MARK YOUR CALENDAR
2008 CICA Fall Seminar
September 25, 2008
Washington, D.C.

Annually the Fall Seminar is an intensive one-day seminar featuring...

• high-level, peer-to-peer networking targeted to captive owners, potential captive owners, risk managers, and captive managers.
• interactive, information-packed educational sessions on the most important topics and issues facing the captive and risk retention industries.
• free registration for CICA members

Registration and event information for the 2008 Fall Seminar will be available in the coming months. For questions on the Fall Seminar, call CICA at 952-928-4655 or email CICA.

Discover what happened last year at the Fall Seminar, held October 9, 2007 in Dallas, Texas:

Captives: What Really Works
CICA's 2007 Fall Seminar program offered a fascinating new format. Participants learned personally from successful practitioners as they presented case studies about what really works in the captive industry, finding out first-hand about best practices from a variety of successful captives and hearing ideas about how the industry is evolving.

What's more, CICA’s Fall Seminar continued its tradition of packing hard-hitting, in-depth education into one day ...so participants can meet and exchange ideas with the top experts in captive insurance and be back to work the next day without missing a beat.

The 2007 Fall Seminar featured case studies on ...

STICO Mutual Company
Winner: 2007 CICA Outstanding Captive Award
STICO Mutual Insurance Company, a risk retention group, was formed in Vermont in 1988 as an association captive to insure the manufacturers of underground storage tanks. In 1997 STICO Mutual opted to be fronted in various states, but in 2002 converted to a risk retention group and registered in all 50 states. STICO president/CEO Brian Donovan discussed the processes that have led to STICO Mutual’s loss ratio consistently being below 30% and returning unneeded premium back to its policyholders

Associated Contractors Insurance Group
American Contractors Insurance Group (ACIG), a Bermuda-based captive established is a captive success story and a case study of best practices at work. ACIG has licensed itself in 49 states, thereby eliminating fronting carriers and the associated expenses. It worked with members to reduce workers compensation claims from 1,200 annually on a volume-adjusted basis in 1990 to about 300 a year. ACIG executive vice president Michael O’Neill shared his expertise includes the areas of captive management, risk management, retention analysis, contractual risk transfer, development of specialized coverage, and risk funding programs.

Exchange Indemnity Company, a Verizon captive
Verizon manager of captive operations Robert Flannery discussed the more unusual lines of business that he writes among Verizon's three captives, as well as third-party risk and best practices.

Shell Oil Company
Skip Neilson, downstream team lead for the Americas at Shell Oil Company explored the decision making process on adding employee benefits to a captive structure, along with the other challenges of managing a successful captive.

Spectra Energy
Derick Smith, director of captive insurance for Spectra Energy’s Risk Management & Insurance Group Derick Smith will talk about Spectra Energy’s captive subsidiary, Alpha, and the in's-and-out's of spinning off from a larger organization. Spectra Energy is one of North America’s premier natural gas infrastructure companies.

Sierra Land Group
Dirk Heim, vice president and risk manager for Sierra Land Group talked about the innovative uses of Sierra Land Group’s captive, Meridian, as a profit center as well as using it for workers’ compensation, general liability, and third party risk.


2007 Fall Seminar was exclusively sponsored by:

              

For questions on the Fall Seminar, call CICA at 952-928-4655 or email CICA.


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“The CICA Fall Seminar sessions were on the mark. I came away with important information that has a direct application to my business. This was an extremely worthwhile use of my time.”

Terry Gilbreth
Vice President Risk Management
Safeway, Inc.
Pleasanton, CA