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| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Opening Remarks
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| 9:05 am - 9:15 am | Co-Chairman Remarks
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| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Opening Keynote
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| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Advisen & Aspen Casualty Market Research Survey Findings
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| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Casualty Market Metrics Advisen’s assessment of the casualty insurance market, including current size, growth rate, and premium potential will be presented.
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| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | The Risk Manager’s Perspective A panel of risk managers will share their experiences related to M&A transactions. Panelists will discuss casualty specific challenges as well as ensuring positive risk management involvement and strategies for optimizing post-transaction program structures.
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| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Morning Break | |
Track 1: Specialty Workshops | Track 2: Specialty Workshops | |
| 11:15 am - 12:30 pm | 11:15am – 11:45am / Drones: The Risk from Above They are everywhere and see everything… This speaker will discuss the commercial uses of drones, beyond package delivery and monitoring of large campuses or sites. The panel will address what exposures are triggered by those applications and how the insurance industry could respond.
———————————————————- 11:45am – 12:30pm / Technology’s Casualty Drivers This panel will outline how the Internet of Things is increasingly pervading society, and with it, casualty exposures. A lot of potential losses from faulty or compromised technology (e.g. hackers sabotaging medical devices or accidents involving autonomous vehicles) may fall under liability policies. The panel will also touch on product liability exposures for increasingly complex technology components in all manner of products.
| Coverage Matters With a focus on general liability, excess liability, this extended workshop will dive into specific coverage issues, with a mixture of panel session and individual speakers. Taking examples from real claims, speakers will discuss coverage design developments and highlight some inadequacies (including the named insured construction). It will address customer budgeting constraints and ask how money-saving decisions can have a longer-term impact on cover when a claim hits. This session will also identify trends defining products liability.
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Conference Luncheon | |
Track 1: Specialty Workshops | Track 2: Specialty Workshops | |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | 1:30pm – 2:15pm / Excess and Surplus Lines Defining the E&S marketplace. This panel will discuss the role and the value of wholesale intermediaries and specialty E&S insurance carriers in the global casualty marketplace.
———————————————————- 2:15pm-3:00pm / M&A Due Diligence Mergers & Acquisitions are part of many corporate strategies, whether it relates to spinning off non-core assets or as part of an overall growth strategy. This panel will dive into the mechanics of an acquisition and discuss the impact an acquisition has to risk management decision making, financial statement impact, and usage of different insurance products to facilitate a smooth change of control. Topics will also include risk consolidation, the impact of introducing debt onto the balance sheet, impact of a stock versus an asset purchase and the ability to assume or transfer risk via a Purchase and Sale agreement.
| Workers’ Compensation Back to profitability? Workers’ Compensation (WC) is a key casualty product and a bellwether for economic health. This workshop session will combine individual speakers and panel sessions to get under the skin of the key developments in WC in the past year. What are the developing trends in workplace accident frequency? How has inflation paid a part in claims? Is Big Data transforming underwriting and claims management for WC? Will healthcare reform have an impact on WC profitability? Is the line of business profitable – if so, what implications does that have for buyers? Are there regional or industry hotspots for claims?
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| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Cyber Insurance and Casualty As cyber threats continue to pervade the commercial world, there is increasing overlap between cover offered under standalone cyber policies and general liability. Did the Sony decision effectively close the door on cyber coverage through a CGL policy, or are there still avenues to find coverage? What about other liability policies? This panel will look at the clash of the two covers and explore incidents where casualty insurers are contractually offering cyber cover under GL policies as well as other types of casualty policies.
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| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | The View from the Top Top casualty executives will give their insights into the most significant trends and developments in the casualty insurance market. Topics to be addressed include factors driving the casualty pricing cycle, capacity, loss reserve adequacy, underwriting discipline and emerging risks.
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| 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm | Closing Remarks & Reception | |
We consistently deliver an audience that is 25% or more comprised of Risk Managers & Insurance Buyers, Brokers (25%-30%), Insurance Companies (30%), Lawyers (10%), and other insurance professionals (5%).
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