Agenda

Kick off your symposium experience with an hour dedicated to your professional trajectory. This session is specifically curated for Future PLUS members to bridge the gap between “attending” and “advancing”. Whether you are a first-time attendee or looking to deepen your industry roots, this program provides the tools to navigate the symposium with purpose. It combines strategic networking with actionable career insights to help you build a lasting professional foundation.

Reflecting on 25 Years of Evolution and Results: A retrospective examination of the key market cycles, claims trends, risk management innovations, and partnership strategies that have shaped medical professional liability outcomes over the past quarter century & Positioning for the Next Era of Care and Risk: An exploration of emerging risks, regulatory dynamics, technology-driven change, and strategic imperatives that will define the future of medical professional liability and guide sustainable performance going forward.

This session shows how the use of AI and predictive analytics can be implemented to materially improve medical professional liability claims handling — from early triage and exposure scoring to investigative prioritization, pattern detection, and settlement strategy. We will discuss pragmatic use cases (medical-record review, predictive severity and reserve scoring, fraud detection, and claims-outcome forecasting), demonstrate how these tools drive timelier, more consistent, and cost-efficient decisions. We will also address governance and how claims staff jurisdictional experience oversight is imperative.

Federal employment litigation has reached an inflection point. New discrimination filings crossed 20,000 for the first time ever in 2025. Disability accommodation suits have more than doubled since 2022. And yet, FLSA claims — once a mainstay of the plaintiffs’ bar — continue their decade-long decline. Our panel will examine the forces reshaping the claims landscape: landmark Supreme Court rulings, a retreating EEOC, the long shadow of COVID-19, and what it all means for healthcare organizations.

CE/CLE Session
This session explores the evolving medical staffing landscape in 2026. It centers on how shifting demand drivers, the expanding role of allied health professionals, regulatory and operational risks, and urban–rural disparities are reshaping staffing strategies. We look at the impact of technology on coverage, compliance, and future staffing models, framing staffing as both a workforce and systems-level challenge.

Join our US and UK panelists as they explore key legal and regulatory pressures reshaping healthcare on both sides of the Atlantic. This session will examine the surge in False Claims Act litigation and whistleblower suits, medical billing fraud schemes including upcoding and unbundling, key lessons from four years of No Surprises Act arbitration, and how reviver statutes are affecting abuse allegations against physicians. Gain actionable insights to navigate these complex challenges.

Step into the pressure cooker. The managed care market of 2026 is running hotter than ever—defined by aggressive consolidation, a bearish financial climate, and medical cost trends that refuse to cool. Add in intensifying regulatory scrutiny, volatile political crosswinds, and a litigation landscape that’s erupting from all sides—including class actions, AI driven decision making challenges, and mounting disputes over behavioral health and specialty drugs, and you’ve got a perfect storm. This session breaks down the forces that are turning up the heat and prepares you for what comes next.

CE/CLE Session
This session features insights into professional liability claim trends from defense counsel, a claims leader, and a healthcare risk executive currently on the front lines. The panel will discuss the challenges defense attorneys and claims adjudicators face, and how these challenges can affect loss severity and underwriting decisions. Attendees will gain a new appreciation of how the professional liability landscape is evolving and how providers, claims professionals and defense attorneys are working to minimize and control risk.

AI is and will reshape healthcare litigation—from how plaintiffs identify and prosecute cases to how defense, claims, and experts respond when AI influences care decisions. This session explores evolving defense and claims strategies and underwriting approaches as insurers confront new liability, evidentiary, and risk evaluation challenges driven by AI adoption.

“The U.S. physician workforce is undergoing a structural transformation – shifting rapidly from independent practice models to employment and platform-based care delivery. Driven by labor shortages, administrative complexity, capital investment, and payer dynamics, this trend is accelerating the corporatization of medicine across specialties.

As Physicians aggregate into larger, multi-site organizations backed by private equity, health systems, and payors, the nature of risk is fundamentally changing.

This session will explore:
•The supply and demand forces driving physician aggregation
•The evolving landscape of buyers and ownership models
•How MSO structures and platform economics are reshaping care delivery
•Why risk is migrating from individuals to institutions

And most importantly, what these structural changes mean for medical professional liability underwriting, including risk concentration, severity trends, and the need for new underwriting frameworks. “

CE/CLE Session
Changes in federal and state regulations in the last several years has impacted the Professional Liability Insurance industry in multiple ways including claims that may be pursued, the standard of care, and underwriting consideration. We’ll use recent changes to the recommended vaccine schedule as a case study for examining these issues.

CE/CLE Session
Enjoy a full plated breakfast and an engaging keynote presentation about AI and its emerging risk!

This session will start with a brief overview of AI, the different types, and how they are used in Healthcare. We will also review the different capabilities we are seeing from AI when it is tested in artificial settings and what kind of capabilities we are seeing in the real world. Finally, we will discuss if AI is increasing or decreasing risk?

“You can read a submission cover to cover and still miss what matters most. Applications tell you what a healthcare organization looks like. Risk maturity tells you how it actually operates when patient safety is on the line. Only 5% of organizations operate at advanced risk maturity — half remain at a compliance-only level. That gap directly predicts claim frequency, severity, and defensibility, but it rarely shows up in the data you’re pricing from.

This session gives underwriters a practical framework for identifying risk maturity signals in the submissions they’re already reviewing — and turning that insight into sharper risk selection and pricing decisions.

You’ll walk away with:
•How to spot risk maturity signals and red flags without additional data requests.
•Questions for broker conversations that surface what the applications doesn’t.
•A framework connecting risk maturity to frequency, severity, and defensibility expectations.”

Private equity has become a powerful force across hospitals, physician practices, behavioral health, and post-acute care—bringing capital and operational expertise, but also raising concerns about quality, access, affordability, and malpractice exposure. This session will unpack the full spectrum of impact, from innovation and turnaround stories to consolidation, price pressures, and high-profile failures. Panelists will explore how these trends shape clinical risk, claim severity, and underwriting decisions, and what “responsible investment” should look like when patients’ lives—and insurers’ balance sheets—are on the line.