Out of the Storm 2009

Making Reform Work

Agenda

Wednesday September 30

6-8PM Welcome Reception / First Floor Gallery with welcome remarks from Scott Richardson, Director, South Carolina Department of Insurance

Thursday October 1

v 7AM Registration in Waterbury Foyer, 2nd Floor / 730AM Breakfast begins in Bayside BC

v 830AM Session begins in Waterbury Ballroom, 2nd Floor

v 840AM Welcome remarks by James J. Donelon Commissioner of Insurance, The State of Louisiana

v Opening remarks by Eli Lehrer, Director and Senior Fellow, CEI Center for Risk, Regulation, & Markets

v 845AM Plenary Address: “State of Residual Insurance Markets” by Rob McKenzie, Managing Director, Guy Carpenter & Company LLC

v 940AM Panel 1: “Residual Markets: Issues and Perspectives “

Ø David Marlett, Chair, the Department of Finance, Banking, & Insurance, Appalachian State University, Moderator

Ø John Miletti, Vice President, Government Affairs, The Travelers Companies Inc. Insurance

Ø Dan Sutter, Associate Professor, University of Texas-Pan American Economics & Finance

Ø Pat Maroney, Director Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center and Kathryn Magee Kip Professor, College of Business Florida State University

Ø Robert Herlong, Consultant, Southern Consulting Services, LLC

Ø MC: Kevin Kane, President, The Pelican Institute

v 10AM Break

v 1045AM Plenary Address by Mike Chaney Commissioner of Insurance, The State of Mississippi

v 1115AM Panel 2: Reform in Louisiana

Ø Moderator - James J. Donelon Commissioner of Insurance, The State of Louisiana

Ø John Wortman, CEO, Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation

Ø Ed O’Brien, Deputy Commissioner of the Office of Property & Casualty, Louisiana Department of Insurance

Ø Representative Charles E. “Chuck” Kleckley, Louisiana House of Representatives

Ø W. Anderson Baker III, President, Gillis, Ellis & Baker, Inc.

v 1215PM Lunch Bayside BC, 3rd Floor

v Keynote 2: Wayne Goodwin, Commissioner of Insurance & State Fire Marshall, The State of North Carolina

v 130PM “Reform in South Carolina: Past, Present, and Future,” Smitty Harrison, Executive Director, South Carolina Wind & Hail Underwriting Association

v 150PM “Wind & Water: Indeterminate Loss & How To Solve It,” Michael Young, Senior Director of the Mitigation and Regulatory Affairs Group at Risk Management Solutions, and Scott Richardson, Director, of the Department of Insurance, State of South Carolina

v 230PM Panel 3: What happened in Florida? Can Florida learn from Louisiana and South Carolina?

Ø Moderator, Katie Webb, Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate

Ø Alan Hays, Representative, Florida

Ø Patricia Born, Research Fellow, The Independent Institute

Ø Sean Shaw, Consumer Advocate, Florida Department of Financial Services

Ø Dr. Jeffrey J. Pompe, Nellie Cooke Sparrow Professor of Business and Professor of Economics, Francis Marion University

v 330PM Session 1: The Future of Reinsurance

Ø “Perspectives on the Neal Bill and What It Could Mean for Coastal Markets,” Alex Kaplan, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Swiss Re and Michael Natal, Vice President, Finance, Swiss Re

Ø Remarks by Lawrence Powell, Research Fellow, Independent Institute

Ø “Reinsurance in the Florida Market: Darn, I’m Done For!” Ted Blanch, Partner, Tiger Risk Partners

v 430PM Keynote 3: Fred Smith, President, The Competitive Enterprise Institute

v 730PM Optional dinners at area restaurants

Friday, October 2

v 7AM Registration in Waterbury Foyer, 2nd Floor / 730AM in Bayside BC Breakfast

v 830AM Panel 4 “The Virtues and Limits of Reinsurance” Waterbury Ballroom, 2nd Floor

Ø  Moderator, Fred Karlinsky, Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate

Ø Steve Weinstein, Senior Vice President, RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.

Ø Brad Kading, President, Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers

Ø Steve McManus, Associate General Counsel, State Farm

Ø John Seo, Fund Manager, Fermat Capital Management

Ø Craig Berrington, Partner, Wiley-Rein

v 930AM Panel 5: The Politics of Mitigation

Ø Moderator: Eli Lehrer, Director and Senior Fellow, CEI Center for Risk, Regulation, & Markets

Ø Michael Armstrong, Senior Vice President, International Codes Council

Ø Tami Torres, Division Director, Florida Financial Services Department

Ø Leslie Chapman-Henderson, President/CEO, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes

Ø Ann Roberson, Manager, South Carolina Safe Home Program Public Information Office, Department of Insurance, State of South Carolina

v 1030AM Break

v 1045AM Panel 6: Coastal Restoration and Insurance

Ø Moderator: Michelle Minton, Deputy Director, CEI Center for Risk, Regulation, & Markets

Ø David Conrad, Senior Water Resources Specialist, National Wildlife Federation

Ø Garret Graves, Executive Assistant to the Governor for Coastal Activities

Ø Patricia Skinner, Disaster Recovery & Mitigation Specialist, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

Ø Dial Rowe, Regional Manager Narragansett Office, Weather Predict

v 12PM Lunch in Bayside BC

1230PM Keynote Speaker: Edward L. Connor, FEMA Acting Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, Acting Federal Insurance Administrator, introduced by Leslie Chapman-Henderson, President/CEO, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes

v 2PM Katrina Bus Tour, meet in the hotel lobby