This webinar will provide you with an overview of Management & Professional Liability related issues. These experts will discuss Director and Officer liability. Topics such as exclusions, Settlors Clauses, and Side A coverage will be examined. This panel will also explore employment practices liability. This specific type of coverage is important regardless of how well you think you treat your employees. Third-party coverage will also be explored. Other topics discussed include crime/employee dishonesty and professional liability, and how each relate to broader insurance coverage. Part of the webinar series: INSURANCE FOR THE BUSINESS OWNER - 101 2022 See more at https://www.financialpoise.com/webinars/

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Practical and entertaining education for
attorneys, accountants, business owners and
executives, and investors.

4. Disclaimer
The material in this webinar is for informational purposes only. It should not be considered
legal, financial or other professional advice. You should consult with an attorney or other
appropriate professional to determine what may be best for your individual needs. While
Financial Poise™ takes reasonable steps to ensure that information it publishes is accurate,
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5. Meet the Faculty
MODERATOR:
John Eggum
Partner & Shareholder – Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC
PANELISTS:
Harvey Topitz
Founder and Principal – Rivers Insurance Group
Dan Rossen, Vice President, Commercial Multi-Peril
ICW Group Insurance Companies
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6. About This Series –
Insurance for the Business Owner 101
There’s one type of contract that virtually every business in the United States enters into each
and every year: their insurance contract(s). Despite being bound by and paying (sometimes
handsomely) for these contracts, they’re not always well understood by the business.
Questions as fundamental as what risks should be insured (v. self-insured or mitigated via
contract) and for how much or what losses will actually be covered and at what value are
simply not commonly understood. This Financial Poise webinar series teaches business
owners, executives and their trusted advisors, what they should know about their property &
casualty insurance so they understand how best to protect their assets and people in the
most cost effective manner.
Each Financial Poise Webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to investors, business owners, and
executives without much background in these areas, yet is of primary value to attorneys, accountants, and other
seasoned professionals. Each episode brings you into engaging, sometimes humorous, conversations designed to
entertain as it teaches. Each episode in the series is designed to be viewed independently of the other episodes so that
participants will enhance their knowledge of this area whether they attend one, some, or all episodes.
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7. About This Webinar –
Protecting a business from professional liability claims, as well as claims against
executives and claims by employees, is a complicated endeavor. This webinar
attempts to help businessowners demystify that process. It addresses professional
liability insurance, and explains the risks and benefits of procuring or deciding to
forego this coverage. The webinar also addresses directors and officers liability
insurance, and the risks it addresses. Other management liability coverages,
including employment practices liability insurance and crime and employee
dishonesty policies, are all addressed.
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8. Episodes in this Series
#1: Understanding Risk Management Basics for Business Owners
Premiere date: 3/24/22
#2: Property/Business Interruption and Cyber Liability
Premiere date: 4/19/22
#3: General Liability, Umbrella/Excess Coverage, Commercial Auto, Workers’ Compensation
Premiere date: 5/17/22
#4: Executive Protection – Directors’ & Officers’, Employment Practices Liability,
Crime/Employee Dishonesty & Professional Liability
Premiere date: 6/14/22
#5: Personal Lines for the Business Owner/Executive
Premiere date: 7/19/22
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9. Episode #4
Professional Liability, D&O Liability, Employment Practices
Liability, and Crime/Employee Dishonesty
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10. Types of Insurance Covered Today
✓Professional Liability
✓D&O Liability
✓Employment Practices Liability
✓Crime/Employee Dishonesty

11. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Distinguishing Professional Liability Insurance from General Liability
Insurance
✓ Common Misconceptions and Misunderstandings

12. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Claims Made Coverage
✓ Know Your Obligations

13. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Notice Only/Notice of Circumstances Reporting
✓ Impact on Premiums? Understanding loss history.

14. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Suing for Your Fees – Are You Asking for a Professional Liability
Claim?
✓ Treatment of Paid Fees Clawed-Back By A Customer/Client.

15. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Intentional Acts
✓ Claim of Fraud

16. Professional Liability Insurance
✓ Cyber liability claims and professional liability claims – intermingling
of issues.

17. Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
✓ Overview
✓ Side A, Side B, Side C???

18. Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
✓ Who Is Covered?
✓ Every person with the title “Director”?
✓ Every person with “VP” in their title?

19. Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
✓ Relationship to Professional Liability Policies and Claims
✓ Exclusions

20. Employment Practices Liability Insurance
✓ Overview
✓ “Management Liability” package of policies.

21. Employment Practices Liability Insurance
✓ Common Exclusions
✓ Defense Issues – Eroding Limits

22. Employment Practices Liability Insurance
✓ Variations in Employment Laws – State by State Considerations?
✓ Who is covered?
✓ Claims from persons that were not hired.

23. Employment Practices Liability Insurance
✓ Notice Issues
✓ ADA Claims – Injunctive Relief and Associated Costs

24. Crime/Employee Dishonesty Coverage
✓ Overview
✓ What Property and Whose Property is Covered?

25. Crime/Employee Dishonesty Coverage
✓ Social Engineering.
✓ IS IT COVERED?

26. Crime/Employee Dishonesty Coverage
✓ Common Exclusions
✓ Misconceptions of businessowners
✓ Treatment of Trade Secrets

27. About the Faculty
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28. About The Faculty
John Eggum – jeggum@fgppr.com | 312-863-5053
Foran Glennon Palandech Ponzi & Rudloff PC
As a partner and shareholder at Foran Glennon, John concentrates his practice on insurance
coverage and bad faith litigation and other commercial disputes. He has assisted insurance
clients in a wide variety of first-party coverage and bad faith matters around the country,
including helping clients navigate pre-suit disputes, appraisal proceedings and coverage and
bad faith litigation through trial. He is a frequent speaker on issues affecting the insurance
industry and the adjustment of insurance claims.
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29. About The Faculty
Dan Rossen, Vice President, Commercial Multi-Peril
ICW Group Insurance Companies
Dan Rossen is leading the development and execution of ICW Group’s newest lines of business as vice
president, commercial multi-peril. He is responsible for establishing all underwriting direction, appetite and
strategy for the business unit, which bundles together multiple property and casualty coverages.
An industry veteran with more than 30 years of insurance experience, Rossen has a long history of
experience leading the strategic direction and deployment of new product lines in various positions he has
held across the industry. Prior to joining ICW Group, Rossen was a vice president at The Hartford in Chicago
leading the Maxum Special Property and E&S binding business.
A Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and an Associate in Reinsurance (ARe), Rossen has
a Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law and a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance
from the University of Cincinnati.
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30. About The Faculty
Harvey Topitz, Rivers Insurance Group – htopitz@ri-gi.com
Harvey is the founder and principal of Rivers Insurance Group. Harvey is a graduate of City University of
New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics/accounting. He is a non-practicing NYS Certified
Public Accountant. Harvey has more than 39 years of experience in the insurance industry, placing property
casualty insurance for all industries and specializing in providing coverage for those businesses hardest to
insure. He began his insurance career at Liberty Mutual, where he was awarded Top Producers designation
and was a member of the prestigious Millionaires Club.At BRI Insurance Brokerage he introduced innovating
programs such as an asbestos abatement contractor’s program.While with Tanenbaum Harber, now
Alliant/T&H Brokers, he excelled in the hard-to-insure employee leasing industry (PEO) and the
entertainment sector insuring celebrities like EMINEM and 50 Cent. Harvey founded Rivers Insurance Group
in 2005. Harvey saw a void in the difficult to place coverage area for companies that were in distress or
working through a Chapter 11 Reorganization. Trustees, Bankruptcy Lawyers and Turnaround professionals
know that Topitz and his team at Rivers Insurance can get the coverage that most brokers run away from. He
has been on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Turnaround Management Association for almost 10
years and is known as the Go-To Insurance Guru.
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their continuing legal education and continuing professional education.
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