Crittenden liability conference set

The Crittenden Medical Liability Conference is set for April 15 to 17 at the Hyatt Regency Savannah, and it is not a generic insurance meetup. It is a tightly targeted market for people who price, defend, and manage medical malpractice risk. Crittenden bills it as a two-and-a-half-day event for insurance professionals, with senior attendees from carriers, brokerages, law firms, risk teams, and healthcare organizations. The conference site says the program includes nine hours of educational sessions, while industry coverage describes more than 20 hours of programming spread across claims, legal, risk, and underwriting tracks. (crittendenmedical.com) That mix matters because medical liability is having one of those periods when everything seems to touch everything else. A malpractice claim is not just a courtroom problem. It is an underwriting problem, a patient safety problem, a data problem, and increasingly an AI problem. Crittenden’s own agenda and related conference materials show exactly where the market’s attention is going: telemedicine, artificial intelligence in care delivery, patient safety, emerging clinical exposures, and the way claims and underwriting practices are shifting under legal pressure. (crittendenmedical.com) The agenda reads less like a broad survey and more like a list of the industry’s current anxieties. One featured session asks the basic question hanging over healthcare AI: who is liable when a patient is harmed and the technology played a role. Other highlighted topics include the insurance effects of wider GLP-1 drug use, clinical risk exposures that can erode coverage, political and regulatory changes, and the underwriting and liability complications tied to telemedicine. This is what buyers in the market are shopping for right now. They want practical guidance on risks that are new enough to be unsettled but large enough to affect pricing and claims strategy immediately. (crittendenmedical.com) That is also why the conference is drawing senior people rather than just line staff. Crittenden says it is aimed at executives at healthcare providers, insurance executives, underwriters, brokers, risk managers, attorneys, and healthcare administrators. Outside participants describe the crowd in even plainer terms: over 500 medical insurance professionals, including prominent attorneys and carrier leaders. For anyone selling into this niche, that makes Savannah a buyer-heavy room. It is a place where the people who control medical professional liability budgets are already gathered around the same set of problems. (crittendenmedical.com) The speaker lineup reinforces that point. Wilson Elser is sending Lori Rosen Semlies to discuss how defense teams handle high-value medical claims, including damages assessment, mediation, and trial strategy. ProAssurance has promoted a telemedicine panel featuring its senior MPL risk management consultant Mary-Lynn Ryan. OmniSure is using the event to press a different but equally concrete concern: sexual abuse and molestation safety, framed not as abstract compliance but as a liability exposure that carriers and healthcare organizations need to underwrite and prevent more aggressively. (proassurance.com) So the story here is not just that a conference is on the calendar. It is that one corner of the insurance world is convening around a specific set of fast-moving risks in healthcare, and doing it in a format built for dealmaking as much as education. Registration is now at standard pricing of $1,195, with group discounts for three or more attendees, and the event opens Wednesday, April 15, in Savannah. (crittendenmedical.com)