Seminars

Construction 401 - Project Insurance 101 Claims and more

Virtual

Winnipeg, MB [Map]
Date and Time: June 07, 2022 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

This webinar builds on Construction 101, 201 and Construction 301 sessions and is geared to brokers, underwriters and adjusters along with any other claims professionals handling commercial lines insurance or aspiring to handle commercial claims.

In this session we will discuss common project specific construction insurance policies including Course of Construction (COC), also known as Builder's Risk and Construction All Risk (CAR), Wrap Liability and other project specific insurance policies including Professional Indemnity and Environmental coverages. We will review how these policies interact with one another, and other non-project specific insurance policies.

Attendees will gain a basic understanding of project insurance policies, and the foundations of a sound claim investigation, through discussion of real-world policy and claim examples.

Topics will be discussed at the introductor to intermediate level; the session is not intended to address advanced project policy features or claim investigations.

Attendees will gain an understanding of:

First and Third-Party Project Policies, including:

*Coverages and Exclusions
*Insuring Agreements
*Covered Parties, ie who is an insured?
*Policy Interaction between:
   *Project Policies
   * Other Coverages
    *Claim and Coverage Investigation Best Practices
    *Case Studies of COC, Wrap-up, Professional Indemnity and
    *Environmental Project Specific Claims

Presenters:

Sean Forgie, SVP Specialty Risk Division:

Sean Forgie, Senior Vice-President SRD provides senior leadership and direction for all operational aspects of the Canadian SRD business units, including Complex Commercial Industrial (CCI), Transportation Equipment Cargo (TEC) and BBCG Claim Services. Sean is an Executive General Adjuster with more than 30 years’ industry experience.

Sean handles and supervises large loss and technical casualty claims and oversees the handling of complex claims conducted by the Executive General and Senior General Adjusters that make up the SRD team in Canada.

Lewis Moorman, VP SRD Western Canada:

Lewis is an Executive General Adjuster (EGA) based in Edmonton, Alberta. He began his career in 2010 in Toronto, Ontario where he had strong mentorship under senior adjusters, working on large and complex commercial claims. Lewis moved to Western Canada in 2014 where he had further exposure to heavy industry and industrial losses.

Through his career, Lewis has handled substantial and complex equipment breakdown, construction, commercial property and environmental losses for manufacturers, developers, sports complexes and resorts. Lewis also has cross-border and class-action lawsuit experience.

Michael Buzzeo, VP SRD:

Michael is an Executive General Adjuster (EGA) based out of the Calgary office with claims extending throughout Canada. He is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan University Business Program (major in Insurance and Risk Management) and has secured the FCIP and FRM Designations securing the award "Top Fellow in Risk Management". He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Adjusting Associations.

Prior to commencing his career with ClaimsPro’s Specialty Risk Division (SRD), he gained five years’ experience with a National Canadian Insurer and gained further corporate, commercial and specialty claims experience for four years with an International Loss Adjusting firm. Currently, Michael is handling a wide portfolio of commercial and industrial claims which extend to the Energy (oil & gas) and Mining sectors for various National and International clients.

Format:

Registration: 10:45 a.m.
Presentation: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Registration Deadline: June 3, 2022

Fees: Insurance Institute membership required

Graduate           $55
IIMB Member     $65
Non Member     $65+$90 New Member (includes membership exp May 31, 2023)

Corporate Rate: $50 per attendee for groups of 5 or more (membership is additional for non-members). To register with a corporate rate, please contact iimmail@insuranceinstitute.ca.

CE Credits: ICM Course ID # 38979,1.5 CE Hours General & Adjuster. Please be aware that tardy arrival to or early departure from any seminar or, in the case of a webinar an incomplete session as a result of unresolvable technical difficulties, will preclude IIMB from issuing a CE certificate for the seminar.

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