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This webinar provides strategies and tactics that maximize recovery for associations and developers pursuing cross complaints or indemnity claims with a special emphasis on insurance coverage. Trial counsel for associations, developers and a mediator share their unique experiences on pleading, negotiation, economic loss, designer liability, insurance coverage, “collapsed LLCs” and other new trends in case handling and resolution.
Special Note: This program is a recorded education session from the 2015 CAI Law Seminar.
Duration: 90 minutes
Program Description
This webinar provides strategies and tactics that maximize recovery for associations and developers pursuing cross complaints or indemnity claims with a special emphasis on insurance coverage. Trial counsel for associations, developers and a mediator share their unique experiences on pleading, negotiation, economic loss, designer liability, insurance coverage, “collapsed LLCs” and other new trends in case handling and resolution.
Speakers
Jeffery Youngerman is a principal in the law firm Flaherty & Youngerman PC in Chicago Illinois. He has been representing community associations in litigation since 1986. Since 1990, he has prosecuted a wide variety of construction defect cases and related claims, as well as litigating insurance coverage for those claims. As a trial lawyer since 1986 he is a member of the Illinois Bar and the Federal Trial Bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Youngerman has substantial experience arguing before the Illinois Appellate Court and the Illinois Supreme Court in cases involving significant construction law issues. He is currently handling a matter before the Illinois Appellate court on the issue of whether or not construction professionals are liable under the implied warranty of habitability when the developer is insolvent. He is a frequent lecturer on construction litigation, including serving as a faculty member for Lorman Education Services. He is regularly consulted by local media on construction topics. He is also a long time member of CAI.
Gregory Dillion is one of the founding partners of Newmeyer & Dillion LLP, which has grown from three attorneys in 1984 to over 70 lawyers in Newport Beach and Walnut Creek, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. He specializes in the representation of developers, institutional lenders, general contractors and other businesses in complex and high stakes business, construction and insurance coverage disputes. Greg has an active trial and appellate practice. He has defensed multimillion dollar claims and obtained eight figure verdicts and hundreds of millions in settlements. He is responsible for published decisions at the California Federal, Supreme Court and Appellate levels that have changed the course of California law.
Craig S. Meredith, Esq. has successfully served as a mediator in hundreds of cases, locally and nationally, involving complex insurance disputes, including construction defect cases, inter-carrier and insured-carrier disputes, broker disputes, bad faith litigation, bodily injury suits, and other disputes. Additionally, he has participated in more than 400 settlements of major construction litigation as coverage counsel for the developer or general contractor. Mr. Meredith is most widely known for his expertise in the areas of insurance coverage with a primary emphasis on general liability coverage issues for commercial construction, construction defect, engineering and infrastructure, and environmental matters. He is also known and respected for his ability to form relationships with both carrier representatives and outside counsel.).
Tyler Berding, founding partner of Berding & Weil LLP, has represented the commercial and residential real estate industry since 1974. Mr. Berding has litigated numerous building product and construction failures. The firm has resolved over 700 complex construction-defect claims in California, Florida, Arizona and Hawaii. His special expertise has been in water intrusion, soil issues, failed building systems, and building-product failures. He primarily represents residential building owners and commercial investors. Mr. Berding is a seasoned trial lawyer who has successfully litigated hundreds of construction defect cases.
Continuing Education Credit
This program provides credit toward:
- Certified Manager of Community Associations recertification
- Association Management Specialist redesignation
- Professional Community Association Manager redesignation
To earn credit, you must be personally registered for this program and print the certificate of completion to document your participation.
Manager Certifications and
Designations
Certified Manager of Community Associations
(CMCA®) /Association Management Specialist
(AMS®) /Professional Community Association Manager
(PCAM®) /Large-Scale Manager
(LMS®)
Management Company Designation
Accredited Association Management Company
(AAMC®)
Service Provider Designations and
Distinctions
Reserve Specialist
(RS®)/Community Insurance and Risk Management
Specialist (CIRMS®)/Educated Business
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