Save the date for our 2025 Day of Education! Join us at the Westin in Seattle, 1900 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101 on Thursday, May 22, 2025. A cocktail hour will be held on the evening prior, Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

MARINE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF SEATTLE

DAY OF EDUCATION

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Registration

8:00 – 8:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks

8:45 - 9:00 a.m. 

Hilary Ertzberger, DOE Committee Chair

Lauren Dixon, MIAS President

John Miklus, AIMU, President

State of the Insurance Market

 9:00 – 9:50 a.m.

Tony Plutino, Head of US Ocean Marine

The Hartford

Cargo Claims & How to Value

10:00 – 10:50 a.m.

Micah Pilgrim, CPA-Senior VP

JS Held

From Crisis to Claim:  The M/V Dali Incident and General Average Principles

11:00 – 11:50 a.m.

Mark Meredith, Partner

 Roose + Partners

Lunch

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. 

Liabilities, Limitations, and Arrests – Oh My!

 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.

Elizabeth Strunk, Attorney

Liskow & Lewis

The Ship Just Sank:  Now What?

 2:00 – 3:20 p.m.

Ernie Milsewicz, Fire Investigator

Jensen Hughes

Patrick Gallagher, Executive Director

Marine Exchange of Puget Sound

Aaron Harrington, Director of Casualty Response

Global Diving & Salvage

2025 Maritime & Transportation Law Update

 3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Kevin Beauchamp Smith, Attorney at Law

Law Office of Kevin Beauchamp Smith