ACCC 2025 Annual Insurance Law Symposium
55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CTCo-Chairs: Tracy Alan Saxe (Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C.) & Stephen E. Goldman (Robinson & Cole LLP)
The American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC) will host its 11th Annual Insurance Law Symposium in Hartford, CT — and we invite you to participate under the leadership of distinguished co-chairs Tracy Saxe and Stephen Goldman.
This full-day, in-person program at UConn Law’s Starr Hall will explore cutting-edge issues in insurance coverage, with a focus on “Insurance Coverage for Mass Disasters with a Focus on Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance.”
Property Loss and Business Interruption Claims Arising out of Catastrophes
Nov. 7, 2025 – 8:45 AM – 9:45 AM (EST)
Theresa A. Guertin, Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C.
Stephen E. Goldman, Robinson & Cole LLP
Stephen Pate, Cozen O’Connor (Moderator)
This panel will review the basic property loss and business interruption coverages, review how they have been applied in past catastrophes, and discuss how these coverages and the legal precedent they have spawned could become the subject of coverage disputes in the event of a cyber catastrophe.
What a Disaster!: Ethical Obligations of Attorneys in the Wake of Natural Disasters, Cyber Threats, and Other Perils
Nov. 7, 2025 – 2:25 PM – 3:35 PM (EST)
Tracy Alan Saxe, Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. (Moderator)
John Bonnie, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Sherilyn Pastor, McCarter & English
Lawyers are important providers of legal services when natural disasters and other perils wreak havoc on the lives of individuals and their communities. But lawyers can just as easily be harmed by the same unfortunate events. This panel will examine the lawyer as victim of a disaster event, facing not just the expected personal challenges and consequences, but also having to meet ongoing ethical obligations to clients, the courts and the profession. We will discuss the Model Rules of Professional Conduct applicable even in the worst of times, and survey the case law involving lawyer conduct in the wake of disaster-level events that resulted in disciplinary actions by ethics regulators.