There are still some rooms available under the AAIS room
block at the Mills House Hotel, the principal setting for the
AAIS
Main Event, April 22-24 in Charleston, S.C. Anyone who
has not reserved a room can do so using the
room reservation form.
Registration for the event itself is still open. To
register,
The event features Tommy Thompson, former U.S.
Cabinet Secretary and Governor of Wisconsin, as the keynote speaker,
plus other leading speakers, a CEO panel, and roundtable discussions.
For more information, contact Joseph Harrington,
AAIS director of corporate communications, at
joeh@AAISonline.com, or by
calling 800/564-AAIS.
AAIS forms have been chosen as the standards used to
teach the inland marine segment of a new insurance designation:
Certified Construction Insurance Specialist (CCIS).
Forms found in the Builders Risk, Contractors
Equipment, and Installation Floater sections of the AAIS Inland
Marine Guide will be covered in part one of the CCIS curriculum in
the upcoming Contractors
& Builders Conferences being held in five locations. The Guide
is the leading industry resource for forms, rating procedures,
underwriting guidelines, and other information for the nonfiled classes
of inland marine insurance.
The inland marine segment will be taught by Marjorie
Segale, vice president of the Insurance Skills Center, Huntington Beach,
Calif., the sponsor of the conferences. AAIS has been a co-sponsor of
the center's Agribusiness Conference, and AAIS materials are used in the
curriculum for the center's Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist
designation.
For more information, go to
www.insuranceskillscenter.com, or call 800-375-8704.
AAIS will be responding on behalf of its affiliates
in Michigan to a request from the Michigan Office of Financial and
Insurance Services. The office asks that policy forms be amended to
reflect statutory requirements for "notice of loss" for liability claims
and the time allowed for insureds to initiate lawsuits against their
property insurers.
The office has asked that the changes be implemented
by July 1, 2007. AAIS will soon submit filings and issue bulletins for
all affected programs.
AAIS has distributed new sample disclosure notices
for the Motor Truck Cargo (MTC) class of the Inland Marine Guide.
The notices reflect recent updates to the MTC forms, but are only
intended as guides for companies to use. Each company must develop its
own notices to disclose any significant changes in coverage.
For information on affiliating with AAIS for use of
the Inland Marine Guide, contact Rick Maka, director of marketing, at
rickm@AAISonline.com.
Licensed insurers that wrote commercial property or
businessowners insurance in Texas in 2006 have until April 16 to respond
to a special call for data.
The department says that the call, issued in a
recent
bulletin, is necessary to calculate participation shares in
the event of assessments by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
Forms for responding to the data call are attached to the bulletin.
