Miami, FL - April 3 - 5, 2016

2016 Schedule of Events & Session Details

Sunday, April 3, 2016 | Mandarin Oriental Miami5:00pm - 7:00pm
Welcome Reception | Sponsored by:  MagMutual                                          

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Monday, April 4, 2016 | Mandarin Oriental Miami
9:00am – 10:00am | Opening Keynote Session
#101 - Now What? The Aftermath of ACA

• Setting the stage: What the experts see - A panel overview
• The impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
• Consolidation by hospitals, groups, venture capital (VC) and agencies
• What is next? = Experts future vision

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Moderator: Jeffrey L. Bowlby - ProAssurance Corporation
Scott Diener - NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company
Neil Morrell - MagMutual Insurance Company
Ross E. Taubman - PICA
Sarah E. Pacini, JD - Cooperative of American Physicians

10:00am – 10:45am 
Morning Coffee Break

10:45am – 11:45am | Concurrent Sessions
#201 - Healthcare Regulatory Liability: Trends Challenges and Predictions

• Review significant events or allegations, claims, penalties and lawsuits
• Describe current regulatory environment – who’s who and what they do
• Explain current coverages, triggers, overlaps and gaps
• Forecast the impact of regulatory changes on healthcare and the resulting opportunities and/or threats for insurers

Moderator: Michelle Foster Earle, ARM - OmniSure Consulting Group
T. Andrew Graham - Hall Booth Smith, PC
Chris Reese - NAS Insurance Services, Inc.
Carol Marshall, MA, CCC-SLP - OmniSure Consulting Group
  
#202 - Cyber Security Thefts: Threats, Consequences, Protection, Detection and Response

• Cyber liability issues - basic history and why it is important to everyone, especially the healthcare industry, understanding cyber policy language
• Cyber and security risks in the healthcare sector; including hospitals, healthcare organizations and how to respond to a breach; including HITECT Act; NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guides: FDA and Homeland Security oversight
• Learn about HITRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) - the leading organization supporting the healthcare industry in advancing the state of information protection. Identify a common approach and develop situations to better align insurance premiums with cyber risk profiles and cyber insurance for organizations that process and store protection health information
• Cyber threat overview; computer and network intrusions; identity theft and national Cyber Awareness System    

Moderator: Carol S. Doty, Esq. - Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP
Jason Manar - Federal Bureau of Investigation - C-5 Miami Cyber Crime Taskforce
Robert O. Barberi, Jr. - Willis North America
Allison Funicelli, MPA, CCLA, ARM, ACHE - Hamlin & Burton Liability Management

12:00pm – 1:00pm | Concurrent Sessions
#301 - Millennials and Medicine: What Does the Future Hold?

• Emerging trends in the healthcare delivery system
• Telemedicine and other emerging underwriting issues
• Expectations of millennials of healthcare
• Effect of millennials on future claims and underwriting
• Millennials on a jury       

Moderator: James J. Kjar - Reback, McAndrews, Kjar, Warford & Stockalper, LLP
Frances O'Connell, RN, MBA - Markel Global Insurance
Ryan Deane, Esq. - Reback, McAndrews, Kjar, Warford, Stockalper & Moore
John Foley - Markel Corporation
  
#302 - Underwriting in the Era of Accountable Care: Defining the Risks & Accepting the Challenges

• An in-depth discussion about how the Affordable Care Act is rapidly forcing changes in the way professional liability insurance is underwritten, priced and managed
• How underwriters can prepare themselves and their companies for a healthcare delivery system increasingly dependent upon the management of populations
• How captives can rise to meet the new challenges in capacity, reinsurance and support services that Accountable Care is already mandating
• How existing physician commercial insurers can succeed in assisting healthcare providers in improving quality outcomes and margins with data, services and expertise   

Moderator: Michael Maglaras - Michael Maglaras & Company
Ruth Cardiello, RN, MSN, CPHRM, CHC - Stamford Health, Inc.
Robert Hanscom - Coverys
  
#303 - Making the Best of EHRs

• Identify the common issues and claim trends associated with EHR systems to better understand the exposures faced by healthcare providers, organizations and insurance carriers
• Design action plans to mitigate medico-legal risk inherent in EHR systems
• Implement practice change initiatives to ensure the risk mitigation strategies have been effective       

Moderator: Kevin Kelly - MRM Group, LLC
William McDonough, MPAH, ARM, FASHRM - Integro Insurance Brokers
Laurel Byerly, Esq. - Western Litigation, Inc.
Eileen Shanley - Steward Health Care 

1:00pm – 2:30pm
Networking Luncheon (RSVP Required)

2:30pm – 3:30pm | Concurrent Sessions
#401 - Issues and Trends for Medical Professional Liability in 2016 & Beyond

• Latest on industry trends, including survey of year-end 2015 profitability, reserve adequacy, loss trends and pricing
• Discussion of current and emerging issues for insurance companies (for example M&A, tort reform, healthcare reform and their impact on trends and profitability)
• Discussion of current and emerging issues related to reinsurance, including trends in terms and conditions and influx of the audience for panel of experts        

Moderator: Steven M. Schafer, FCAS - Aon Benfield
David Scott - TransRe
Kellie N. Sorenson, Esq., LHRM - FD Insurance
Sandy Shawver - MCIC Vermont LLC
  
#402 - Mock Data Breach Response

• Applicable laws including HIPAA and HITECH
• Breach response planning (checklists, vendor contracts, public relations, evidence preservation, credit monitoring and more)
• Key response team members and roles
• Cyber security and cyber insurance coverage     

Moderator: Kimarie Stratos, JD - Memorial Healthcare System
Patrice Malloy - Florida's Office of the Attorney General
Alfred J. Saikali - Shook Hardy and Bacon
Linda K. Clark, Esq. & CIPP - RELX Group

3:45pm – 4:45pm | Concurrent Sessions
#501 - Healthcare Access at Your Big Box Store: The Arrival of Retail Healthcare

• Discuss the entry of retail providers into primary care healthcare: growth, goals and profit
• Consider the unique underwriting, claims and risk aspects of retail clinic healthcare
• Review case studies and risk protocols beneficial to this healthcare model
• Share what the future holds for the retail provider and how traditional healthcare providers will compete      

Moderator: Jayme T. Vaccaro - Sedgwick
Alice Epstein, MHA, DFASHRM, FNAHQ, CPHRM, CPHQ - CNA Insurance
Kevin L. O'Brien - Arch Insurance Group - Healthcare
Kathleen Shostek, RN, ARM, BBA, FASHRM, CPHRM, CPPS - Sedgwick
Michael R. Marks, MD, MBA - Marks Healthcare Consulting
  
#502 - National Trends in Obstetrics: Claims and Risk Management

• Hospital and physician claim national trends; including the PIAA, Zurich, Berkley Medical
• Physician OB claim trends: The Doctor's Company's experience
• Risk management and patient safety programs that reduce OB claims: The Sullivan Group

Moderator: Paul A. Greve, Jr., JD, RPLU - Willis Health Care Practice
Julie Brightwell, JD, BSN, RN, CPHRM - The Doctors Company
  
#503 - Discovery Issues in Today's Social Media Society

• Understanding the various social media information available to be discovered
• Identifying the methods for discovery of social media information
• Use of social media information, including presentation to the jury
• Counseling clients on minimizing social media exposure                   

Moderator: Ted Lavender - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Anna Berent - Beazley Group
Brian Bursa - Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

4:45pm – 6:15pm
Networking Reception | Sponsored by: Michael Maglaras & Company

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016 | Mandarin Oriental Miami9:00am –10:00am | Concurrent Sessions
#601 - Discovering the EMR...Beyond the PDF

• Discuss recent trend of courts to provide electronic access to the medical record   
• Review arguments for and against electronic access, compliance concerns and law addressing same
• Discuss logistical issue relative to electronic access
• Electronic access in deposition and at trial          

Moderator: Michael Slovis - Cunningham Myer & Vedrine
Virginia Beach - Trinity Health
Peggy King, RN, MBA, FACHE - NorthShore University HealthSystem
  
#602 - Super Losses - Understanding the Psychology and Developing a Strategy to Defend

• Understanding how cases become super losses and discussion of the super loss trend
• Understanding the issues that lead to super losses and the need to address these issues early in a case
• Understand how an aggressive workup of the defense and theory can guide a jury’s critical thinking
• Once a super verdict comes in, now what?  Understanding the impact of a large verdict on the organization, carrier and community   

Moderator: Jennifer Disner, JD, CPHRM - Western Litigation, Inc.
Richard Henderson - TransRe
Andrew Efaw, Esq. - Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell
Douglas Shaw, Esq. - Western Litigation, Inc.

10:15am –11:15am | Concurrent Sessions
#701 - Medical Identity Theft: A Rapidly Growing Problem

• Describe the methods used to steal identity by individuals within the healthcare organization
• Discuss implications for professional liability
• Discuss implications for risk management and patient safety including risk mitigation strategies

Co-Moderator: Cynthia Siders, RN, MSN, CPHRM, DFASHRM, CPPS - Siders HealthCare Consulting
Co-Moderator: Geraldine Amori, PhD, ARM, DFASHRM, CPHRM - Coverys Education
Karen S. Liptak-Garvey, BSN, MPA/HCA, CPHRM, CPPS - Parkland Health and Hospital System
Sheila Hagg-Rickert, JD, MBA, MHA, CPCU, DFASHRM, CPHRM - Willis of Texas, Inc.
Georgene Saliba, RN, BSN, MBA, CPHRM, FASHRM - UHS of Delaware, Inc. 
  
#702 - Three Underwriters Walk into a Bar

• How different carriers/underwriters have different approaches to underwriting the same risks
• Effects of additional case reserves, loss trending, attachment points and ceding have on premiums
• How the soft market and investing arms of insurers affect company philosophies, budgets and underwriting appetites
• Company’s philosophies on distribution and how it affects your ability to write larger accounts and retain renewals      

Moderator: Daniel Springman, MBA, CPCU - Beazley
Debra Goldberg - Markel Corporation
Robert Allen - Pro-Praxis Insurance
Alicia Marsiglia - Hiscox

11:30am –12:30pm | Concurrent Sessions
#801 - Medicine in the Digital Age: The Doctor Can SEE You Now

• How will telehealth change the face of medicine and impact health care delivery?
• Healthcare providers will be tasked with managing all the moving parts associated with telemedicine. What will they need in their tool box to ensure appropriate medical care and patient privacy?
• The new world of medicine will create new areas of liability issues and influence how claims professionals, hospital risk managers and underwriters do business in the future   

Moderator: Kathleen Lyons - Swiss RE America Holding Corp.
Tina H. Weinstein, Esq. - Montefiore Health System
Laura B. Jordan - Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP 
Patricia Marzella-Graubart - Swiss RE America Holding Corp.
  
#802 - Emerging Exposures

• Potential Exposure with Use of Hospitalist
  • Evolving role of Hospitalist: round-the-clock coverage; continuity of care; and hospitalist-as-ombudsman model
  • Liability: diagnoses; delays in care; medication errors; medical judgment and scope of practice; and discharge process
  • Insurance coverage: independent contractor vs. employee; and implied agency and respondeat superior concerns
  • Risk management: documentation; interfacing with other specialists; and improving patient safety and hospital's bottom line
• Potential Exposure with Telemedicine
  • Definition of telemedicine, who practices it, and specific examples of its application
  • Comments on it by FDA, Joint Commission, American Telemedicine Association, and Medicare/Medicaid
  • State licensure issues concerning its use: when patient and practitioner are in different states
  • Reimbursement issues with Medicare, Medicaid and Private Payors when practicing it
  • Liability: claims as to standard of care, civil rights violations, and involuntary commitments etc.
• Potential Exposure with Electronic Medical Records (EMRs)
  • Genesis of EMRs and transfer of paper records to them
  • Information and terminology in them and risks/benefits of using them
  • Blending of templates with narratives in them: Less is sometimes more with descriptions

Moderator: John B. Mullahy - Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP
James Rosenblum - Rosenblum Newfield
Andre J. Stewart - NORCAL Group

12:30pm |Conference Concludes

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2016 Conference Sponsors

Platinum:
​Ontellus

Silver:
Beazley
Clarity Partners, LLC
Philadelphia Insurance Companies

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Welcome Reception Sponsor:
MagMutual

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Bronze:
ROIG Lawyers
Second Image National

Networking Reception Sponsor:
Michael Maglaras & Company