Terry J. Galganski, J.D.

Mr. Galganski is copresenting Workshop H1, “Certificates of Insurance: Sure Bet or Bluff?” on Thursday. He is Director of Insurance & Risk Programs at the Des Moines, Iowa, corporate headquarters of The Weitz Company, LLC, a company with over 2,500 employees and annual revenues exceeding $ 1.6 billion. It provides technical, construction management, and construction services in the United States and Guam.
In this position, his responsibilities include:

• Developing and establishing a corporate risk management philosophy.

• Providing the appropriate focus and tools and processes to promote and emulate that philosophy.

• Planning, managing, and coordinating all insurance and risk programs and claims to control risks and losses at the project, business unit, and company levels.

• Overseeing the company’s corporate insurance programs: property, casualty, workers’ compensation, umbrella/excess, builder’s risk, automobile, pollution, professional liability, contractor-controlled insurance, and contractor default insurance.

• Overseeing any project-specific insurance demands.

• Providing training to project personnel and management on risk management and insurance tools, processes, and issues.

• Managing the personnel that make up the Weitz Risk Management department.

These responsibilities require working extensively with the company’s corporate legal, financial, operations, and safety levels and with its core business units.

Mr. Galganski has been involved in the construction industry for nearly 25 years, providing legal advice, transactional work, claim and litigation management, and risk management and insurance guidance. He is an active member of the ABA, Forum on the Construction Industry, its past Chair of its Division 7, Insurance, Surety & Liens, and a past steering committee member of its Division 4, Construction Management, Design Build & Related Concepts, and a past member of the Construction Committee of the Missouri Bar.

During these years, he has been given the opportunity to speak about construction insurance and related topics on several occasions, including at IRMI’s Construction Risk Conference, and has written several articles involving these topics, including “Colorado’s New Anti-Indemnity Statute: Mere Splash or Next Wave?” in the Forum’s newsletter, Under Construction, Vol. 10, No. 1 (December 2007); “Illinois’ Targeted Tender ‘Paramount Right’: Is it Being Extinguished by the Narrowing of Available Additional Insured Coverage?” Illinois Association of Defense Council and the Society of Illinois Construction Attorney’s Insurance Symposium, Additional Insureds & Targeted Tenders session (September 2007); “Agreements to Procure Insurance: What’s the Right Balance?” with Donald S. Malecki, CPCU (ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, 2005); Chapter 4, “Construction Insurance” of MISSOURI Construction Law, Second Edition, Volumes I and II (Mo. Bar CLE 2004); “Additional Insureds in Landlord-Tenant Relationships: The ‘Landscape of Risks,’” The Risk Report (International Risk Management Institute, Inc., March 2004); “Insurance Exceptions of the Missouri Anti-Indemnity Statute, Part 1 of 2,” The Journal of the Missouri Bar (March/April 2002); “Insurance Exceptions of the Missouri Anti-Indemnity Statute, Part 2 of 2,” The Journal of the Missouri Bar (May/June 2002); and “Owners and Contractors Protective Liability: An Insurance Tool in Construction” in The Construction Lawyer, Volume 15, No. 1 (Jan. 1995).

He is a graduate of St. Louis University Law School and Northwestern University. He is also a member of the Missouri and Illinois Bar (presently inactive).