"Hidden Risks and Unforeseen Hazards"

What risk management professionals need
to know about emerging environmental liability

A Business Insurance custom webinar, presented by:



Live online: April 15, 2009; 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific

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Today's environmental risks are real, growing and often unseen. The new regulatory landscape is having a profound impact on U.S. businesses, particularly those that may not realize they have environmental or pollution exposure.

Consider recent news from Washington that the E.P.A is expected to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases scientists blame for global warming. Such regulation has serious implications for transportation, manufacturing and utilities. In California, the state legislature is considering a bill to require schools to monitor indoor air quality to help prevent public health ailments such as asthma.

Are you protected? Did you know many commercial general liability policies contain exclusions or are simply are not designed to provide coverage to organizations for these emerging environmental exposures?

Join a panel of risk management professionals as we discuss this changing landscape of environmental liability, including emerging pollution and environmental exposures. Our panel of experts will talk about the latest regulatory and litigation trends that are requiring the insurance community, including insureds, insurers and brokers, to rethink strategies to protect against enterprise-wide liability.

PANELISTS:

• Michele Schroeder, Zurich NA
  

  Michele Schroeder is Assistant Vice President and Counsel for Zurich Commercial Markets - Environmental. She is responsible for the development and application of risk management methods including risk, claim and liability analysis, risk forecasting, thought leadership, the tracking of emerging risk and the development and application of underwriting guidelines across all lines of business. Ms. Schroeder is an attorney licensed to practice law in the states of New York and Connecticut, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She came to Zurich from private practice in Washington, D.C., and New York where she participated in the defense of general litigation including construction and superfund cases in state and federal court. Ms. Schroeder holds a bachelors degree in environmental studies from Binghamton University. She received her Masters in Environmental Law and a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School.





• Julie Dunai, Zurich NA
  

  Julie W. Dunai, senior vp-Environmental, is the leader of Zurich North America's Environmental business unit. The unit delivers insurance solutions that address professional liability or environmental risk. Target markets include environmental service firms, architects, engineers, and a wide variety of businesses facing environmental or professional liability risks. Ms. Dunai joined Zurich in 1997, establishing the product development practice within Zurich Environmental. Ms. Dunai has twenty years of experience in the insurance industry. Prior to joining Zurich, she held positions as an environmental liability underwriter and sales executive for a wholesale insurance broker. Prior to the insurance industry Ms. Dunai was a soil scientist working on USDA soil mapping, conservation projects and urban development. Ms. Dunai holds a degree in geology and soil science.





• William F. Brumund, Golder Associates Corp.
  

  William F. Brumund is a principal of Golder Associates Corp., an international environenmental services and ground engineering firm with more than 7,000 employees in 30 countries. He served as the CEO of Golder Associates from 1985 to 1996 and was on its Board of Directors for 33 years. Dr. Brumund also helped establish the company's Risk Committee. He has worked on projects in all parts of the world, including in the mining industry, on heavy civil projects, dams, and in the siting and design of municipal and hazardous waste landfills. He has been involved in environmental clean-up work in various parts of the world and has developed financial risk assessment models for environmental remediation projects and for due diligence studies. Dr. Brumund attended Purdue University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering , a master of science degree in geotechnical engineering and his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering. He served as a professior in Georgia Tech's civil engineering department until 1975.





• Sheryl Marzzarella, Golder Associates Corp.
  

  Sheryl Marzzarella is a Principal and General Counsel of Golder Associates Corp. She joined Golder Associates in 1987 and has served as General Counsel since 1992. She leads Golder's Global Legal Team and is a member of the company's EHL Board of Directors' Risk, Health and Safety Committee. In both roles she has responsibility for overseeing risk and legal issues for the Golder group of companies. Ms. Marzzarella received both her B.S. and J.D. Degrees from Brigham Young University.





• Dayna Carney, Wachovia Insurance Services
  

  Dayna Carney is a Senior Vice President based in the Atlanta office of Wachovia Insurance Services, A Wells Fargo Company. From 1983 to October of 1997, prior to joining Wachovia, Ms. Carney held Senior Vice President and business development positions with both Sedgwick and Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Ms. Carney spends 100% of her time consulting with a diverse group of publicly traded and large privately held companies assisting them in the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex risk management programs involving the full spectrum of insurance and alternative risk solutions on a global basis. Her clientele covers a broad range of industry groups including real estate, technology, architects & engineers, and hospitality. She holds a bachelor of science degree from Nova University and the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation.




This event will be moderated by Business Insurance Editor Regis Coccia,
with interactive Q&A from the live audience.










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