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COVID-19: A Status Report on Insurance Implications Arising from a Global Pandemic
Arising from a Global Pandemic
Speaker: Paul S. White
June 12th at 2 PM ET
In early March The Institutes CPCU Society, in partnership with Paul White and the Wilson Elser firm, provided its members with a cutting-edge primer on the insurance coverage implications arising from COVID-19. Paul has agreed to provide The Institutes with a status report on these ever-changing issues
In a matter of months, COVID-19 has infected over 6 million people, killed over 100,000, and crippled the global economy--resulting in losses expected to exceed the trillion dollar mark. The impact on the insurance industry in unprecedented and has been felt worldwide with policyholders seeking coverage under a variety of property, event cancellation, and liability insurance policies. This presentation will address those claims, the litigation arising therefrom, and legislative efforts to address pandemic coverage.
Presented by the Risk Management Interest Group
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Paul S. White
Paul S. White is a partner in the Wilson Elser’s Los Angeles office. Paul focuses his practice on complex insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and represents defendants in commercial litigation. Paul's insurance coverage practice includes advising and representing insurers in bad faith litigation and insurance policy disputes, including first-party property policies, general liability coverage, errors and omissions insurance, and media liability insurance. He also advises and represents insurers in subrogation actions on property losses. In addition, Paul has litigated and arbitrated disputes throughout the United States involving domestic and foreign insurance agents and brokers in all lines of coverage. He has broad experience in the business practices of all types of insurance intermediaries, including brokers at every level in the broking process, from producers to managing general agents to London Market brokers.
Paul regularly speaks and publishes for groups such as DRI, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), Property & Liability Resource Bureau/Liability Insurance Research Bureau (PLRB/LIRB), the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, and the National Business Institute on insurance coverage issues, including, among others, intellectual property, bad faith, professional liability, employment, environmental and construction defects. In 2016, Paul received the Outstanding Presenter award from PLRB. He is a former chair of DRI’s Insurance Law Committee.