Presentations from Biennial Marine Seminar on May 6 - 7, 2010
Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA  

• Opening Remarks by James Craig, President of AIMU 

• State of the Market by Dennis Marvin, Chairman, American Institute of Marine Underwriters 

• Overview of Changes to Environmental Regulations by Capt. Edward Wilmot, Vice-President, Great American Insurance Group

• Removal Of The Polluting Vessel by: Lars Perkins, Vice President Environmental Pollution Group 

• Spill Oil, Kill Birds, Go to Jail: The New Paradigm for Mariners, by Jeffrey L. Bornstein Attorney, K&L Gates LLP

• Clean Marina Program by Tim Leathers, Regional Vice President Almar Management 

• California Doctrine of Primary Assumption of Risk and Its Application in Recreational Marine Cases by Marker E. Lovell, Partner, Gibson, Robb & Lindh

• Impact of Global Warming on Insurance Lawyers and Their Clients by William Stewart, Member Global Insurance Group, Co-Chair of Climate change & Renewable Energy Practice, Cozen O'Connor

• Sustainability and Building Green at the California Academy of Science by Aaron Pope, Manager of Sustainability Programs, California Academy of Sciences. 

• Piracy – An Ancient Risk with Modern Faces by Sven Gerhard LLD, Global Product Leader Hull and Marine Liabilities, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty AG

• Audacity, Déjà vu and Return to a U.S. Maritime Tradition by Michael McDaniel Countryman &

• Prosecuting a Twenty First Century Pirate, 101 by Geoffrey Gill, Countryman & McDaniel

• Piracy from the P&I Perspective by Christopher Adams Directory of European Syndicate & Loss Preventing, Steamship Mutual Insurance Co.

• Global Reinsurance Requirements by John Barnwell, Global Ocean Cargo Product Leader, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty.