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NEW CLASS! This half-day course will explore key concepts of environmental insurance and how to leverage it as a powerful tool for risk mitigation.
The Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast (BCONE) is co-hosting this course with the Rutgers Office of Continuing Professional Education.
From environmental insurance history to the current market trend and emerging contaminants, this course will provide key concepts to better understand environmental insurance and use it as a risk mitigation tool.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in improving their understanding of environmental insurance can benefit from attending this course.
- Risk Managers
- Environmental Consultants
- Environmental Attorneys
- Transactional Real Estate Professionals
- Insurance Professionals
Meet Your Faculty Coordinator
Sandra Gaurin, ERM, LEED AP, President of ENG Advisors LLC
Ms. Gaurin has 25 years of experience assisting real estate, development and institutional clients in managing their environmental risk with a focus on loss control services and environmental claims support. Ms. Gaurin currently serves as the President of ENG Advisors LLC, an environmental guidance company supporting insurance, real estate and legal industry. Her everyday duties include national insurance carriers’ accounts management, client services for large remediation/redevelopment projects, marketing and BD support in the real estate, construction and remediation fields. Ms. Gaurin has established an expansive network throughout the insurance industry, real estate and construction as well as law firms over the last 20 plus years. Following technical risk quantification, Ms. Gaurin facilitates the implementation of state of the art and unique environmental risk transfer mechanisms, using insurance and GMP contracting to mitigate or eliminate the developers, Owners or lenders environmental risk.
Additional Speakers
Chris Alviggi, Managing Director, Environmental – Practice Leader
Chris has more than 20 years of accretive experience, primarily focused on environmental liabilities and other tort liability, and has recently joined NFP to lead our Environmental Practice Group. Chris has demonstrated success in designing, implementing, and monitoring customized environmental insurance programs for the most challenging of beneficial reuse sites, including but not limited to the former Citizens Energy Coke Plant to the new Criminal Justice Center. Chris works closely with clients, outside counsel, and remediation contractors to provide the broadest possible terms available in today’s environmental insurance marketplace. Furthermore, Chris’ experience traverses numerous industry groups, which affords him the unique ability to help his clients develop appropriate insurance hedging strategies aimed to mitigate clients risk of environmental loss which are encountered during the normal course of business. Chris earned a bachelor’s in business administration from the College of Insurance, and he holds an MBA in global insurance from The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University.
Richard Crooker, General Counsel, Advance Realty Investor
As General Counsel for Advance Realty Investors, Richard Crooker addresses and manages the company’s legal affairs, including outside counsel. Advance benefits from Richard’s 3 decades of broad transactional and dispute resolution legal experience. His expertise includes representation of clients in arbitration, federal and state litigation, brownfield transactions, insurance policy drafting and coverage, real property leasing, technology and energy.
Prior to joining Advance Realty, Richard was a partner in two law firms. He concurrently served as a general counsel for a brownfield advisory and redevelopment company. He is a founding member of the Garibaldi Alternative Dispute Resolution Inn of Court, and the Pollack Environmental Inn of Court. Richard holds a BA in government from the University of Notre Dame, and a JD from Rutgers University. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association.
Noelle MacDonald, SVP, Underwriter, Mosaic Insurance
Noelle underwrites environmental liability risk at Mosaic. Graduating with a J.D. and Advanced Certificate in Environmental Law from Pace School of Law and barred in NY and NJ, Noelle started her environmental insurance career handling environmental claims at ACE Group (now CHUBB). She transitioned to environmental underwriting at ACE and continued underwriting at AXA XL and Ironshore/Liberty Mutual, and most recently managed the NY region monoline pollution products at Liberty Mutual. Noelle excels in team leadership, strategic development and client relations, with a proven track record in business growth and product innovation to advance solutions for complex environmental risks.
Continuing Education Credits
The Environmental Insurance: A Risk Mitigating Tool, Realtime Discussion & Considerations course is approved for 0.3 Rutgers CEUs (3 contact hours), as well as the following credits from professional organizations.
New Jersey
NJ Certified Public Works Managers (CPWM): 3 Government Contact Hours – Approval No. 17237
NJ Continuing Legal Education: 3.0 CLEs – Course No. 293
NJ Health Officers and Registered Environmental Health Specialists (HO/REHS): Rutgers University, NJAES, Office of Continuing Professional Education has been approved by the New Jersey Department of Health as a provider of NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs). Participants who complete this education program will be awarded 3.0 NJ Public Health Continuing Education Contact Hours (CEs) – Course No. 21723.
NJ Licensed Site Remediation Professionals (LSRP): Pending Approval
NJ Professional Engineers: 3 Continuing Professional Competency (CPC) Credits
NJ Real Estate Appraisers: Pending Approval
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