EECMA SPRING 2011 MEETING AND CONFERENCE

EECMA 2011 CONFERENCE AND MEETING South Seas Resort, Captiva Island, Florida MAY 11- MAY 13, 2011 Conference Agenda Download Agenda in PDF format
Section Links: Conference Sponsors Wednesday, May 11th Thursday, May 12th Friday, May 13th CONFERENCE SPONSORS: *Dinners/Reception* Bates White LLC CALMAR Associates LLC EFI Global, Inc. Environmental Health &Engineering, Inc. (EHE) Environmental Resources Management (ERM) Johnson Wright, Inc. Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. Roux, Inc. Sandler Occupational Medical Associates (SOMA) Stratos Legal Vertex, Inc. *Luncheon and Breaks* CETRA Language Solutions, Inc. Ecology & Environment, Inc. (E&E) Hydro-Environmental Technologies, Inc. (HETI) General Conference Information: The May 11th welcome reception and dinner will be on the King’s Crown lawn and dinner on May12th will be on Sunset beach. The general session of the conference will be held at the Conference Center in the Captiva West Room. Lunch on May 12th will be served in the Captiva East room. Concurrent sessions on May 13th will be in the Captiva West and Sanibel Breakout rooms. Continental breakfast will be served in the Captiva Ballroom Foyer both days. Trolley Service: EECMA will have a dedicated trolley each day to the Conference Center from the North end for those staying at the North end. Please see below the outline of times below:
5/12	7:00AM-7:45AM	North Pointe #6 (Located in front of the Pool Complex) to Conference Center (Trolley will make continental loops)
	5:15PM-5:45PM	Conference Center to North Pointe #6
5/13	6:45AM-7:30AM	North Pointe #6 (Located in front of the Pool Complex) to Conference Center (Trolley will make continental loops)
	1:30PM-2:00PM	Conference Center to North Pointe #6 (For any remaining guests not checking out on 5/13)
CONFERENCE AGENDA Wednesday, May 11th:
6:00pm – 6:30pm		Welcome, Registration & Name Tags
6:30pm – 9:00pm		Cocktail Reception & Dinner on King’s Crown Lawn Compliments of Our Sponsors
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Thursday, May 12th:		General Session: Captiva West Ballroom
7:45am – 8:45am		Continental Breakfast
8:45am – 9:00am		Welcome & Logistics Gregory Kelder, Resolute Management Inc., Philadelphia, PA
9:00am – 10:00am		The Coverage Year In Review Laura Foggan, Esq., Wiley Rein, LLP, Washington, D.C. Michael Aylward, Esq., Morrison Mahoney LLP, Boston, MA
10:00am – 10:30am		Personal Injury and Diminution in Property Values Related to Environmental Condition: Recent Trends in the Law Larry Silver, Esq. & Mark Stevens, Esq., Langsam Stevens & Silver LLP, Philadelphia, PA
10:30am – 10:45am		***Networking Break with Refreshments***
10:45am – 11:30am		Benzene Update Howard Sandler, M.D., Sandler Occupational Medicine Associates, Inc., Melville, NY Dennis C. Ertel, CIH, CSP, REM, COO/Senior Scientist, Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Sandler Occupational Medicine Associates, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD John Shaffery, Esq., Poole and Shaffery, Los Angeles, CA
11:30am – 12:00pm		Sink or Swim in the Passaic River- Upcoming Remediation and NRD Daniel Sullivan, Roux Associates, Islandia, NY
12:00pm – 12:15pm		Data on Environmental and Other Toxic Tort Filings Lucy P. Allen, Senior VP, NERA Economic Consulting, New York, NY
12:15pm – 1:30pm		***Luncheon* Captiva East Ballroom Compliments of Our Sponsors**
1:30pm – 2:15pm		Optimizing Environmental Costs: Are Insureds Paying Too Much? Adam H. Love, Alborz A. Wozniak, and Peter W. Johnson, Johnson Wright, Inc., Lafayette, CA
2:15pm – 3:00pm		A Paler Shade of Green: The Reality of Renewable Energy Edward J. Hinchey, P.G. Environmental Resources Management, Dewitt, NY
3:00pm – 3:30pm		Popcorn Lung Litigation: Past, Present and Future Daniel K. Cray, Esq. & Scott D. Pfeiffer, Esq., Cray Huber Horstman Heil & VanAusdal LLC, Chicago, IL
3:30pm – 3:45pm		***Networking Break with Refreshments***
3:45pm – 4:15pm		Coming Back Home to Hinkley, CA and the Ghosts of Erin Brockovich Peter Garchie, Esq., Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, San Diego, CA
4:15pm – 4:45pm		Underwriting Nanotechnology Risk, It’s Not “…The Next Asbestos.” Ronald Robinson, Esq. & Carmen Santana, Esq., Berkes, Crane, Robinson & Seal, LLC, Los Angeles, CA
4:45pm – 5:15pm		Risk Assessment and Water Contamination George Pavarini, Sr. Vice President, Swiss Re, Armonk, NY Gregory Kelder, Vice President, Resolute Management, Philadelphia, PA
6:30pm – 8:30pm		EECMA Networking Dinner on Sunset Beach Compliments of Our Sponsors
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Friday, May 13th:		General Session: Captiva West Ballroom
7:30am – 8:30am		Continental Breakfast
8:00am – 8:30am		Breakfast Presentation: Keeping the Lights On: Evolving Energy Trends and Risks George Rusk, Esq., Ecology & Environment, Lancaster, NY
8:30am – 9:15am		Using Social Media, Creative Investigation and Jury Profiles in Toxic Tort Litigation David M. Governo, Esq., Governo Law Firm LLC, Boston, MA John Delany, Esq., Delany & O’Brien, Philadelphia, PA
9:15am – 9:45am		Toxic Exposure Tort Claims Against the Employer- When Worker Compensation Exclusivity is Not Exclusive Richard Ranieri, Esq., Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, Murray Hills, NJ
9:45am – 10:15am		Environmental Liabilities in Bankruptcy John McMeekin II, Esq., Rawle & Henderson LLP, Philadelphia, PA
10:15am – 10:45am		Assessing the Risk of “Brown Buildings” and the Financial and Regulatory Impact of Real Estate Ownership Joseph G. Allen, Senior Scientist, Environmental Health & Engineering, Inc. (EH&E), Boston, MA
10:30am – 11:00am		***Networking Break with Refreshments***
11:00am – 11:30am		Valuing Policies for Long-Tail and Environmental Liabilities or "Dumping on Insurers - The Minnesota Landfills Case" Peter R. Kelso, Bates White LLC, Washington, D.C. Noah B. Wallace, PhD, Bates White LLC/Eyestreet Insurance Analytics, Washington, D.C. *Captiva West Ballrooom* or Subrogation Opportunities in Environmental Claims Keith W. Pokorny, Regional Vice President, EFI Global, Inc., Wilmington, MA *Sanibel Breakout Room*
11:35am – 12:05pm		Developments in Natural Resource Damages Claims: Current Federal and State Policy Initiatives and Priorities in Groundwater Contamination Steven Kunzman, Esq., DiFrancesco, Bateman, Coley, Yospin, Kunzman, Davis & Lehrer, P.C., Warren, N.J. Captiva West Ballroom or “It Ain’t Easy Being Green: Green Construction and Insurance Implications” Brian Margolies, Esq., Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP, Hawthorne, NY *Sanibel Breakout Room*
12:10pm – 12:40pm		Practical Suggestions for Complying With the New Medicare/Medicaid Reporting Requirements Brian A Bender, Esq., Harris Beach PLLC, New York, NY Robert T. Lewis, Esq., Crowe Paradis Services Corporation, North Reading, MA *Captiva West Ballroom* or Understanding UST Systems to Better Evaluate Risks Christopher Morley, VERTEX Environmental Insurance Services, Inc., Weymouth, MA *Sanibel Breakout Room*
12:45pm – 1:15pm		FRAC or Fake: The Natural Gas Drilling Contamination Controversy Phillip R. Watters & Kieran Purcell, Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc., Houston, TX *Captiva West Ballroom*
1:15pm – 1:30pm		EECMA Wrap-Up, Raffle Drawings, Business Meeting & Farewell *Captiva West Ballroom*
Thank you for coming! We hope to see everyone next year. Please submit topic proposals for next year by November 4, 2011
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