Webcasts & Webinars from the A.M. Best Company
The A.M. Best Company is making confident leaps forward in producing innovative online presentations that explore key issues. These content-rich events connect you with leaders in the industry and provide the opportunity to learn first-hand about the trends and developments facing insurance today. Register for upcoming Webcasts below, or view or listen to past events in our A.M. Best Company Webcast & Webinar Library.
2010 Calendar of Online Webcasts
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Insurance innovation starts with solid underwriting. A panel of insurers, technologists and underwriting experts will examine the best practices and cutting-edge techniques insurers are using to make their underwriting more accurate and tie those activities to claims, pricing and performance. The best are leveraging these skills to quickly and effectively penetrate new markets and launch products that produce results. This Webcast is sponsored by FirstBest Systems, Inc., a leading provider of modern software solutions for property and casualty and workers' compensation insurers.
Bankers, insurers, mutual fund managers, investment advisors, private equity partnerships and others face a growing array of liability exposures. A combination of market and regulatory forces are raising the stakes for financial institutions, making the need for appropriate coverage more acute than ever. A panel of experts including insurers, brokers and industry experts will assess the new environment for financial institutions' liability, including emerging areas of risk, the environment for pricing and availability, how innovative organizations are deploying coverage in this fast-changing sector. This Webcast is sponsored by Zurich Financial Services Group, a leading insurance-based financial services provider headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland."State-Run Worker's Compensation Funds," May 12, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
The Best's Review editors will explore how state workers' compensation funds are changing across the country and how for-profit workers' compensation insurers that compete against them despite those changes.
"State of the Global Reinsurance Market,"August 11, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
The editors of Best's Review will lead a panel discussion of emerging reinsurance markets around the world and how reinsurers are growing their business in those locations."Choosing an Insurance Domicile," November 9, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET
The editors of Best's Review will explore how states and other countries are competing against each other to draw insurance companies to their respective territories because it is a clean industry that doesn't use a lot of public services, but pays a lot of taxes.
The A.M. Best Company Webcast & Webinar Library
View or listen to past Webcasts and Webinars hosted A.M. Best Company.
"U.S. Hospitals/Health-Care Systems - Financial Review"
A.M. Best Company analysts and industry experts discuss the financial performance of U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and health care systems. (Event date: 3/4/10)BestWeek Europe editor David Pilla joins A.M. Best analysts and P&I club insurers and experts to discuss the outcome of the 2010 renewal season, the outlook for the coming year and factors that are affecting the financial strength of this important market. (Event date: 3/3/10)A.M. Best Co. analysts are joined by an international panel to review the growth opportunities and role of global and local insurers and reinsurers in fast-developing markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition, the panel discusses the expansion of Takaful and re-Takaful insurance, the use of microinsurance and insurance pools and the changing distribution systems. This Webinar is based on a new report authored by Yvette Essen, head of market analysis for A.M. Best's global financial services division. (Event date: 2/25/10)"State of the Medical Professional Liability Market: What Brokers, Doctors and Hospitals Need to Know"
The editors of Best's Review will be joined by a panel of experts and insurers to examine the state of the medical professional liability insurance market, including coverage trends, the competitive landscape and issues affecting the financial strength of insurers serving this crucial market serving doctors, hospitals and other health professionals. (Event date: 2/10/10)Over the past 25 years, continued aggregation of coastal property values and the ongoing assimilation of physical assets in highly vulnerable areas around the country have created increasing levels of volatility for the Property and Casualty Industry. Normalizing the impact of historic U.S. wind and quake events in terms of population growth and wealth accumulation demonstrates the vulnerability of the industry's balance sheet to major catastrophic events. Estimates of insured and general economic damage associated with a major terrorist attack suggest our industry confronts increasingly unprecedented levels of volatility. This Webcast, hosted by the editors of Best's Review, is sponsored by Lexington Insurance Co., America's leading surplus lines insurer, providing property, casualty, and specialty coverages and programs for a vast array of risk classes to large and middle market companies. (Event date: 1/15/10)The editors of Best's Review magazine will be joined by a panel of experts to discuss how commercial insurance entities can be susceptible to catastrophic liability and how that susceptibility can affect a company's prospects. This Webcast is sponsored by Lexington Insurance Co., America's leading surplus lines insurer, providing property, casualty, and specialty coverages and programs for a vast array of risk classes to large and middle market companies. (Event date: 11/13/09)A panel of experts in establishing and advising the operations of insurance organizations will conduct a review of insurance locations around the world. Additional topics will include: developments in taxation, privacy, regulation, incentives for starting and relocating companies, and more. We'll also explore why some locations are growing their insurance business while some are shedding. This Webcast was sponsored by the New Hampshire Division of Economic Development. (Event date: 11/4/09)Old relationships and ways of conducting business still dictate many insurers' interactions with producers and customers. In a time when most producers have become less committed to one company and more willing to consider new products and services, it can be difficult to keep up. We'll explore how companies can best modernize their business practices and producer relationships by developing new products, services and strategies. This Webcast was sponsored by WNS Global Services, a leading global business process outsourcing company. (Event date: 10/29/09)"State of the Excess and Surplus Market"
Company leaders and experts in the specialty insurance market will discuss the findings of a newly published report from A.M. Best and the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices (NAPSLO) on the issues shaping the excess and surplus market and how companies are faring within it. This Webcast was co-sponsored by NAPSLO, a national trade association representing the surplus lines industry and the wholesale insurance marketing system. (Event date: 9/25/09)Experts discuss the latest planning options, available coverages and strategies for parents who want to provide life-long financial security for their children with special needs. (Event date: 9/16/09)Insurance defense attorneys and insurance counsel will discuss how insurers are working with outside counsel to handle their defense needs. Panelists will examine how the nature of insurance defense is changing and how the role of outside counsel is becoming broader and requiring more specialized skills and knowledge. (Event date: 09/09/09)"State of the Captive Insurance Market"
A.M. Best analysts and guests review the state of the captive insurance market, including financial results, aggregates and averages for rated captives. (Event date: 07/30/09)
"Cutting-Edge Claims Management"
The Best's Review Webcast Series continues with a look at the claims market today. Experts in helping insurers manage their claims will participate in a one-hour online video presentation hosted by the editors of Best's Review magazine and sponsored by Accenture. (Event date: 07/15/09)John Czuba of Best's Directory of Recommended Insurance Adjusters joined Marty Brown of the National Association of Insurance Adjusters (NAIA) and marketing expert Elise M. Farnham of Illumine Consulting to discuss the state of the market for insurance adjusting. (Event date: 07/1/09)Co-hosted by A.M. Best and NAPSLO, the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices, this Webcast was our best attended yet, with more than 1,050 viewers. Industry leaders reviewed specialty insurance in light of a new survey conducted by NAPSLO. (Event date: 06/11/09)"Navigating Your Way to and Through an A.M. Best Rating:
A Comprehensive Guide to the Rating Process for the Cayman
Captive Market"
John Andre and Steven Chirico of A.M. Best's Rating Division joined Tina Bukow-Truman of Business Development to discuss A.M. Best's rating process, including criteria used in determining and assigning ratings. They also discussed current market trends for Cayman captive insurance companies and other alternative risk transfer vehicles. (Event date: 05/27/09.)"Agency Finance and Valuation: What's My Agency Worth?" *
Skip Hagerty of Philo Smith, Tim Cunningham of Optis Partners, Robert Pettinicchi of InsurBanc and Madelyn Flannagan of the IIABA discuss the state of insurance agency mergers and acquisitions, what variables are being used to determine agency value, and what insurance agency principals can do to improve the value of their businesses. (Event date: 05/13/09)"Specialty Insurance Leaders Update Changing Landscape, Coverage Opportunities in E&S Market"
A.M. Best Company and NAPSLO co-host a Webinar on the state of specialty insurance markets. Speakers include Daniel Ryan, A.M. Best Co.; Tony Markel, Markel Corp.; Chris Treanor, Mercator Risk Services; and E.G. Lassiter, RSUI Group. (Event date: 10/30/08)"Property/Casualty Market Update"
Matthew Mosher, Anthony Diodato, Richard Attanasio and Robert DeRose of A.M. Best discuss why issues at the holding-company level can differ from those at operating units, how analysts gauge the possible impact of a catastrophe on individual companies and why it can take more than one event to change the overall insurance market. (Event date: 9/24/08)"Issues in Captive Insurance Ratings"
John Andre and Steven Chirico discuss A.M. Best's annual 2008 special report on the state of the rated captive insurance industry with Chris Mancini of Captive.com. The report focuses primarily on captives domiciled in the United States, but the discussion touches on general captive-insurance-related issues. (Event date: 07/31/08)"Issues in Life Settlement Securitizations"
Emmanuel Modu, A.M. Best's Managing Director and Global Head of Structured Finance, explains A.M. Best's approach to rating securities backed by life settlements. He is joined by attorney J. Alan Jensen of Holland & Knight, who discusses the legal issues surrounding the life settlement market. (Event date: 05/08/08)
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