Environmental Insurance: A Risk Mitigating Tool, Realtime Discussion & Considerations

This half-day course will explore key concepts of environmental insurance and how to leverage it as a powerful tool for risk mitigation.

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Course Details

Course Name: Environmental Insurance: A Risk Mitigating Tool, Realtime Discussion & Considerations
Course Code: EN0530WA25
Date of Most Recent Offering: October 22, 2024

Date: October 22, 2024 UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING
Time: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT (Log-in time: 8:45 am EDT)

Location: Online UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING
Format: Live, instructor-led UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING

Registration Fee: $195 per person UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING
Multi Person Discount Fee: $175 per person (Save when you sign up with a colleague!) UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING

Registration Closes: October 21, 2024 at 10:00 am EDT UPDATE THIS FOR NEXT OFFERING

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Course Overview

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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 trends 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 

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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

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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.

Student Reviews

“I really liked the information on new construction techniques and methodologies.”

– Past Participant

Most useful aspect of the course: “The clarity for some of the mitigation techniques. Providing photos of how unique situations were addressed is very appreciated. Most courses I take talk about the steps somewhat vaguely so it becomes harder to apply in real situations.”

– Past Participant

“Loaded with great information. Teachers were great.”

– Past Participant

Continuing Education Credits

The most recent offering of Environmental Insurance: A Risk Mitigating Tool, Realtime Discussion & Considerations was approved for 0.3 Rutgers CEUs, as well as the following credits from professional organizations. We will reapply for similar credits the next time the course runs, but we cannot guarantee credit approval for future offerings.

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.

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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): 2.5 Professional Development CECs – Course No. 2024-062.  

NJ Professional Engineers: 3 Continuing Professional Competency (CPC) Credits

NJ Real Estate Appraisers: Pending Approval

Course Requirements and Policies

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This online course will be delivered via Zoom.

Equipment you will need to access this training:

  • A computer, tablet, or smartphone
  • Microphone is not necessary (all students will be muted on entry; you can use the “chat function” to type your questions and interact with the instructor)
  • Webcam is optional but not necessary
  • Speaker is optional but not necessary (you will be able to listen to the presentation by dialing in on your phone if your computer does not have a speaker)

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A unique email address is required for each registrant to register and access our courses.

  • If this is your first time registering with us, please provide your own unique email address when registering; do not provide an email address that you share with co-workers.
  • If you have previously taken classes with us and have used an email address that you share with your co-workers or supervisor, your account must be updated with a unique email address. To do this, please send an email to us at registration@njaes.rutgers.edu stating that your email address needs to be changed and include:
    • Your full name
    • The shared email address that needs to be changed
    • Your unique email address
    • A phone number where you can be reached if we have any questions

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Each registrant will be asked provide a photo of him/herself holding their government-issued photo ID. This is required by credit boards so that you may receive credits for participating in this online course.

  • You will receive a reminder email prior to the start of the class with further instructions. Wait to receive these instructions before you attempt to upload your ID.
  • The photo must be clear enough that we can read your name and verify that the person pictured on the ID is in fact the person holding it.
  • After an OCPE staff member reviews the picture and verifies your identity, you will have access to participate in the course when it begins.

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A $60 cancellation fee applies for this course. Substitutions are permitted. View our cancellation policy.

Program Questions? We’re Here to Help!

If you have any questions about Environmental Insurance: A Risk Mitigating Tool, Realtime Discussion & Considerations, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

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Program Coordinator: Pamela Springard-Mayer
848-932-7463
pspring@rutgers.edu

For registration assistance, please contact our Registration Department at 848-932-9271, option 2 or email registration@njaes.rutgers.edu.

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