Speakers:

• Joel W. Meskin, Esq., CIRMS, McGowan Program Administrators, Fairview Park, OH has been Vice President – Community Association Insurance and Risk Management, McGowan & Company, Inc., since January, 2005. McGowan & Company, Inc., now known as McGowan Program Administrators is a leading provider of Community Association and Property Manager Insurance Products nationwide. Joel is the former Senior Vice President, Ian H. Graham Insurance from 2001 and 2004. Joel is an attorney who spent 15 years specializing in insurance coverage, business and related litigation. Joel is also an insurance broker who first obtained his license in 1981. He obtained the designation of a Community Insurance & Risk Management Specialist.
  
  
• Thomas Ware, II, Esq., Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware LLP, Sherman Oaks, CA For the past twenty-seven years, Mr. Ware’s practice has focused on the representation of nonprofit homeowners associations, their volunteer directors and officers, and HOA property managers. He has extensive experience in representing common interest developments, non-profit homeowners associations, and their volunteer directors in connection with general corporate issues, real estate matters, litigation, insurance, fidelity bond claims, and appellate matters. Mr. Ware was one of the attorneys of record for the prevailing parties in the landmark California Supreme Court case Nahrstedt v. Lakeside Village Condominium Association which established the legal framework and standards for enforcing CC&R provisions.