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Industry Presence
New York IRD Partner
Nick Pearson is President of
the Insurance Federation
of New York.
Last year Nick initiated IFNY Interns -- a summer program to introduce motivated local high school students from disadvantaged personal circumstances to the New York insurance and financial services sector. The goal was to provide an opportunity for the insurance industry to positively influence the career paths and life choices of youngsters who have demonstrated a deep interest in achievement and overcoming their difficult beginnings.
IFNY Interns was administered in cooperation with YES!Solutions, Inc., a Harlem-based 501(c)(3) community service organization. YES!Solutions is well known to the insurance community through Mary Lanning, an insurance and financial services consultant who personally launched the work of YES!Solutions more than 40 years ago and continues to lead its programs. YES!Solutions, in accord with a plan developed with IFNY, selected and prepared six qualified high school students to be IFNY Interns. These young teens were part of the Boys Hope Girls Hope residential community in Brooklyn. Boys Hope Girls Hope [bhghny.org] provides at-risk youngsters with free structured group residential living, where counseling, mentoring, academic opportunities and frequent community service lead them on a steady path to personal achievement and success. Almost all Boys Hope Girls Hope participants go on to college, many on scholarship.
Over a period of eight weeks, IFNY members served as volunteer hosts for the IFNY Interns, who learned about the members' business operations from the ground up. IFNY members also raised $36,000 in charitable contributions to YES!Solutions and Boys Hope Girls Hope to defray the costs of administering the IFNY Interns program and in support of the Boys Hope Girls Hope program.
The feedback from last year's program was extremely positive and heartening. The companies that hosted the IFNY Interns reported that the experience was gratifying and emotionally rewarding. Many of their employees were deeply touched by their personal interactions with the IFNY Interns. Tellingly, all were eager to do it again. The IFNY Interns all reported that they learned a great deal and would carry wonderful memories of the program for the rest of their lives. Our own experience at EWP as a host certainly bears out all the enthusiastic reports.
IFNY is now gearing up for the IFNY Interns program for the summer of 2013. If any of our readers are interested in learning more about the program, they are encouraged to contact:
Gina Balog,
Executive Administrator
Insurance Federation of New York, Inc.
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Accolades
- David Kendall and Francis Mackie (London), Nick Pearson (New York), Alan Levin (Hartford) and Martin Lister (Hong Kong) have again been listed in The International Who's Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2013.
- Nick Pearson (New York) has been listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers. Nick was also re-elected President of the Insurance Federation of New York.
- Rob DiUbaldo (New York) was named by Thomson Reuters as a 2012 New York and 2013 New Jersey "Rising Star" in the areas of Insurance Coverage, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation.
Speaking Engagements
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Chris Finney (London) spoke on "Regulatory Perspectives: The Latest Word from the US, UK and EU" at a Massachusetts Reinsurance Bar Association program, in October 2012. Chris was also a co-speaker at the Edwards Wildman seminar entitled "Outsourcing & Solvency II: Managing Regulatory Risk," on November 20, 2012.
- Huhnsik Chung (New York) spoke on “Insurance Implications of Shale Gas Drilling Operations” at the HB Litigation Conference, on November 30, 2012. The program focused on anticipated coverage issues impacting various insurance product lines from claims that may arise from hydrofracking operations.
- Mark Meyer (London) spoke on "The Insurance of Airport Liability Claims" at the Airports Council International Risk Management Conference, in Las Vegas on January 10, 2013.
- Ted Augustinos (Hartford) and Laurie Kamaiko (New York) with Richard Graham (London) of our IP Department, presented a program entitled "Everyone’s Nightmare: Privacy and Data Breach Risks" at the International Underwriting Association (IUA), in London on February 5, 2013, and held a workshop on the same topic at the Lloyds Market Association (LMA), in London on February 8, 2013. Ted, Laurie and Richard are members of the Steering Committee of the firm's Privacy and Data Protection Group.
- Josh Broudy (Hartford), Mark Meyer (London) and John Hughes (Boston) spoke at the Edwards Wildman seminar entitled "Directors and Officers Insurance: An International Perspective," on February 5, 2013.
- Darlene Alt (Chicago) and Rob DiUbaldo (New York) spoke at the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida's Annual Conference on "Business Interruption/Contingent Business Interruption Insurance and Superstorm Sandy," on February 22, 2013.
- Nick Pearson (New York) presided over the Insurance Federation of New York's Breakfast with Joy Feigenbaum, Executive Deputy Superintendent at the New York State Department of Financial Services, Financial Fraud & Consumer Protection Division, on February 28, 2013.
- David Kendall and Nathan Hull (London), Barry Weissman (Los Angeles) and Paulette Brown (Madison, N.J.) presented "Choice of Law and Discrimination Claims" to the Bermuda CPCU Society, on March 5, 2013.
- Chris Finney (London) spoke on "Collecting and using Big Data in the Insurance Sector" at The Big Data Workshop, a Society of Computer Lawyers event, hosted in our London office, on March 5, 2013.
- David Kendall and Nathan Hull (London) and Barry Weissman (Los Angeles) spoke on "Reinsurers on Regulatory Confidentiality, Sanctions and Choice of Law," to the Association of Bermuda Insurers, on March 6, 2013.
- Rob DiUbaldo (New York) made a presentation to the Reinsurance Association of America’s Claims and Underwriting Committee on hydrofracking and related insurance/reinsurance issues, on March 6, 2013.
Upcoming speaking engagements:
- Edwards Wildman is sponsoring the IRLA Congress in Brighton, UK on April 24/25, 2013. Jon Yorke (London) will be speaking on "Practical Engineering of Restructuring," and Chris Finney (London) will be chairing a regulatory panel entitled "No One Wants to Talk About Regulation? Is There a Domicile Dilemma?". Mark Everiss (London), an IRLA Director, and Damian Connolly (London) are also attending the Congress.
- Mark Everiss (London) will be hosting a panel at the IACP London Conference on May 2, 2013 entitled "Hydrofracking - Future Energy; Future Risk?". The speakers on the panel include Huhnsik Chung (New York), Dominick Hoare, joint active underwriter, Watkins Syndicate, and a speaker from Matthews Daniel, London.
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