Conference Presenting Sponsor
EmPRO Insurance Company is a medical professional liability carrier dedicated to protecting the healthcare communities of New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
We provide:
- Risk, malpractice, and mental health programming and offer support to ensure that policyholders feel secure, confident, and covered.
- Outstanding customer service that is responsive, efficient, and capable.
- Comprehensive liability products specialized to meet individual needs.
- Aggressive claims defense from a team with years of experience in risk management and loss mitigation.
Learn more at www.myempro.com
Napa River Insurance Services, Inc. is a premier third-party administrator providing claims and risk management services to clients including hospitals and healthcare systems, aging services, physician office practices, and other healthcare facilities. Our experienced professionals will uncover and manage risks so your focus can remain on your patients, caregivers and vision. Napa River is wholly owned by Hudson Insurance Company.
Hudson Insurance Group is a market-leading specialty insurer with over 20 years of experience in the medical professional liability marketplace. The HudsonPro® Medical Professional Liability team of underwriters, claim specialists and risk managers is dedicated to providing the insurance products, services and financial security healthcare providers need to practice medicine. Hudson’s companies are rated A+ (Superior) by AM Best, FSC XV.
Conference Sponsors
Admiral Insurance Group has been supporting business innovation and market growth through our wholesale-dedicated excess and surplus (E&S) lines of commercial insurance. We specialize in underwriting difficult-to-place to moderate to high-risk commercial businesses that require creative solutions, outside-of-the-box thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and astute business knowledge. As a member of the W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500® Company and one of the nation’s premier commercial lines property casualty insurance providers, we have the resources, support, and industry data to provide exceptional service and exciting solutions for our clients and partners.
Litchfield Cavo LLP is a premier coverage and litigation defense law firm founded in 1998 on one principle—client service comes first. Litchfield Cavo attorneys are formidable client advocates with extensive experience defending medical professionals against claims of negligence, malpractice and misconduct, and issues pertaining to licensing and credentialing.
Med-IQ provides proactive risk solutions – education, consulting, analytics — to hospitals, health systems, and MPL carriers to support clinical risk and loss prevention strategies. Our programs currently support about 170 clients across the United States to identify institutional risk, educate healthcare providers about clinical risk exposure, and measure outcomes.
Bio coming soon.
For over 70 years, Wicker Smith has represented hospitals, physicians, long-term care providers, mental health institutions, and a variety of other healthcare professionals. As a full-service litigation firm, we handle administrative and licensing matters, professional liability, medical malpractice, and pharmaceutical and medical device litigation in both state and federal court.
QBE North America is a global insurance leader committed to helping customers solve unique risks. Our Healthcare Liability practice proudly offers comprehensive solutions tailored to the evolving needs of healthcare organizations and life science innovators. Our seasoned team of specialized underwriters, claims and actuarial professionals brings extensive experience, ensuring expert guidance and customized coverage for complex healthcare risks.
Focused advocacy for healthcare providers, government entities, and professionals statewide.
Ferrainolo Allen, P.A. was born from a shared vision between two seasoned attorneys—Dave Ferrainolo and Brent Allen—who each built distinguished careers at different AM 100 law firms. Having led high-stakes litigation and managed operations across Florida, they recognized a need for a firm that places clients at the center of every decision. Their mission: to create a legal practice where strategy, empathy, and excellence converge from the inception of a case through its resolution.
This vision wasn’t just a professional goal—it was personal. After years of working within the fast-paced, high-pressure world of large law firms, Dave and Brent saw how easy it was for clients to feel like just another case file. They knew there had to be a better way. So they set out to build something different: a firm that delivers the same level of legal sophistication, but with a heart. They imagined a place where clients would feel heard, respected, and supported—where legal advice would be clear, thoughtful, and tailored to each person’s unique situation. Ferrainolo Allen was founded to bridge that gap between elite legal service and genuine human connection.
From day one, the firm has been committed to building real relationships—ones grounded in trust, transparency, and mutual respect. Every case is approached with care and precision, but also with the understanding that behind every legal issue is a person, a family, or a business counting on guidance they can rely on.
Grail Learning is an education and analytics company that provides risk management training for your medical staff and data-driven intelligence for your risk managers.
Utilizing our learn, practice, improve approach, our programs help reduce you clinical risk, inform your analytics-based risk management decisions, measure your program improvement, and strengthen your risk profile in the insurance marketplace.
Veritext is the global leader in court reporting and deposition services. With a focus on excellence, Veritext has crafted the leading court reporting program tailored specifically for corporations. Our innovative program fosters a collaborative atmosphere, allowing in-house claims and legal teams to seamlessly partner with outside counsel. Augmented by our patented technologies, the Veritext solution is designed to enhance the overall value and effectiveness of your legal proceedings while prioritizing security.
Moreover, partnering with Veritext can significantly reduce legal spend for corporations. Through our comprehensive dashboard, corporations gain access to manage legal spend efficiently, ensuring cost-effectiveness without compromising on quality. Operating in over 100 legal markets across the US and Canada, Veritext collaborates daily with local court reporters and videographers to ensure reliable and efficient service.
For more information, please visit our website at www.veritext.com.
Bio coming soon.
ISI (Insurance Systems Inc.) delivers ISI Core, ISI AI and ISI Portal, purpose-built solutions for medical professional liability insurers. ISI Core supports policy administration, claims, accounting and reinsurance. ISI AI automates underwriting workflows, while ISI Portal provides digital services to policyholders and distribution partners. Insurers including NCMIC and Integris Group rely on ISI to streamline operations and manage risk
Arcadia Settlements Group helps resolve personal injury claims by reducing litigation costs and creating long-term financial security. Through expert settlement consulting, we guide parties with proven strategies and empathy. Properly structured settlements deliver tax-free payments for claimants and final resolution for defendants.
Hall Booth Smith is a nationally recognized medical malpractice defense law firm representing physicians, nurses, hospitals, and health care systems. With deep medical knowledge and trial experience, our attorneys defend complex claims and provide strategic counsel on risk management, credentialing, and patient care issues before, during, and after litigation.
Origami Risk empowers leaders in insurance, risk, and safety with a purpose-built, cloudnative platform that optimizes workflows for better data, better insights, and better collaboration. Through highly configurable solutions integrated on a single platform, Origami Risk supports the management of the full lifecycle of risk, from prevention to recovery — helping the experts reduce harm and loss, and respond more rapidly and effectively when it happens. Grounded in continuous innovation and a foundational focus on client success, Origami Risk is trusted by leading organizations to enable greater resilience as they build for the future. For more information, visit origamirisk.com
Wilson Elser is the preeminent defense litigation firm in the United States. At any given time, our more than 1,400 attorneys are engaged in some 100,000 defense and coverage matters, with many defending clients in various local, state, and federal courts. Indeed, over more than four decades, our litigation, coverage, and trial lawyers have gained a reputation for taking on and prevailing in the most challenging and technical cases, frequently “parachuting in” to assume unresolved matters from other law firms. Our success also derives from winning on our clients’ terms and rigorously adhering to their guidelines. We are ranked 95 in the Am Law 100 and 36 in the National Law Journal’s NLJ 500. For more information, go to www.wilsonelser.com.
Conference Contributing Sponsor
Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, and investment operations around the world. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and founded in 1930, Markel reports its ongoing underwriting operations in three segments, and products originate from four insurance divisions and one reinsurance division. Markel Ventures, a subsidiary that makes strategic investments in companies outside of the insurance marketplace, is another important component of our business. In each of our businesses, we seek to deliver innovative products and responsive customer service so that we can be a market leader. Our time horizon is long-term, our underwriting approach is disciplined, and our focus is on continuously improving the quality of the customer experience. Our financial goals are to earn consistent underwriting and operating profits and to combine those profits with superior investment returns to build shareholder value.
Beazley is a global specialist insurer, that enables its clients to explore new ventures, create innovative solutions and build a stronger tomorrow. It strives to do the right thing rather than the easy thing, and puts being a sustainable business at the heart of everything it does, to help shape a brighter future for our people, partners and planet. In a world fast becoming head-scratchingly complex, it relishes a challenge and is seen as the insurance industry’s go to problem solvers, seeing every risk as an opportunity to do things differently.
SEAK, Inc. specializes in witness preparation. We help physicians, nurses, mid-level providers,and other medical witnesses testify effectively at depositions, hearings, and trials. We haveprepared countless medical defendants and expert witnesses in high-stakes medicalmalpractice cases and have trained many thousands on how to testify more effectively.
www.malpracticetestifyingtraining.com
Conference Breakfast Sponsor
Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, and investment operations around the world. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia and founded in 1930, Markel reports its ongoing underwriting operations in three segments, and products originate from four insurance divisions and one reinsurance division. Markel Ventures, a subsidiary that makes strategic investments in companies outside of the insurance marketplace, is another important component of our business. In each of our businesses, we seek to deliver innovative products and responsive customer service so that we can be a market leader. Our time horizon is long-term, our underwriting approach is disciplined, and our focus is on continuously improving the quality of the customer experience. Our financial goals are to earn consistent underwriting and operating profits and to combine those profits with superior investment returns to build shareholder value.
Beazley is a global specialist insurer, that enables its clients to explore new ventures, create innovative solutions and build a stronger tomorrow. It strives to do the right thing rather than the easy thing, and puts being a sustainable business at the heart of everything it does, to help shape a brighter future for our people, partners and planet. In a world fast becoming head-scratchingly complex, it relishes a challenge and is seen as the insurance industry’s go to problem solvers, seeing every risk as an opportunity to do things differently.
Conference Ad Sponsor
ESIS®, Inc., a Chubb company, provides claim and risk management services to a wide variety of commercial clients. ESIS’ innovative best-in-class approach to program design, integration, and achievement of results aligns with the needs and expectations of our clients’ unique risk management needs. With more than 70 years of experience, and offerings in both the U.S. and globally, ESIS provides
one of the industry’s broadest selections of risk management solutions covering both pre- and post-loss services. For more information, visit us at www.esis.com and www.chubb.com.
Conference Networking Sponsor
Admiral Insurance Group has been supporting business innovation and market growth through our wholesale-dedicated excess and surplus (E&S) lines of commercial insurance. We specialize in underwriting difficult-to-place to moderate to high-risk commercial businesses that require creative solutions, outside-of-the-box thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and astute business knowledge. As a member of the W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500® Company and one of the nation’s premier commercial lines property casualty insurance providers, we have the resources, support, and industry data to provide exceptional service and exciting solutions for our clients and partners.
With exceptional legal skills, HAT LAW expertly achieves the solution each client seeks. With a vast knowledge of the healthcare industry’s intricacies, our medical malpractice lawyers represent all levels of medical providers against claims of medical negligence. Our lawyers actively handle cases in Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.
S&A Medical Graphics is the nation’s leading creator of demonstrative evidence for the defense of medical malpractice litigation. We are experts in the field of medical illustration and visual strategy. Our highly trained medical illustrators have graduate degrees in the field of medical illustration, ensuring accurate, effective, and compelling demonstrative exhibits.
With over 25 years of medical malpractice defense experience, Ben Newman provides effective and results-driven alternative dispute resolution services concentrating on medical malpractice and long-term care cases throughout Florida. Ben Newman provides court-ordered mediation, arbitration, and special magistrate services throughout the State of Florida.