Blank Rome partner James S. Carter will serve as a Breakout Session panelist at the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Litigation Section’s 2026 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar, being held March 4 through 7, 2026, in Tucson, Arizona.
The four-day seminar will feature presentations by leading lawyers and insurance professionals on the very latest developments in insurance law and will include informative plenary, breakout, and roundtable programs; engaging networking events; and a variety of outdoor activities.
Jim’s session, “Keep on Truckin’: Insurers’ Right to Be Heard in Mass Tort Bankruptcies After Truck,” will take place Friday, March 6, from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.
About the Session
This panel will evaluate various courts’ interpretation of the Supreme Court’s blockbuster ruling in Truck Insurance Exchange v. Kaiser Gypsum Company from June 2024, which addressed the rights of insurers to participate in mass tort bankruptcies. The panel will summarize the ruling and its immediate impacts and then compare divergent rulings from across the country that have interpreted the Truck opinion differently. Panel members will discuss the lingering ambiguity in the Court’s opinion, if any, and try to predict whether courts will coalesce around a single view or continue to reach diverging opinions on the requirements an insurer must meet in order to “appear and be heard” in bankruptcy under Bankruptcy Code Section 1109(b).
Panelists:
- Moderator: Brian P. Cawley, Burns Bair LLP, Madison, WI
- James Carter, Blank Rome LLP, Washington, D.C.
- Jordan A. Hess, Plevin & Turner LLP, Washington, D.C.
Blank Rome is pleased to be a Gold Sponsor of this event.
For more information and to register to attend, please visit the event webpage.
