Speakers

Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote attorney Charles E. Haddick Jr. is a speaker on episode 137 of “Updates in Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith,” A.M. Best’s insurance law podcast. A.M. Best Co. Inc.’s monthly podcast airs on the Legal Talk Network. Haddick’s episode focuses on recent national trends in bad faith insurance coverage law, including artificial intelligence and the opioid epidemic. Haddick is a shareholder of Dickie McCamey and is the location chair of the Harrisburg office. He has practiced law for almost 30 years. He concentrates his practice in the areas of insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation; insurance fraud, arson, fire and explosion cases; cybersecurity and cyber insurance coverage and litigation; professional liability including insurance agency errors and omissions; subrogation; and general liability defense.

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On April 14, Blank Rome partner Chuck Marion was a speaker on attorney Tracy L. Henderson’s “Hot Topics on the Law” radio show. The episode focused on the topic, “Website Compliance With the Americans With Disabilities Act,” where Marion discussed the rise of website accessibility lawsuits, elaborated on recent rulings in this area, and shared preventative measures business owners can take to ensure people with disabilities have equal access to consumer-facing content. Marion primarily focuses his practice in the areas of complex business litigation, intellectual property litigation, franchise litigation, securities litigation and products liability.

Events

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young hosted the Philadelphia Regional Conference of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution on April 10 in Philadelphia. Stradley Ronon senior counsel Bennett G. Picker served as conference chair. The program was titled, “The Role of the Client and Counsel in Mediation.” The four-hour conference included mediation training, a corporate counsel panel on best mediation advocacy practices, and a discussion on diversity and inclusion initiatives led by Judge Timothy K. Lewis and Picker. Picker, a full-time mediator and arbitrator, has spent more than three decades dedicating himself to promoting and improving the field of ADR across the nation and throughout the world.

Elected and Appointed

Eleven lawyers are newly certified by the Pennsylvania Bar Association workers’ compensation law section as specialists in the practice of workers’ compensation law. They comprise the fourth group of lawyers to have successfully completed the workers’ compensation certification process and join 199 additional lawyers currently holding certification. For a complete list of certified workers’ compensation specialists, visit here. Certified applicants are permitted to use the following language when communicating their certifications to the public: “Certified as a specialist in the practice of Workers’ Compensation Law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.” A lawyer successfully completing the exam is certified for five years. Below are the names of the lawyers who have successfully completed the 2018 certification process: • John Belak, Ryan Carroll, Phillip Kondrot, Dennis Liotta, Walter F. Lober III, James A. Garver and Tracy Myers-Dumm of Edgar Snyder & Associates. • Handler Henning & Rosenberg’s J. Jeffrey Watson. • Kevin E. Harchar and Christopher C. Cara of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano. • Denise E. Elliott of McNees Wallace & Nurick.