CLRS To Be Held in Atlanta This September

The CAS, American Academy of Actuaries, and the Conference of Consulting Actuaries have teamed up once again to co-sponsor the 1997 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS) in Atlanta, September 29-30. Held at the Westin Peachtree Plaza, the CLRS will focus on discussion and presentation of important issues in loss reserving. The Seminar offers basic, intermediate, and advanced topic sessions for those with varying levels of knowledge of loss reserve principles.

Among the new sessions for the 1997 CLRS, Dennis Chookaszian, CEO of CNA, and Robert Steinberg, CEO of Reliance Insurance Companies, will present their views in the general session, "The Property/Casualty Insurance Industry - A View from the Top," and Linda Lamel, Esq., executive director of Risk and Insurance Management Society, will speak at a luncheon on the first day of the seminar. "Personal Auto Reserving in a Changing Claims Environment," "Neural Networks," and "Data Quality, Emerging Technologies, and the Loss Reserving Actuary" are just a few of many new sessions offered at this year's CLRS.

Other CLRS session topics include reinsurance reserving, environmental/mass tort, dynamic financial analysis, and workers compensation. CLRS special topics sessions offer a wide range of subjects of interest to a general audience, including reserve analysts at all experience levels.

In addition, the CLRS will feature four sessions devoted to the Call Paper Program on measuring the performance of reserving methods. Call paper authors will present their work, which compare traditional and nontraditional techniques. The Call Paper Program submissions were published in the 1997 CAS Summer Forum, Volume 1, which was mailed in August.

Registration fees are $500 ($694 Canadian) for members and students of the three sponsoring organizations and $600 ($832 Canadian) for non-members if received on or before September 2. Fees after September 2 are $550 ($763 Canadian) for members and students and $650 ($900 Canadian) for non-members. Government actuaries receive a 30 percent discount off the applicable registration fee. Continuing education credit is available for seminar attendees.

For more information, consult the CLRS Preliminary Program, which was mailed to CAS members in August, or contact the CAS Office at (703) 276-3100 or by e-mail at amalone@casact.org.