L.A. Construction Defect Conference Features Judges, Builders, Insurers Nov. 19

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Superior Court Judges Hon. Keith Davis of San Bernardino and Hon. Stephen Sundvold of Orange County will appear on the faculty of the "Construction Defect Litigation Update Conference" Nov. 19, 2009 at The City Club on Bunker Hill in Los Angeles.

The chairmen of the conference, attorneys Richard Glucksman of Chapman, Glucksman, Dean, Roeb & Barger, APC of Los Angeles, and Kenneth Kasdan, Kasdan Simonds Riley & Vaughan LLP of Irvine, Calif. and Phoenix, Ariz., assembled a list of specialists from the building and insurance industries, as well as from leading law firms.

In a review of headlines posted recently by "Mealey's Litigation Report: Construction Defects," a leading monitor of the litigation published by LexisNexis, California cases have produced settlements in matters involving subcontractors for $15,000 in one case and $16,500 in another, while other cases with a broader range of parties settled for $55,000, $525,000, $632,305, and $1.3 million.

The conference provider, HB Litigation Conferences LLC, is offering complimentary registrations to a limited number of in-house counsel, recognizing the year's tighter corporate budgets.

Topics include: emerging insurance market and new products; key insurance coverage issues; unique subcontractor matters; foreclosures, lender liability, bankruptcy and insolvency; litigation update; right to repair statutes; trials and mediation in a challenging economic world; competing perspectives in tough economic times (featuring an in-house roundtable); Chinese drywall; EFIS; and other advanced topics.

Speakers include counsel from the California Building Industry Association, HDI-Gerling America Insurance Co., XL Insurance, Willis Insurance Services, JPM Asset Management Corp., D.R. Horton Inc., and ACE USA. In addition to judges Davis and Sundvold, Gerald Kurland and Bruce Edwards of JAMS and Arizona Judge Hon. Pendleton Gaines will participate.

For more information about the Construction Defect Litigation Update Conference or webcast, contact HB Litigation Conferences by phone at (484) 324-2755, by email at info@LitigationConferences.com, or by visiting the conferences section at HB's website at www.LitigationConferences.com.

HB Litigation Conferences is a nationally certified provider of continuing legal education conferences, webinars, teleconferences and multi-media products in the areas of insurance, reinsurance, toxic torts, asbestos, construction, products and financial litigation. Tom Hagy, HB's CEO, is former publisher of Mealey Publication and vice president at LexisNexis. Sharon Boothe, HB's president, is former director of Mealey's Conferences and director at LexisNexis.

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