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PRESENT A TION

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 | 4:00 PM ET

COVID-19 Legal Implications for the Insurance Industry and Your Program

Paul White, Wilson Elser

The impact of COVID-19 on the insurance industry is unprecedented. The potential exposures arising from
this global pandemic prompt an analysis of myriad insurance risks under a variety of products for first-party
property and business interruption benefits, event cancellations, and liability claims. This presentation will
explore the emergence of COVID-19 and its short-term and long-term impact on insurance risks. Counsel
will explore the status and multi-billion dollar stakes of global litigation raising insurance coverage issues,
the specter of millions of COVID-19 liability claims filling the world’s courts, and global legislative efforts
to tackle both insurance coverage and liability issues. Finally, counsel will provide projections and an
assessment on ultimate legal resolutions regarding both insurance coverage issues and liability exposures.

Sponsored by

Paul White
Partner, Wilson Elser

Paul White 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.

In his litigation practice, Paul focuses on commercial business litigation, including professional liability actions
brought against insurance agents and brokers. In addition to his insurance practice, Paul advises entertainment
and technology companies on the management of intellectual property risks.

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.

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