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Staff
specialists from AAIS and The Hartford Steam
Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co. (HSB) will conduct a joint
Web-based seminar Feb. 2 on identifying and insuring equipment breakdown
exposures in agriculture. The seminar will begin at 1 p.m. Central time (2
p.m. Eastern) and last approximately one hour.
AAIS
and HSB recently collaborated on development of equipment breakdown
coverage parts for the AAIS Farmowners,
Farm Properties, and Agricultural
Output Programs. Companies affiliated with AAIS for use of those
programs can sign up for the seminar here 
The
seminar presenters will be:
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Kristi
Roberge, HSB assistant vice president for underwriting; and
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Deborah
Summerlin, AAIS vice president for insurance lines.
Companies affiliated with AAIS for its inland
marine programs will receive a free copy of the latest Inland
Marine Cause of Loss Report with their Jan. 14 bulletins.
Issued annually by AAIS, the report provides data on
premiums and losses for more than 40 classes of inland marine insurance.
The latest edition provides data for the year 2003 and cumulative results
for the period 1999-2003.
For each class, losses are categorized by nine causes
of loss: fire; extended coverage perils; collision; burglary and robbery;
theft and disappearance; breakage, collapse, and landslide; water damage
and flood; marine perils; and all others.
AAIS member companies who are not affiliated for
inland marine can order a copy of the report for $100; companies not
affiliated with AAIS can order a copy for $200. To order a copy of the
report, contact Rick Maka, director of marketing, at rickm@AAISonline.com
People who sign up for the 2005 AAIS
Annual Conference by Feb. 11 will receive a discount on the
registration fee.
Under the theme "Getting it Right!," this
year's conference is April 10-12 at L'Auberge Del Mar Resort and Spa, Del
Mar, Cal., just north of San Diego. The business sessions address:
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Insurance Deregulation, featuring former
NAIC president Terri Vaughan and Joan Lamm-Tennant, president of
General Re Capital Consultants
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Crisis Leadership, featuring Steven Fink,
veteran of the Three Mile Island crisis and author of a seminal book
on crisis management
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Catastrophe Exposures, featuring Paul
VanderMarck, executive vice president of RMS, Inc.; Dr. Peter Hoppe, a
geo-scientist with Munich Re,;and attorney Ron Robinson, who is
involved in terrorism issues
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Strategic Underwriting, featuring Deborah
Smallwood of the Tower Group drawing on that firm's study of
property/casualty underwriting strategies
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Engaging Employees, featuring Towers Perrin
consultant Jean Chiang drawing on that firm's global survey of the
factors that make employees more productive
For more information on the conference, contact Joseph
Harrington, director of corporate communications, at joeh@AAISonline.com
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