November 2007

Shannon Rusnak, CPA, CFE, CFFA and Managing Partner for Matson, Driscoll & Damico’s Southwest region, will present at the Property Loss Research Bureau’s upcoming Large Loss conference.  The conference will take place November 26-28 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.

Shannon’s presentation topic is “Taking the Softness out of Builders’ Risk Soft Cost Losses”.  She and her co-presenters will address the following issues:

• What is included in soft costs
• The relationship between soft costs and contractors’ general conditions, overhead and profit
• Measuring a soft cost loss
• Recent legal trends related to soft costs

Presenting with her are William C. Van Thunen of Daynard & Van Thunen Co., Inc., Jonathon C. Held of J.S. Held, Inc. and Mark S. Katz of Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass.

The Large Loss conference will focus on new and emerging strategies, technologies and services adjusters and experts can use to more effectively manage large, complex property and casualty claims.  For additional information, please visit the PLRB’s website at www.plrb.org.

Originally founded in 1933 as Johnson, Atwater & Company, Matson, Driscoll & Damico is a forensic and investigative accounting firm specializing in insurance loss accounting and litigation support.  The firm currently has 30 offices internationally.  For more information, please visit MD&D’s website at www.mdd.net.

• Shannon Rusnak – Houston, TX
  713-621-3010 or srusnak@mdd.com
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