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Here’s a list of the seminars for the next several months. To register, check the box next to each seminar you’d like to attend, enter your registration info, and click submit.
Industry Outlook
Scott Stephenson, ISO’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, shares his perspective on where the insurance industry is heading for 2009 and beyond. Scott will identify challenges he expects the industry to face and illustrate how insurers can compete in the face of those challenges.
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All property/casualty insurance professionals |
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Scott Stephenson
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
ISO |
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Monday, January 26, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EST
(1900 to 2000 UTC) |
Bridging the Gaps between Underwriting, Claims, and Policyholders
When your company underwrites a property policy, you get an estimated replacement cost. But what if there’s a claim that doesn’t reflect the estimate? Insurers need to bridge the gap between underwriting and claims and involve policyholders more closely in the process. With today’s technology, you can link all applications to a single database and reduce the likelihood of unwelcome surprises. In this session, you’ll find out how.
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Target Audience: |
Claims and underwriting managers |
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Speaker: |
Edmund Webecke
General Manager, Underwriting Products
Xactware |
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Monday, February 2, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EST
(1900 to 2000 UTC) |
ISO’s Financial Institutions Program
In this session, you’ll get an overview of ISO's Financial Institutions Program, which helps you offer your customers comprehensive coverage for fraud and other external or internal crime. You’ll learn about our existing coverage forms for banks, securities brokers and dealers, insurance companies, and finance companies, as well as the coverage form for mutual funds that ISO will introduce in 2009.
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Target Audience: |
Experienced and new financial institutions underwriters |
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Speaker: |
Bob Olausen
Manager, Specialty Commercial Lines Division
ISO |
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Monday, February 9, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EST
(1900 to 2000 UTC) |
Bringing It All Together: Identifying Hazards with COPE Information
ISO’s SPI Plus® system gives you information about construction, occupancy, protection, and exposure (COPE) for more than 3 million commercial buildings across the United States. In this seminar, you’ll learn how to use COPE information to help identify and mitigate hazards.
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Target Audience: |
SPI Plus customers and commercial property underwriting managers |
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Speaker: |
Ed Beres, CFPS
Senior Technical Coordinator
ISO |
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Monday, February 23, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EST
(1900 to 2000 UTC) |
Now and Later: Managing WC Regulatory Requirement Changes during System Implementation
If you’re planning for a new workers comp claims system, you know that implementation will take many months. How are you going to handle changes in regulatory requirements during that period? To achieve compliance and avoid penalties, you may have to work on both the legacy system and the new one — and possibly do some exception processing. In this session, you’ll learn how to build a plan for managing your current reporting challenges (the now) while preparing for successful implementation of a new claims system (the later).
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Target Audience: |
Workers compensation professionals |
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Speaker: |
Larry Gross, CPCU, AU, AIM
National Account Executive for wcPrismTM
ISO |
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Monday, March 2, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EST
(1900 to 2000 UTC) |
ISO Rating Service®: It’s More Than Just a Rating System
ISO Rating Service® is the comprehensive automated rating management system from ISO. Of course, you get automated rating of ISO insurance programs, as well as independent programs and non-ISO lines. But you also get a suite of powerful tools that can help you analyze and assess your business and manage your insurance risk. Learn how at this seminar.
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Target Audience: |
Staff involved with rating programs and systems, including underwriters, end users, and decision makers |
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Glenn McAnally
Manager, ISO Rating Service
ISO |
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Monday, March 9, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EDT
(1800 to 1900 UTC) |
Commercial Property Crime: Reducing Risk and Reducing Loss
When you’re underwriting a commercial property, information on the location’s potential risk for crime can help you develop appropriate insurance programs, set accurate premiums, and recommend measures to prevent crime and reduce loss. In this SPI Plus® web seminar, you’ll learn how to identify conditions at a property that could lead to increased crime risk. You’ll also learn about deterrents you can recommend to your customers.
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Target Audience: |
SPI Plus customers and commercial property underwriting managers |
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Speaker: |
To be announced |
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Monday, March 16, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EDT
(1800 to 1900 UTC) |
Commercial Property Limit of Insurance
In this session, you’ll learn about why we have limit of insurance (LOI) curves and how the curves vary across the commercial property rating structure. You’ll also hear about changes ISO is introducing in conjunction with LOI — for example, new occupancy/construction relativities and specialty commercial lines streamlining.
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Target Audience: |
Commercial property actuaries, underwriters, and staff responsible for rating systems |
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Speakers: |
Rimma Maasbach, FCAS, MAAA, CPCU
Actuarial Consultant
ISO
Hank Lee, FCAS, MAAA
Senior Actuarial Analyst
ISO |
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Monday, March 23, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EDT
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A-PLUSTM/CV Foreclosure AlertTM:
You can’t open a newspaper these days without seeing coverage of the foreclosure crisis and how it is affecting homeowners, banks, and other financial institutions. But what about insurers? When a property you insure starts to face foreclosure, your overall risk of loss increases. In this session, you’ll learn about better ways evaluate the chance of foreclosures in your book of business — and about positive action you can take to reduce your risk.
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Target Audience: |
Underwriting managers and directors |
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James Levendusky
Product Manager, Coverage Verifier Suite of Services
ISO |
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Monday, March 30, 2009
2:00 to 3:00 p.m., EDT
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