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2009 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar Presentations

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks & General Session 1
Performance Testing For Claim Reserves: How Robust Are Your Selected Methods?
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 1
BAS-1: Basic Track I - Considerations in Evaluating Reserves
BAS-1: Basic Track I - Considerations in Evaluating Reserves
PD-5: Building Communication Skills, Relationships and Confidence
FR-7: Current Developments Regarding Tax Issues Pertinent to P&C Actuaries
LOB-1: Current Issues and Trends in Medical Malpractice
PD-1: Ethical Case Studies from the Course on Professional Development
INT-1: Intermediate Track I - Considerations in Evaluating Changing Conditions
FR-1: Risk Transfer Testing - Guidance and Practice
ST-3: Simultaneous Modeling of Paid and Incurred Losses
VR-4: The Very Very Basic Guide to Reserve Variability / Ranges
12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Luncheon Keynote Speaker: Stephen D'Arcy, University of Illinois
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 2
ST-1: Asbestos Litigation - Better, But Not Over
BAS-2: Basic Track II - Comparison of Techniques
BAS-2: Basic Track II - Comparison of Techniques
LOB-8: Current Issues and Trends in D&O and E&O
LOB-13: Current Issues and Trends in Personal Auto Insurance Reserving
ERM-3: Capital Management of all Long Tail Liabilities Including Reserve Risk and Underwriting risk
INT-2: Intermediate Track II - Investigating and Detecting Change
LOB-7: Medical Cost Trends in Workers Compensation and Healthcare Insurance Systems
PD-2: The ABCD and The Reserving Actuary
LOB-2: Workers' Compensation : What About Frequency?
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 3
PD-3: As a Reserving /Opining Actuary Do You Know Your ASOP’s?”
BAS-3: Basic Track III - You Set the Reserve!
BAS-3: Basic Track III - You Set the Reserve!
LOB-3: Commercial Lines - A Potpourri of Reserving Issues
ERM-1: Enterprise Risk Management : What Have You Done for me Lately?
VR-3: Where’s the Beef? Do Mack and Bootstrap Yield Under-Nourished Reserve Ranges?
INT-3: Intermediate Track III - Case Study
INTNL-1: Non-Life Insurance in Latin America and India
R-3: Primary Insurer vs. Reinsurer Reserving
LOB-5: Workers Compensation Loss Reserving - Estimating Layoff Impacts

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
General Session 2
Dirty Data: Anathema to Best Estimates!
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 4
FR-2: 10K And MD&A Disclosures - What The SEC Wants To See And Why
LOB-9: Financial Guaranty Loss Reserving
ST-4: General Session 1 Follow up: Performance Testing for Claim Reserves
INT-1: Intermediate Track I - Considerations in Evaluating Changing Conditions
R-1: Measuring Risk Transfer and Other Elusive Tasks
PD-4: Mock Trial - How to be a Good Actuarial Witness
INTNL-2: Solvency II Update – How Does it Work, and Where Does it Stand?
FR-8: The Shoe Yet to Drop: Inflation Risk and the Property/Casualty Industry
VR-2: Instructional Approach to Mack and Bootstrap Models (Part 1)
VR-1: An Easy Way to get a Range Around a Reserve Using Historical Reserve Estimate Changes
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 5
FR-3: Update on International and U.S. Insurance Accounting Issues Including the Latest on Loss Reserve Discounting
R-2: Are you Properly Calculating your Ceded Reinsurance Loss Reserves?
FR-4: Case Studies of Problem Situations Arising in the Actuarial Opinion and Report
ERM-4: ERM in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
INT-2: Intermediate Track II - Investigating and Detecting Change
LOB-10: Mortgage Insurance Reserving in a Stressed Market
LOB-12: Title Insurance Loss Reserving - Historical Results and Emerging Trends
LOB-4: Workers Compensation - How Long is the Tail?
VR-2: Instructional Approach to Mack and Bootstrap Models (Part 2)
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions 6
FR-5: Are your Opinions and Actuarial Reports Meeting the Expectation of Regulators and Others?
LOB-11: Homeowners Insurance-Key Reserving Issues
INT-3: Intermediate Track III - Case Study
LOB-6: Managing the Unemployment Risk - As a Public Program, a Private Necessity or a Commercial Opportunity
FR-6: NAIC Risk-Based Examinations
ST-2: Open Source Loss Simulation Model
FR-9: U.S. Financial Regulatory Changes on the Horizon - Model Audit Rule and Solvency Initiatives of the NAIC
ERM-2: Which “X” Marks the Spot – An ERM Case Study
VR-5: Practical Aspects of Using Variability / Range Results