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Stay on top of your game with Reeves Richarz
20-Minute Webinar Series
Wednesdays at 10:30
Registration is free
These 15-minute webinars will help you deal with the competing demands of staying on top of your files while keeping informed about issues that claims professionals have to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Webinars are delivered via a secure Vimeo Live stream or via a call-in Conference call.
Join us for our no-cost, claims-professional-focused Webinar series offered Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. Each session will provide a narrow focus on a specific topic of interest. When an important case is released, we will deal with it but we will typically be dealing with routine issues that are faced every day by claims professionals. We aim to provide our audience with a Goldilocks sessions every week – not too much and not too little but just enough content to assist with file-handling challenges while allowing you to get on with your day.
Property and Subrogation Sessions
October 15, 2025
10:30 am
Doing the Bloodhound Work – How to Set Yourself Up For Success in Subrogation
Identifying and pursuing subrogation opportunities can be an important source of recovery for insurers. Building a file for a successful recovery starts on day 1 after a loss and involves a multi-disciplinary approach. Doing the bloodhound work early and thoroughly will get you to the finish line faster with a higher success rate. It never hurts to revisit first principles, which we will do in this session.
SABS and Bodily Injury Claims
November 19, 2025
10:30 am
PJI and the Exercise of Judicial Discretion
We are accustomed to applying a set interest rate when determining the settlement value of a claim. All that certainty can disappear at trial. We will explore the recent case of Aubin v. Zweig which provides a cautionary tale.
October 22, 2025
10:30 am
Tactical Decision Making in Pursuing Subrogation Claims
Once you have a subro recovery in your sights, how do you best manage all of the different stakeholders that you are dealing with – your insured, your expert, the target and the target insurer? Sometimes insurers get over their skis, trying to settle a case early and surrendering a lot of the leverage that they may otherwise have. Tactical questions abound! We will answer them.
October 29, 2025
10:30 am
Experts Part 1: The ABC’s of Managing Your Experts
We will live in a world of experts. The litigation process almost always demands that we utilize experts to support our cases. Whether you are defending a bodily injury claim or prosecuting a subrogated claim, you need to know how to manage your experts. Join us as we discuss approaches to selecting, instructing and preparing experts in your cases.
November 12, 2025
10:30 am
Experts Part 2: Keeping Your Experts Running on time
Almost as important as selecting the right expert is when you pull the trigger on that decision. The Rules stipulate timelines for doing that, and parties don’t always meet those deadlines. The courts have become stricter in enforcing these timelines, and we will review some recent decisions that provide insight into the courts’ evolving approach.
November 26, 2025
10:30 am
Costs and the Exercise of Judicial Discretion
Costs are at the discretion of the trial judge and can be a significant factor in assessing the risk of proceeding to trial. There are a number of decisions recently where that discretion has been exercised in surprising and unexpected ways. Join us as we explore the cost risk faced by insurers and drill down on the Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Barry v Anantharajah.
December 3, 2025
10:30 am
Are you Dealing with a Marked Insured?
When the SABS ‘tightened’ the CAT definition to require 3 marked impairments for a Class 8 Marked Impairment, there was a general sense that CAT applications under this criteria would reduce. Empirical evidence suggests that is not the case. We will look at some recent decisions dealing with this tricky issue.
December 10, 2025
10:30 am
Who Knew that Uber Created Risks for Adjusters Dealing with Priority Claims?
With the advent of ride share and insuring programs to facilitate their operation, a new degree of uncertainty and risk has been introduced into the world of loss transfer and priority dispute. There are a lot of issues to digest and we will do just that.
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