Stanley L. Lipshultz

Stanley L. Lipshultz, JD, CPCU, began his career in insurance while attending night school at the Washington College of Law at the American University, as a claims adjuster and liability supervisor for the Insurance Company of North America (INA) in their Washington, D.C. service office from 1968 through 1970.  He was an insurance defense counsel from 1971 until 1998 with the law firm of Lipshultz and Hone in Silver Spring, MD; his practice focused primarily in the defense of agents and brokers and insurance coverage.  Mr. Lipshultz is an independent consultant and provides services in insurance litigation management and consulting, serves as an expert witness in disputes involving agents and brokers errors and omissions, claims handling, bad faith and insurance coverage issues. In addition to serving as an insurance instructor in numerous areas, Mr. Lipshultz also serves as a mediator and arbitrator in insurance related matters.  In 1989 he achieved the designation Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) awarded by the American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters.  He served on the CPCU Consulting, Litigation and Expert Witness Section (CLEWS) governing committee since its inception in 1993, has been the editor of the CLEWS newsletter, and its chairman. He was elected to a three-year term to the CPCU Society's Board of Governors, and as a third year Governor was a member of the Society's Executive and Audit Committees. He was named as the first chairman of the CPCU Society's Diversity Committee serving from 2005 through 2008. He has also been a frequent speaker at the CPCU Annual Meeting and Seminars.  In January 1998 he was awarded the “Standard Setter Award" by the CPCU Society.  At the 2009 CPCU Annual Meeting and Seminars in Denver, he was awarded the prestigious George M. Gottheimer (now Gottheimer-Malecki) Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to insurance education.

Mr. Lipshultz is a frequent lecturer to insurance agents in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia on ethics and other insurance topics, including professional liability and errors and omissions.  He has been an instructor for the DC chapter of the Society of CPCU since 1992 and an instructor for the Independent Insurance Agents of Maryland since 1993.  In 1995, the Independent Insurance Agents of Maryland honored him with the President's Education Award. Mr. Lipshultz has served as the vice-president, president-elect and two terms as President of the DC Chapter of the Society of CPCU.  He has served as chairman of the Metropolitan Washington area Capital I Day since 2005.  

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