Plenary 1
The Hurricane is Coming in Five Days – What’s a Lawyer to Do?
Jimmy L. Morales, City of Miami Beach | Miami Beach, FL
Luis Prats, Carlton Fields | Tampa, FL
Michael Stephens, Hillsborough County Aviation Authority | Tampa, FL
April 15, 2019 Dealing With Natural Disasters: Here Comes The Flood (Of Legal Issues)
2019 Annual Meeting
April 24-27, 2019 | The Diplomat Beach Resort | Hollywood, FL
Plenary 2
It’s All About the Insurance
Timothy P. Kraft, Warrior Consulting Ventures | Sarasota, FL
Charles E. Comiskey, RiskTech, Inc. | Houston, TX
Amanda K. Anderson, Boyle & Leonard, P.A. | Tampa, FL
Workshop A
A Closer Look at Insurance Issues Following a Natural Disaster
Philip C. Silverberg, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP | New York, NY
Philip J. Truax, Wickens Herzer Panza Co. | Cleveland, OH
Workshop B
Environmental Issues Following a Natural Disaster
Tracey D. Dodd, J.S. Held LLC | New Orleans, LA
Dorsey R. Carson, Jr., Carson Law Group | Jackson, MS
Plenary 3
Key Contract Provisions When a Natural Disaster Strikes
Jeffrey R. Appelbaum, Thompson Hine | Cleveland, OH
Nathan C. Gould, ABS Group | St. Louis, MO
Plenary 4
A Discussion on Post-Catastrophe Issues
Moderator: Jamie S. Peterson, HNTB | Oakland, CA
John Abruzzo, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. | San Francisco, CA
Charles F. Boland, PE, GREYHAWK, North America, LLC | Mount Laurel, NJ
Roberto Hernández García, COMAD, S.C. | Mexico City, Mexico
Plenary 5
FEMA 101: What Construction Contractors and Project Owners Need to Know
Ernest B. Abbott, Baker Donelson | Washington, DC
Mary Ellen Martinet, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) | Washington, DC
Plenary 6
Post-Disaster Labor Force Issues
Anthony Gonzales, Spire Consulting Group, LLC | Austin, TX
Jodi Taylor, Brasfield & Gorrie, LLC | Atlanta, GA
Plenary 7
The Things I Wish I Had Known Before the Disaster
William R. Broz, P.E., Exponent | Los Angeles, CA
Tina Cydzik, P.E., LEED AP, Engineering Systems, Inc. (ESi) | Irvine, CA
Daniel R. Wireman, Cleveland Construction, Inc. | Naples, FL
Plenary 8
The Potentially Catastrophic Design Error and the Ethical Response
Eileen M. Diepenbrock, Diepenbrock Elkin Gleason LLP | Sacramento, CA
Mark J. Heley, Heley, Duncan & Melander, PLLP | Minneapolis, MN
Michael S. Zetlin, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP | New York, NY
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