Anderson Kill is pleased to announce for the seventh year in a row, Anderson Kill has been selected to partner with the Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS) to provide timely, educational programs to its members and industry experts through the PERK program.

This year, Anderson Kill offers the following four new cutting-edge sessions:

What Every Risk Manager Needs to Know About Data Security - Data security breaches continue to dominate the headlines, with more and more businesses, governmental authorities and other organizations falling victim. Now news comes that data breaches are actually under-reported. Thus, the problem is even worse than currently thought. To equip risk management professionals for this ever-growing threat, this session will examine key measures that businesses must take to protect themselves and comply with the law, including how risk managers can better work with their IT departments and in-house counsel, how best to deal with a data breach, and providing an overview of the types of losses that a serious breach will entail so that risk managers can make more informed assessments of this peril and adjust their risk management strategies and insurance purchases accordingly.

Assembling a Dream Team to Maximize Insurance Coverage - This session will explore the ways in which risk managers and in-house and outside legal counsel can work together to provide the best possible service to corporations and other institutions in the procurement of insurance and the pursuit of recoveries on claims.Ten Tips for Getting Claims Paid - Getting claims paid is often difficult. Unfortunately, the larger the claim, the more difficult it is to get the claim paid. This session will provide risk managers and in-house counsel with a host of practical tips for keeping the claims process moving, minimizing resistance, and maximizing coverage. These are not your father's insurance tips. They include factoring such considerations as the solvency of your various insurers, the value of getting paid fast, forum sensitivity, and getting the right people on the other side of the negotiating table.

M&A Pre-Nup: Insurance Due Diligence - Shareholder litigation has become an almost obligatory feature of mergers & acquisitions. Cornerstone Research reports that in 2011 96% of deals valued over $500 million and 85% of deals valued between $100--500 million attracted litigation -- an average of over 4 suits each. The near-certainty of litigation in the wake of M&A highlights the imperative for risk managers to conduct effective due diligence on a prospective acquisition's [or buyer's?] historic insurance assets and potential liabilities or losses. In this session, risk managers will learn how to assess a target company's liability risks and evaluate any potential insurance shortfall. A risk manager will address real life examples of what worked well and what didn't in performing M&A due diligence.For more information about these sessions, or to request a session, please visit PERK@rims.org or call (212) 655-7425.

About RIMS and PERK

The Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the practice of risk management, a discipline that protects physical, financial and human resources.

The Professional Exchange of Risk Knowledge (PERK) Program is a unique partnership between RIMS, RIMS chapters and industry experts.