Robert B. Hille, a partner in the firm’s Healthcare and Litigation Practices, will be a panelist for the presentation “Am I Covered? – Understanding Your Professional Liability Policy and Trending Claims” at the New Jersey State Bar Association’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Convention. The program is scheduled for Thursday, May 15 from 8:45am – 10:00am at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.
This seminar promises to reach a broad range of interested people, including: managing partners and/or other attorneys responsible for securing and/or renewing legal malpractice insurance and informing the carrier of potential claims and who need to know whether certain acts or omissions are covered under the firm’s professional liability policy; new and experienced attorneys who need to learn when to advise of a potential claim; and non-attorneys within law firms responsible for securing and/or renewing insurance policies and/or reporting claims. This seminar will provide an understanding of professional liability coverage for attorneys and law firms, including scope of coverage, what may be a claim, claims-made policies, responsibilities for providing notice, and the significance of the timing of reporting a claim. Next, the panelists will delve into several real life, “trending” scenarios or hypotheticals and discuss whether coverage would be provided under a legal malpractice or other type of policy. The topics to be discussed include the following: whether acts or omissions of non-lawyers, including paralegals and legal assistants, are covered; cyber risks and exposures (to self, firm, clients, third parties, and vendor risk considerations), and artificial intelligence risks and exposures, as well as ethical implications.
Bob is a past President of the NJSBA. He focuses his practice in litigation, with a particular emphasis on trial advocacy. His areas of concentration include insurance, healthcare law, professional liability and ethics, and white-collar criminal matters, including those related to professional ethics. He has extensive trial expertise that encompasses insurance defense and coverage cases, healthcare disputes, professional liability defense, fraud and abuse, and regulatory issues. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney.
Information about the 2025 Annual Meeting and Convention is available on the NJSBA website.