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California Insurance Law Year in Review - 2025
$74.99
Credits in
1.00 General
Practice Areas:
Insurance, Litigation, Personal Injury and Negligence
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About
This Course
The Insurance Section is pleased to provide the long-standing annual California Insurance Law Year in Review Program for 2025. Please join us for a combination of detailed insight into recent insurance law decisions, spirited debate and practical tips. This program will benefit coverage lawyers, litigators, and in-house counsel alike.
Topics
- Occurrence and concurrent causation for diminished capacity, negligence and intentional conduct
- Wildfire smoke and direct physical loss or damage requirement
- Sudden and accidental pollution exclusion exception and gradual property damage
- Genuine dispute doctrine and the third-party duty to settle
- And more!
About the Presenters
Rani Gupta, Esq.
Covington & Burling
Practice Area: Litigation (+ 3 other areas)
Rani Gupta is a litigator who represents corporate policyholders in high-stakes insurance coverage disputes. She has been recognized by Chambers, Law360, Forbes, Business Insurance, and the Daily Journal for her success recovering hundreds of millions of dollars for her policyholder clients.Rani’s successful representations include obtaining an arbitration award in favor of an energy company pursuing insurance coverage for product liability claims; representing a managed care provider in a $100 million insurance recovery action that resolved favorably after key rulings in the insured’s favor; and successfully obtaining coverage for sexual misconduct claims in a contested arbitration.Rani has obtained coverage for a wide range of losses, including product ...
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Tamiko Dunham, Esq.
Nicolaides Fink Thorpe Michaelides Sullivan
Practice Area: Insurance (+ 3 other areas)
Tamiko has extensive experience counseling domestic and London-based clients on novel and complex issues involving various coverage lines, including commercial general liability, professional liability, first-party property, commercial auto, public entity, reinsurance, and cyber liability.Tamiko also represents insurers in insurance coverage and bad faith disputes and has successfully litigated coverage issues in state and federal courts. As monitoring counsel, Tamiko regularly advises her clients on claims handling strategy and navigating high-exposure matters through to favorable resolution. Tamiko also assists clients in drafting policy language, evaluating underwriting issues, and responding to Department of Insurance inquiries.MembershipsBar Association of San Francisco, Insurance Practice Section, ChairCalifornia ...
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Leo Martinez, Esq.
UC Law SF
Practice Area: Professional Development (+ 5 other areas)
Leo Martinez is Albert Abramson Professor of Law Emeritus and a proud member of the UC Law SF Class of 1978. Following his graduation from UC Law SF, Professor Martinez met his military commitment as a member of the U.S. Army JAG Corps, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and built a private practice focused on tax issues with the San Francisco law firm of Howard Rice, et al. He joined the UC Law SF faculty in 1985 and served as UC Law SF’ Academic Dean for 12 years.Professor Martinez returned to the classroom full-time in 2006, interrupted in ...
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