Insurance (Oct. 30, 2025)
Recorded On: 10/30/2025
- Registration Closed
The fourth installment of the 2025 Contracts Masterclass series will explore the critical and complex intersection of insurance coverage and contract law. This one-hour session will teach best practices for using contractual provisions, insurance, and indemnification to maximize assets and further a policyholder’s financial and business interests.
The presenters will then delve deep into key considerations for managing claims, collaborating with brokers, and effectively utilizing outside counsel for insurance matters.
Whether dealing with a denied claim, partnering with an insurer to resolve a matter in the policyholder’s best interests, or renewing coverage, participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to leverage insurance coverage as a strategic asset in corporate governance.
Generously sponsored by Blank Rome
This live program offers free CLE in select jurisdictions for members of ACC. Please see details below!
CLE/CPD CREDIT IS AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:
*Alaska, *Arizona, California, *Connecticut, Georgia, *Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, *Montana, *New Hampshire, *New Jersey, *New York, *North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania,Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
*Indicates that CLE/CPD credit is available by virtue of reciprocity with another jurisdiction.
ACC WILL MAKE AN APPLICATION FOR CLE UPON REQUEST IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:
Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Vermont.
Requests must be made one week prior to the scheduled program date to ensure timely application submission. Please use the form below to submit your request for CLE.
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ATTENDEES MUST SELF-FILE IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS (A CERTIFICATE WILL BE PROVIDED TO ASSIST YOUR FILING EFFORTS):
Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
CLE/CPD IS NOT MANDATORY IN THE FOLLOWING JURISDICTIONS:
District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, South Dakota
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LockedJohn 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.
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.
