Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Craig R. Blackman served as a moderator for Business Insurance America's Emerging Risks and Innovation Summit in New York.

The panel, “Tip of the Iceberg: Proactive Risk Mitigation in the Age of Climate Change,” showcased recent innovations in risk management and underwriting to best protect against the implications of climate change.

The panel included Mathew Mampara, associate vice president of Dewberry; Robert Petrilli, president of the underwriting division of AmWINS Group Inc.; and Peter Sousounis, vice president and director of climate change research at AIR Worldwide.

Blackman is co-chair of the Stradley Ronons insurance practice and cyber insurance groups.

Blackman has knowledge on the National Flood Insurance Program and focuses his practice on a variety of insurance industry issues, including commercial and personal lines, cyber, directors and officers, and errors and omissions with a focus on mutual fund boards, general liability, land title, fidelity and surety, and professional, employment and products liability.

He counsels clients on primary, umbrella, excess policies and reinsurance, as well as captive, self-insured and surplus lines programs and proof of claim/coverage analyses in receivership. Blackman also serves on the firm's diversity committee.

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Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby partner Mark S. Setaro, chair-elect of the workers' compensation section, executive committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, served as moderator for the Workers' Compensation Bench Bar Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The program was part of the New Jersey State Bar Association's annual meeting.

In his legal practice, Setaro represents insurance carriers and third-party administrators in workers' compensation matters.

He handles matters ranging from basic work injuries to cases of advanced occupational medical conditions.

He appears before state courts in New Jersey and handles appeals before the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Setaro is a New Jersey certified workers' compensation lawyer.

Before joining Weber Gallagher, Setaro headed up the house counsel workers' compensation department for a large insurance company in New Jersey.

Elected and Appointed

Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano associate Nicholas Feden was appointed vice-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's social security disability committee.

Feden joins Pond Lehocky partner Thomas Giordano Jr. in a leadership role on the committee. In the vice chair role, Feden will help organize programing to keep the committee at the forefront of social security disability litigation.

Feden joined Pond Lehocky in 2017.

His practice is focused on handling complex disability claims that cannot be resolved at the administrative level and require an appeal to the federal courts.

As co-chair of the firm's disability appellate division, he created processes and procedures for multijurisdictional federal practice covering 12 district courts in four circuits.

Feden also serves as board member with the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and is a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Social Justice Law Project.

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King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul announced that Jessica F. Moyer wasa appointed to the law firm's executive committee.

Named a partner in 2014, Moyer concentrates her practice in family and education law.

She is president of the Bethlehem Area School District Education Foundation and vice president of the board for Via of the Lehigh Valley.

Moyer is the chair of the family law committee for the Northampton County Bar Association and is involved in the Pennsylvania Bar Association's family law section.

In 2018 she was among the PBA's Presidential Award winners for her work on the association's good governance task force.