2019 Virtual Event Series
This series will provide a multi-faceted approach to understanding the impact of cannabis on the insurance industry. Sessions in this series are designed for product development, underwriting, workers’ compensation, and claims professionals who need to understand the basics, legality, insurability, risks, and challenges associated with cannabis.
Recognizing that one size does not always fit all, NAMIC has created flexible registration options for your organization. You have the option to register for individual webinars, the full Cannabis – Risks and Opportunities series, or a Company Pass, which gives you access to all six 2020 NAMIC Virtual Events webinar series. Registration for individual webinars is available under each session title below.
All webinars will air at 2 p.m. ET and will be available on-demand to view at your convenience within 24 hours of the live airing. All registered attendees have access to the on-demand recordings for up to one year.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Analyst
ISO
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.
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.
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.
Owner
Risk Education Strategies
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.
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.
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.
Partner, Insurance Consulting Leader
Crowe
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.
Partner
Stinson
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.
Associate Director
Aon
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.
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.
Advisor – Strategy & Planning
TransUnion