McGuireWoods is hosting "Preparing on All Fronts for a Catastrophic Event," a seminar focused on crisis response, insurance recovery, and crisis communications. Originally scheduled for November 2, 2023, the event has been rescheduled to early 2024 and will take place at McGuireWoods' New York office.
The seminar will cover essential components of confidential incident investigations, corporate communications and board engagement post-crisis, time-sensitive insurance policy conditions, key property and business interruption coverages, and public relations aspects of incident management.
Featured speakers include Daniel Kaniewski, Managing Director, Public Sector at Marsh McLennan; Brian Dunagan, Managing Consultant with IFO Group; and Kendell Fitter, head of the crisis practice at H/Advisors Abernathy.
This event is designed for business owners, investors, corporate attorneys, compliance experts, and external legal counsel seeking to enhance their preparedness for significant accidents and emergencies.
Speakers(6)
Adam G. Sowatzka
Partner at McGuireWoods
Adam G. Sowatzka is a partner at McGuireWoods, specializing in environmental litigation and regulatory enforcement. A former EPA enforcement attorney, he brings over 25 years of experience handling crisis management, major environmental incident response, and civil and criminal investigations and enforcement matters spanning all areas of environmental media, including air, water, and waste.
Anthony P. Tatum
Partner at McGuireWoods
Anthony P. Tatum is a partner at McGuireWoods, focusing on insurance recovery. He has extensive experience representing corporate policyholders in insurance matters of all kinds, helping them obtain best-in-class coverages and maximize their insurance recoveries. Tatum has litigated first- and third-party claims and matters involving captives, reinsurance, and self-insurance.
Brian Dunagan
Managing Consultant at IFO Group
Brian Dunagan is a managing consultant with IFO Group. He has extensive U.S. and international experience as a recognized expert in process safety and occupational safety, with a large number of successful projects in the energy, paper and pulp, chemical, refining, heavy manufacturing and EPC industries. In addition, Dunagan has a successful record of leading and managing very high-profile/high-value loss incident investigations involving process-related explosions and fires, occupational injuries and fatalities, equipment failures, human factors/errors and engineering failures. A significant part of his litigation support practice concerns incidents involving loss of life and major disabling injury.
Daniel Kaniewski
Managing Director, Public Sector at Marsh McLennan
Daniel Kaniewski is Managing Director, Public Sector at Marsh McLennan, where he advances the firm's priorities with all levels of government, develops innovative solutions to public sector challenges, and engages 85,000 experts in risk, strategy, and people. From 2017-2020, Dr. Kaniewski was the second-ranking official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). As the agency's first Deputy Administrator for Resilience, he launched and led the disaster resilience programs that are now a cornerstone of FEMA's mission. Earlier, Dr. Kaniewski was Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Senior Director for Response Policy in the George W. Bush Administration, where he managed over 200 Presidential disaster declarations at the White House.
J. Brian Jackson
Partner at McGuireWoods
J. Brian Jackson is a partner at McGuireWoods, where he leads the firm's Crisis Management & Incident Response Practice Group. He has extensive experience guiding corporations through crises, including catastrophic incidents in industries such as manufacturing, transportation, pipelines, oil and gas, renewable energy, electric and natural gas utilities, and mining.
Kendell Fitter
Head of Crisis Practice at H/Advisors Abernathy
Kendell Fitter is head of the crisis practice at H/Advisors Abernathy. Kendell's specialty is guiding her clients through high-stakes crisis situations with minimal reputational damage, maximum business continuity and optimized outcomes for all stakeholders. Her crisis management experience spans a broad range of complex issues including cybersecurity, investigations, employee activism, pandemic response, social issues, workplace misconduct, product recalls, physical disasters, regulatory matters and other special situations. Kendell counsels her clients through all phases of crisis preparedness and response and is a frequent speaker on crisis management throughout the United States.
Event Details
- Date
- November 15, 2023
- Location
- 🇺🇸 New York, United States
- McGuireWoods, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor
- Audience
- Business owners, investors, corporate attorneys, compliance experts, external legal counsel