Ben Erwin has joined the Insurance/Reinsurance Dispute Resolution Group as an associate in Atlanta. Ben is a 2004 graduate of Duke University School of Law. Prior to joining Morris, Manning & Martin, he practiced with Powell Goldstein, LLP, focusing on complex civil litigation and health care matters.
Representing a liability insurer, Lew Hassett and Ben Vitale recently settled on favorable terms an action alleging a fraudulent concealment of insurance coverage.
Skip Myers will be speaking to the South Carolina Captive Insurance Association on December 7, 2007 on corporate governance for risk retention groups.
Lew Hassett and Skip Myers have been renamed to the Guide to the World’s Best Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.
Jessica Pardi will be speaking on strategies and practice points for each of the phases of a reinsurance arbitration at Mealey’s Fundamentals of Reinsurance and Arbitration Conference on February 11, 2008, at the Westin in Washington D.C.
Lew Hassett and Jessica Pardi are serving as lead counsel in litigation in federal court in California involving the allocation between an insurer and its managing general agency of the settlement of a bad faith claim.
Representing the cedant, Lew Hassett and Ben Erwin recently settled on favorable terms a dispute with a London-based reinsurer.
Bill Megna and Donna Fuller participated in the Life and Health Compliance Association (LHCA) meeting September 26-28, 2007, held in Greenville, South Carolina.
Joe Holahan and Skip Myers conducted a Webinar on Terrorism Risk Insurance with Brady Young of Strategic Risk Services on November 21, 2007.
Bill Megna was nominated as one of America’s Best Lawyers for Government Relations in 2008.
Lew Hassett and Jessica Pardi have been retained to represent a managing general agency in litigation brought in Chicago by a reinsurer alleging negligent underwriting and claims handling.
Lew Hassett and Tom Player attended the Winter meeting of ARIAS in New York and participated in various sessions on procedure and technology in arbitrations.
Bill Megna has been selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Government Relations Law.
Lew Hassett and Ross Albert are representing a claims administrator in a dispute with an insurer in Pennsylvania. Lew and Ross recently filed an action in federal court in Philadelphia challenging arbitrability.
Skip Myers addressed the National Conference of Insurance Legislators on the uses of interstate compacts for insurance regulation on November 17, 2007.
Lew Hassett and Jessica Pardi recently settled on favorable terms federal litigation in Georgia brought by an automobile insurer against a claims administrator.
On the first day of the new Session of the Supreme Court, Tom Player was sworn in by Chief Justice Roberts, along with other members of the Senior Attorneys in the South Carolina Bar. Player has been a member of the South Carolina Bar for over forty years.
( Note: In the picture below Player is third from the right - clean shaven for a change! )
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