PHILADELPHIA – Stradley Ronon Senior Counsel Samuel J. Arena, Jr. served as the moderator for a panel titled “The Sky Did Not Fall―But The Jury Is Still Out…The Influence of the Restatements in the Courts and State Legislatures” at the American College of Coverage Counsel’s 2023 Insurance Law Symposium.
The panel discussed the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance and how it has influenced the courts and state legislatures in the four years since it was published in 2019. Arena’s panel also discussed Section 20A of the ALI’s emerging Restatement of the Law (Third), Torts, which addresses first-party insurance bad faith and other select insurance issues from the perspectives of policyholder counsel and insurance company counsel.
Arena has concentrated his practice on insurance law and fidelity and surety law for over 40 years and has represented insurance companies nationally in complex insurance coverage, extra-contractual liability, and fidelity and surety matters. He is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law.
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