Wednesday September 17th, 2008

3:00pm - 6:00pm Registration: Location: Room Archer Foyer
6:00pm - 8:00pm Welcome Dinner: Location: Pool Terrace (in case of rain: Barony Grill)


Thursday September 18th, 2008

8:00am - 12:00pm Registration - Archer Foyer

8:00am - 9:20am Breakfast Buffet - Elliot/Drayton Foyer

8:30am - 8:45am Opening Remarks by Scott Richardson, Director of SC Department of Insurance - Elliot/Drayton/Heyward Rooms

8:45am - 9:20am What Are the Catastrophic Risks? Jeff Fieldson (Marsh, Nashville) - Elliot/Drayton/Heyward Rooms

9:30am - 10:45am Panel 1: Federal Backstopping - Archer Room
Chair: Fred Karlinsky (Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate, P.A.)
Dennis Burke (Reinsurance Association of America)
Stephen Ellis (Taxpayers for Common Sense)
Jack Armstrong (Liberty Mutual)
Kevin McCarty (FL Insurance Commissioner)
Robert W. Paiano (Senior Vice President, The Hartford)

10:45-11:15 Morning Break

11:15am - 12:00pm Plenary Address 1: Disney World’s Model: Catastrophe Proof? - Archer Room
Presented by: Ray Maxwell (Reedy Creek, FL Improvement District)

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch Buffet - Ocean Front Pavilion

1:00pm - 4:00pm Workshop 1: The Richardson South Carolina Plan - Elliot/Drayton Rooms
Chair: Michelle Minton (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Presenter: Scott Richardson (Director of the SC Department of Insurance)
Dail Rowe (Weather Predict Consulting)
Eric Nelson (The Travelers Companies)
Debra Ballen (American Insurance Association)

or

1:00pm - 4:00pm Workshop 2: Fixing the National Flood Insurance Program - Heyward Room
Chair: Allison Dean Love (SC Insurance News Service)
Presenter: David Conrad (National Wildlife Federation)
Eli Lehrer (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Daniel Sutter (University of Texas – Pan American)
Lisa Jones (SC Department of Natural Resources)
Bradley Kading (Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Break

6:00pm – 8:00pm Dinner - Ocean Front Pavilion

Friday September 19th:

8:00am - 12:00pm Registration: Location: Archer Foyer

8:00am - 9:00am Breakfast Buffet -Barnwell Room

9:00am - 10:00am Panel 2: Modeling Perspectives -Archer Room
Chair: Raymond J. Lehmann (A.M. Best)
Dail Rowe (Weather Predict Consulting)
Michael Young (Risk Management Solutions, Inc)
Karen Clark (Karen Clark & Company)

10:00am - 12:30pm Workshop 3: Helping People of Modest Means - Heyward Room
Chair: Arin Greenwood
Presenter: Leslie Chapman-Henderson (F.L.A.S.H)
Michael Armstrong (International Codes Council)
Steve Weinstein (Renaissance Reinsurance)
Dennis A. Ross (FL State Representative)

or

10:00am - 12:30pm Workshop 4: Fixing State Wind Pools
Elliot/Drayton Rooms
Chair: Eli Lehrer
Presenter: David Marlett (Appalachian State University)
D. Alan Hays (FL State Representative)
Lee Nye (VA Property Insurance Association or FAIR plan)
Lawrence Powell (University of Arkansas)
Dascheil Propes (Johnson and Johnson)
Smitty Harrison (South Carolina Wind & Hail Underwriting Association)
Dennis Burke (Reinsurance Association of America)

10:45-11:15 Morning Break

12:30pm - 1:00pm Lunch Buffet - Barnwell Room

1:00pm - 2:00pm Final Panel: How Can We Help Consumers? -Archer Room
Chair: Scott Richardson
Steve Pociask (American Consumer Institute)
Dennis A. Ross (FL State Representative)
Eric Nelson (The Travelers Companies)
Susan Lynn (TN State Representative)
Michelle Minton (Competitive Enterprise Institute)

2:00pm - 3:00pm Happy Hour - Archer Foyer
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