Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts' DOmain

Professional Liability Underwriting Society

Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts’ DOmain is a podcast series featuring unique conversations with leaders and expert thinkers on business issues that intersect with D&O insurance. Each episode explores a focused topic offering fresh perspectives on risk, coverage, and claims. Designed for everyone who touches D&O insurance — from underwriters and claims professionals to directors, brokers, and lawyers — this podcast delivers insights that matter across the field. Whether new to D&O or highly experienced, listeners will be exposed to novel ideas and perspectives that deepen their understanding of the complex D&O landscape.

Episodes

  1. Aug 13

    Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts’ DOmain - Episode 2

    Defense costs in securities litigation and other matters are skyrocketing.  This affects both the D&O policy’s cost and the ultimate availability of its limit of liability to settle cases on behalf of individuals and entities.  In this episode, Justin Kudler, Senior Vice President and Senior Claims Counsel at ARC Excess & Surplus, LLC – a CRC Group Company and Doug Greene, who leads BakerHostetler’s firmwide Securities and Governance Litigation team, discuss several factors encouraging increasing defense costs, as well as potential solutions.

  2. Jun 8

    Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts’ DOmain - Episode 1

    Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts’ DOmain is a podcast series featuring unique conversations with leaders and expert thinkers on business issues that intersect with D&O insurance. Each episode explores a focused topic offering fresh perspectives on risk, coverage, and claims. Designed for everyone who touches D&O insurance — from underwriters and claims professionals to directors, brokers, and lawyers — this podcast delivers insights that matter across the field. Whether new to D&O or highly experienced, listeners will be exposed to novel ideas and perspectives that deepen their understanding of the complex D&O landscape. In this premiere episode, host Justin Kudler, Senior Vice President and Senior Claims Counsel at Arc Excess and Surplus, LLC, is joined by Jeff Kichaven, Principal Mediator at Jeff Kichaven Commercial Mediation, for an in-depth discussion about D&O mediation. Together, they examine the processes, strategies, and decision-making dynamics that shape the resolution of complex claims, offering listeners valuable insight into how D&O disputes are negotiated and ultimately settled.

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Expanding D&O Knowledge: The Experts’ DOmain is a podcast series featuring unique conversations with leaders and expert thinkers on business issues that intersect with D&O insurance. Each episode explores a focused topic offering fresh perspectives on risk, coverage, and claims. Designed for everyone who touches D&O insurance — from underwriters and claims professionals to directors, brokers, and lawyers — this podcast delivers insights that matter across the field. Whether new to D&O or highly experienced, listeners will be exposed to novel ideas and perspectives that deepen their understanding of the complex D&O landscape.

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