This session will provide an overall economic outlook of the property/casualty insurance industry. This session will include a high-level look at industry trends and disrupters. The always-popular Robert Hartwig, Ph.D., will provide important insights that will help you manage your company’s risk.

Robert Hartwig, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Risk & Uncertainty Management
University of South Carolina

Busy professionals are buried under a continuing stream of useful and useless email. Without a system for getting “control of the beast,” professionals spend much of their work – and personal – time spinning their wheels. If you would like to get control of your email “beast,” you should attend this program led by Randy Dean, author of the Amazon bestseller “Taming the Email Beast.” Randy shares strategies for effective email management, organization, and prioritization that have helped thousands of business professionals regain control and sanity with their email activities Enhance your email productivity and efficiency with today by walking away with immediately usable tips and techniques.

Randall Dean

Time & Email Management Author & Speaker
Randall Dean Consulting & Training, LLC

With the continued activity of state laws addressing the commercialization of marijuana and its use as well as the passage of the 2018 Farm Act by Congress, which partly changed some restrictions regarding industrial hemp, two new markets may be emerging in the United States. This webinar will explore the risks and uncertainties in these markets and highlight new exposures insurers may face.

David Geller

Senior Analyst
ISO

Christopher Sirota

Product Development Lead
ISO

What exactly do existing standardized insurance forms really say about coverage for cannabis? Is it covered property under most policies? Is the insurer on the hook for liability stemming from an insured providing someone else cannabis? This session will analyze some of the most common lines of insurance and discuss existing case law related to cannabis claims.

Brenda Wells, Ph.D., CPCU, AAI, CRIS

Owner
Risk Education Strategies

This session will focus on terpenes and cannabinoids, two of a cannabis plant’s major chemical components. Terpenes provide the aroma and flavor of the cannabis plant while cannabinoids act on the human endocannabinoid system in a variety of ways. This session will explain both chemical components so that insurers might better understand the contents of the cannabis plant and the product liability risks associated with it.

Brenda Wells, Ph.D., CPCU, AAI, CRIS

Owner
Risk Education Strategies

One of the most frightening aspects of insuring cannabis-related businesses is the product liability exposure. While there have been virtually no product liability claims related to cannabis consumption, there’s a first time for everything, and the insurance industry needs to be ready. Join this webinar to hear Brenda Wells, an insurance expert, and Melissa Roeder, a product liability defense attorney, discuss the products liability risks associated with cannabis.

Brenda Wells, Ph.D., CPCU, AAI, CRIS

Owner
Risk Education Strategies

Melissa Roeder

Attorney
Foley & Mansfield

Employers are increasingly perplexed about how to avoid mistakes that could result in claims when confronting employees’ the medical and recreational marijuana use, on and off the clock. During this session, attendees will learn about recent changes in state laws and effective guidelines for insurers to help employers establish workplace safety and productivity in this fast-changing environment. This webinar will include concrete real-world examples from which insurers and employers can learn.

Robin Taylor Symons, Esq.

Co-Managing Partner
Gordon & Rees

The cannabis industry raises considerable data privacy and cyber-liability risks based on the manner in which it operates. While often considered small or midsize businesses, cannabis dispensaries and the producers they offer have onerous state compliance reporting requirements. Furthermore, the industry relies heavily on technical solutions and massive amounts of personal data for operations, marketing, auditing, and security. All of that combined with a very limited choice of industry technology solutions can create a perfect storm of cyber insurance risks for the cannabis industry. In this session, attendees will learn how the insurance industry can mitigate the cyber risks of cannabis in the insurance industry.

Eduard Goodman

Global Privacy Officer
CyberScout

This presentation will provide an outline of the evolution of the legal cannabis industry to date, including seed-to-sale companies and ancillary businesses, and industry predictions. The presenters will focus on providing clarity of what medical and recreational use is and is not, current state and federal legislative actions, and how hemp and CBD different from cannabis. The session will address challenges and issues impacting the insurance industry during this period of growth and how they will evolve. It will close with a discussion of risks, opportunities, and questions that exist for insurance companies.

Michele Sullivan

Partner, Insurance Consulting Leader
Crowe

Mike Varney

Partner
Crowe

When it comes to how insurance works in the marijuana industry, it can be a problem if you don’t know your facts. This session will provide an overview of the various types of insurance policies the cannabis industry is seeking – property/casualty and directors and officers, for example –and the issues that arise with each of them. It will discuss various insurance issues in the marijuana industry such as enforceability/non-enforceability of insurance policies. The presenter will also touch on how insurance companies can ensure that they don't inadvertently insure cannabis activity.

Zane Gilmer

Partner
Stinson

This session will focus on code and regulatory requirements for safe, secure cannabis operations. Discussion topics will include fire safety considerations associated with cultivation structures, oil extraction equipment, gas detection systems, carbon dioxide enrichment systems, and horticultural lighting.

Joe Zureikat

Business Development Manager
UL

The presentation will explore cannabis’s various risk classifications types – from seed to sale – and the unique exposures each risk presents. Additional context will be provided about underwriting considerations for main coverages, including property, crop, financial lines, and stock throughput. The session will conclude with a discussion on unaddressed market needs and potential areas for growth.

Paul Callero

Associate Director
Aon

Rich Golz

Cannabis and Hemp Risk Consultant
Aon

Whether you agree with the legalization and use of recreational or medicinal marijuana, 47 states have changed the substance’s legal status, and workplaces need to be prepared to address the myriad of issues it presents.

Because many drug-free-workplace polices are now outdated, employers should ask themselves several questions. “Is our policy too punitive?” “Can we be sued for discrimination?” “Can we terminate an employee with a legal prescription if he or she tests positive?”

With the current state of marijuana legislation, there is no doubt the answers are changing. What isn’t in question, however, are the facts that employers need policies regarding drug use and those policies must address intoxication and impairment in the workplace. Join this session to learn more about how legal drugs are impacting the workplace and solutions to workplace liabilities.

Jodi Debbrecht Switalski

Attorney & Consultant
Switalski Law & Consulting PLLC

As of January 2020, 47 states have legalized marijuana for medical and/or recreational use. The session will begin with a broad overview of the regulatory environment and then drill into the data to see what it has to say. It will also tease out the early impacts of marijuana legalization as well as the risks – and even potential benefits – beneath the news headlines.

Zak Alvarez

Advisor – Strategy & Planning
TransUnion