beam focuses her practice on complex design and construction litigation in arbitrations, state court, and federal... | Read More
Ms. Beam focuses her practice on complex design and construction litigation in arbitrations, state court, and federal court. She has successfully represented general contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers, surveyors, realtors, and brokers in residential, commercial, and highway projects. Ms. Beam's practice includes the defense of design and construction defects, construction site injuries and fatalities, and allegations of fraud and concealment of defects when properties are sold. She also has experience drafting contracts for design professionals and contractors at the beginning of projects, advising clients during ongoing construction projects when problems arise, and negotiating claims to help her clients avoid litigation. Ms. Beam also handles representing clients in professional licensure board complaints.
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Jeffrey P. Doss
Partner
Lightfoot, Franklin & White
Mr. Doss focuses his practice on trial advocacy in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and complex civil... | Read More
Mr. Doss focuses his practice on trial advocacy in the areas of white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. In addition to conducting internal investigations for private and public entities, he has defended businesses and individuals in connection with grand jury investigations, administrative enforcement proceedings and criminal prosecutions at the trial and appellate levels. For nearly a decade, Mr. Doss has served as appellate counsel for an automobile manufacturer. He has aided trial teams pre-trial, at trial, and post-verdict through appeal. As appellate counsel, Mr. Doss has developed and implemented strategies to address a myriad of legal issues, from errors in jury selection to exclusions of experts to evidentiary objections to post-verdict challenges to punitive damages awards.
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Marc S. Mayerson
Principal
The Mayerson Firm
Mr. Mayerson specializes in complex insurance-coverage disputes including litigation, settlement and advice, and... | Read More
Mr. Mayerson specializes in complex insurance-coverage disputes including litigation, settlement and advice, and has appeared as counsel in actions seeking insurance recovery for environmental liabilities, asbestos bodily injury claims, product-liability claims, medical-device liability, fidelity losses, errors-and-omissions liability and employment-practices liability matters.
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