Course Description
This course taught by Alexandra Darraby, a named Super Lawyer® and author of Darraby on Art Law, is selected by a major insurance company as one of its expert resources for insured losses and damages to artworks and valuable items. The course gives best practices to lawyers, judges, consultants and others a pathway to guide clients who have incurred loss or damage to unique objects like artworks, designer furniture, textiles, and other items. Ethical requirements include professional competence in undertaking and performing duties of client representation. In exigent circumstances like natural disasters (fire, flood, hurricanes), war, civil strife, clients may not have resources to identify experts or access them.
Competence includes how recovery can be attempted when records are also damaged or lost and how to document and structure such claims. This course applies to those who have already suffered losses and provides prophylactic preparatory and preventive steps for those who have not had loss or damage. Focusing on personal property, the course will include supplemental mention on architecture, particularly historic and noteworthy residential properties. Alexandra, as an advocate, represents clients on damage, loss and valuation of artworks on insurance claims and collector disputes with adjusters and appraisal panels. She also works as a neutral as an Arbitrator and a court-referred mediator on disputed claims for valuable losses, destroyed archives, artworks and art records.
Syllabus
- How can evidence be gathered or re-created for potential recovery when records may also be damaged or lost
- Impact of Covid on recordkeeping in Los Angeles and elsewhere
- Record systems to prove claims using multiple formats, programs and software
- Clarifying difference between high wealth home insurance, umbrella policies and scheduled work
- Obligations and duties of insureds, brokers and insurance companies in California