LIFE
INSURANCE LAW COMMITTEE
Upcoming Events
Click here for more information about the 35th Annual TIPS Midwinter Symposium on Life, Health & Disability Insurance, Insurance Regulation, Reinsurance and Employee Benefits sponsored by the Life Insurance Law Committee.
Past Events
34th Annual TIPS Midwinter Symposium on Insurance, Employment and Benefits
Ft. Lauderdale Grande
January, 17-20, 2008
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
EMERGING ISSUES AND LITIGATION RELATING TO LIFE, HEALTH AND DISABILITY INSURANCE, INSURANCE REGULATION,
EMPLOYMENT LAW, ERISA AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
TIPS proudly announces the 34th Annual Midwinter Meeting, the TIPS Midwinter Symposium on Insurance, Employment and
Benefits. This year’s meeting will include an outstanding program, the usual great camaraderie, and a terrific
location in Ft. Lauderdale. Please join us for CLE and networking.
This year’s program maintains the meeting’s traditional focus on issues relating to life, health and disability
insurance and ERISA, insurance regulation, employee benefits, and employment law. We believe that our program stands
out because it brings together counsel from all sides—corporate counsel, plaintiffs’ counsel, defense counsel, trade
association, and governmental and regulatory counsel—and our program will provide opportunities for discourse among
counsel with different perspectives.
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What You Need to Know - The Purchase and Sale of Insurance Companies and Agencies
ABA/TIPS Annual Meeting
Friday August 10, 2007
8:30 am - 10:00 am
San Francisco, CA
TIPS Committee main sponsor: Insurance Regulation
TIPS Committee co-sponsors: Life Insurance Law, Corporate Counsel, Health & Disability Law, Law Practice Management
Program Chair: Robert M. Ferm, Hall & Evans, LLC, Denver, CO
The program will focus on issues commonly related to the acquisition, sale or merger of insurance entities.
Panelists will address issues related to the transaction including valuation of the entity, expected due diligence,
avoidance of D&O and E&O claims, client and regulatory expectations, and ethical considerations underlying regulator
and political demands for "good corporate citizenship" as a condition of approval of the transaction.
Domestic Partner Benefits, Rights, and Responsibilities - What Every Lawyer Needs to Know
ABA/TIPS Annual Meeting
Saturday August 11, 2007
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
San Francisco, CA
TIPS Committee main sponsor: Employment Law and Litigation
TIPS Committee co-sponsors: Life Insurance Law, Employee Benefits, Corporate Counsel, Insurance Regulation, Health & Disability Law, Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Law, Self-Insurers and Risk Managers
Program Chair: Marlene K. Heyser, Workplace Law Strategies, Newport Beach, CA
The legal issues surrounding domestic partnerships and same sex marriages have become increasingly significant
and complex. The landmark decision by the Supreme judicial Court of Massachusetts in Goodridge v. Department
of Public Health, 440 Mass. 309 (2003) opened the door for same sex residents of Massachusetts to marry.
Several other states and local jurisdictions have passed legislation which recognizes domestic partners through
Civil Unions and Domestic Partner Registries. Additionally, a growing number of Fortune 500 companies now offer
health care benefits to domestic partners. While these state and local laws give numerous rights to domestic
partners, none of them confer rights to pension and related benefits regulated by federal laws. This growing
divide between federal laws, such as ERISA, and state laws granting domestic partners benefits, creates
increasing legal challenges. This expert panel of employment and employee benefit lawyers will address
these current legal issues surrounding the benefits, rights and responsibilities of domestic partners.
33rd Annual TIPS Midwinter CLE Meeting
Surf & Sand Resort
January 11-14, 2007
Laguna Beach, CA
Contact: Debra Dotson 312/988-5597
The 33rd Annual TIPS Midwinter CLE Meeting, January 11-14, 2007 is quickly approaching. This time
you can get your CLE with a bit of California sun as we go west to the Surf & Sand Resort in
Laguna Beach, CA. As usual, the Life Insurance Law Committee will serve as the host committee.
This Midwinter Meeting promises to give you more bang for your CLE buck by providing break-out
sessions in addition to the plenary programming. Topics will include class action litigation
trends, litigation trends in life insurance and annuities, ERISA interpretation around the
circuits, resolving pension plan issues, and the status of attacks on discretionary clauses;
in addition, there will be an insurance commissioner roundtable.
A limited number of hotel rooms have been blocked for this program. To book your
hotel room now at $235.00 per night, call 888/869-7569.
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Decoding ERISA and Employee Benefits: A Primer for the Non-Specialist
ABA/TIPS Annual Meeting
Friday, August 4, 2006
7:30 am – 9:00 am
Hawaii
TIPS Committee main sponsor: Health & Disability Law
TIPS Committee co-sponsors: Life Insurance Law, Corporate Counsel, Employee Benefits and
Employment Law & Litigation
Sections, Divisions, Forums, Special Standing Committees and Commissions
co-sponsors: Labor and Employment Law Section
Program Chair: Russell Buhite, Fowler White Boggs Banker PA,Tampa, FL
This three-part program will tackle the current issues facing non-specialists in the ERISA and Employee-
Benefits fields.
Our seasoned experts will guide you through the basics of ERISA preemption in federal courts. Discover
whether claims for insurance bad faith, unfair trade practices, promissory estoppel and other third-party
claims are preempted under the current laws and what the future may hold in terms of preemption.
It’s Not Elementary, My Dear Watson:
Undercover Investigations,
Attorney/Client Privilege, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues
ABA/TIPS Annual Meeting
Sunday, August 6, 2006
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Hawaii
TIPS Committee main sponsor: Insurance Regulation
TIPS Committee co-sponsors: Intellectual Property Law, Business Litigation, Corporate
Counsel, Life Insurance and Employment Law and Litigation
Sections, Divisions, Forums, Special Standing Committees and Commissions
Co-sponsors: Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, Administrative Law
and Regulatory Practice Section, Intellectual Property Law Section and Center for
Professional Responsibility
Program Chair: John A. Knapp,Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., Minneapolis, MN
Are undercover investigations by lawyers ethically permissible? How does attorney/client privilege
apply to fact investigations? Can ex parte communications be used in investigations? Our
expert panelists, including a regulatory litigator,Assistant U.S.Attorney, former government regulator
and a trial lawyer, will tackle these questions and delve into recent developments in the
law and the legal ethics that shape how government, regulatory, and trial lawyers conduct fact
investigations. Learn how to effectively respond to investigations from panelists that conduct
investigations for their clients and those that represent parties responding to investigations.
ABA Midyear Meeting
Hyatt Regency
February 8-13 2006
Chicago, IL
Contact: Felisha A. Stewart 312/988-5672
ABA MidYear Information
TIPS MidYear Information
TIPS Midyear CLE Information
Tips Midyear Ticket Order Form
TIPS MidYear Flyer
Emerging Issues and
Practice Developments in
Life, Health and Disability
Insurance, ERISA and
Employment Law
The Sonesta Beach Resort
January 12-15, 2006
Key Biscayne, Florida
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Top-notch CLE programs, great location, warm weather, and opportunities for networking to
boot. All that and more awaits you as the 32nd Annual Midwinter Meeting returns to Key
Biscayne, Florida, from January 12-15, 2006. For those who have attended in the past, you
know the value and the benefits attending this program brings to your practice and professional
development. For those of you who have not attended the Midwinter Meeting before,
please consider it this year.
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For enrollment in a committee of the Tort Trial & Insurance
Practice Section, simply fill out the on-line committee
application form.
Please note: If you are already a Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section member, you may join up to three (3) committees at no
additional cost. However, if you are not a Section member, you must join the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section first.
If you have any questions regarding
participation in TIPS Committees, please contact Sonia Schroeder, our Committees
Administrator at schroeders@staff.abanet.org or
by phone at 312/988-6229.
