Head to the Waterside for the 2002 Ratemaking Seminar

by Klayton Southwood, Member, Committee on the Ratemaking Seminar

The 2002 Ratemaking Seminar will be held at the Tampa Marriott Waterside in Tampa, Florida (pictured right) on March 6-8, 2002. The program, the venue, and the Wednesday through Friday format should make for the best Ratemaking Seminar ever! Promotional materials and information on the seminar will be available at the beginning of next year.

The general session will focus on some insurance implications of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Concurrent sessions will include an introductory track covering standard ratemaking procedures for personal lines coverages, plus advanced sessions on data management; financial and dynamic financial analysis; workers compensation; commercial lines; personal lines; and property, regulatory, and reinsurance issues. Call papers from the Ratemaking and Data Management Research Committees will be presented.

Many topics will be featured, such as the costs of bad data, privacy issues, stochastic ratemaking techniques, pricing excess workers compensation, workers compensation residual market/state fund issues, captive pricing, changes in homeowners classification and rating variables, and professionalism. Look for information via the CAS Web Site and in the mail in late December or early January.