From Contract to Claim - Ensuring Your Insurance Requirements Deliver Real Coverage (Sept. 22, 2026)
Includes a Live Web Event on 09/22/2026 at 2:00 PM (EDT)
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Are You Covered?
Too many organizations don't discover their insurance requirements have failed until a claim is already on the table — and by then, it's too late to fix a poorly drafted clause or an unverified certificate. This program is a critical checkpoint for in-house counsel who negotiate, draft, or rely on contractual insurance provisions.
You'll learn how to spot the gaps between what a contract requires and what a policy actually covers — before those gaps turn into denied claims, uncovered losses, or costly disputes. Don't wait for a loss to find out your coverage was never really there.
This session will cover:
- Drafting insurance requirement clauses that align with actual available coverage — not just aspirational language
- Evaluating certificates of insurance and policy endorsements to confirm requirements are genuinely met
- Common gaps between additional insured status, waivers of subrogation, and primary/non-contributory language — as negotiated versus as issued
- Anticipating and addressing coverage disputes at claim time, including denial, reservation of rights, and allocation issues
- Coordinating cross-functionally with risk management and brokers to keep contract terms and insurance procurement aligned over the life of an agreement
You'll walk away with:
- The ability to draft enforceable insurance clauses that hold up when a claim is filed
- A practical framework for auditing certificates of insurance and endorsements
- A sharper eye for the fine print that separates real coverage from paper promises
- Strategies for navigating coverage disputes before they derail a claim
- A stronger playbook for cross-functional collaboration with risk management and brokers
Who should attend:
- In-house counsel who negotiate or draft contractual insurance provisions
- Contract managers and risk management professionals
- Corporate counsel overseeing vendor, construction, or commercial agreements
- Anyone responsible for verifying insurance compliance across the life of a contract
Generously Sponsored by Blank Rome LLP
*Watch LIVE for CLE/CPD Credit*
This session is part of the 2026 Contracts & Negotiations Master Class Series..
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Linda Kornfeld
Partner and Co-chair, Insurance Recovery Practice
Blank Rome
Linda Kornfeld is one of the nation’s most prominent insurance recovery attorneys, representing corporate policyholders in high-stakes litigation for more than 25 years. Using strategic, creative approaches in her trial and appellate practice, Linda assists her clients in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance assets. She is a strategic adviser to senior executives and in-house counsel on mitigating risk and maximizing insurance recoveries.
John Gibbons
Partner and Co-chair, Insurance Recovery Practice
Blank Rome
John Gibbons is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice, formerly the insurance practice of Dickstein Shapiro LLP. His national practice focuses on advising corporate policyholders about their insurance policy rights and recovery insurance assets, either through negotiation or trial.
John maintains a particularly active trial practice that includes serving as trial counsel for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company in a four-month trial, a Fortune 500 regulated utility in two separate multiweek jury trials, and a large multinational engineering services corporation in a multiweek jury trial involving more than $250 million of insurance. John’s trial practice includes matters under Liability, Property, Cargo, Trade-Credit/Credit Risk, and Representation & Warranty insurance policies. In addition to his trial practice, John guides clients through the insurance claim process, negotiating favorable resolutions for his policyholder clients.
In the past decade, John has, through negotiations, litigation, and trial verdicts, enforced clients’ rights to well over a billion dollars’ worth of insurance. Recently, he has focused his attention on emerging areas of interest for policyholders, including risks attendant to international business operations, assertions of various forms of financial and property losses, liabilities for business operations and conduct, and product liability and environmental liability issues.
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