RISKWORLD 2025

Kelly Koss, Kenneth Gorenberg and Kelsey Dilday Miller will be speaking at RISKWORLD 2025 in Chicago. This year’s conference is part of a year-long 75th anniversary celebration of RIMS and is the largest and most comprehensive event in risk management helping attendees advance their career through networking events, top-tier educational programming, and resources to navigate the evolving risk landscape.

Into the Great Unknown: AI and the New Frontier of Bad Faith in Claims Handling
May 5, 1:30 p.m.-2 p.m. (Central)

Koss’s session will explore the risks of AI integration in claims processing, including fairness, transparency and data security. Koss will highlight key questions for selecting coverage, AI's impact on policy terms, and its effects on legal disputes, bad faith claims, and discovery. She will also discuss the need for evolving insurance regulations and best practices for AI implementation, focusing on compliance, ethics, and efficiency.

Taking Additional Insured Coverage to the Next Level: Primary and Noncontributory Endorsements in Excess and Umbrella Policies
May 7, 10:10 a.m.-10:40 a.m. (Central)

Gorenberg will cover roles in preventing negative consequences for contract parties and risk transfer and explore critical contractual provisions requiring primary and noncontributory additional insured coverage, review common endorsements from CGL insurers, and assess whether excess and umbrella policies meet coverage needs. Gorenberg will also explain how to specify primary and noncontributory coverage in contracts for effective risk transfer.

Defense Can Lead to Offense! Inspiration from the Professional Sports Industry for Coverages and Risk Mitigation
May 7, 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. (Central)

Dilday Miller’s session will explore how the sports industry handles risks like copyright claims, cyber attacks, event cancellations, and property damage, and discuss alternative risk mitigation strategies for complex or costly coverage. Attendees will learn from major events like the Super Bowl, Indianapolis 500, and sold-out Taylor Swift concerts to adapt each organization’s risk management needs.