The City of Brotherly Love Hosts 2003 Reinsurance Seminar

by Steven Petlick, Chairman, Joint Program Committee for Reinsurance Seminars

The Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia will host the 2003 CAS Reinsurance Seminar, June 1-3. A welcome reception will kick off the seminar on Sunday evening with general sessions and concurrent sessions on Monday and Tuesday. There will be a buffet dinner on Monday night. A block of seats has been reserved for the June 1 Philadelphia Phillies vs. Montréal Expos baseball game, starting at 1:35 p.m.

The general sessions will include a discussion of the reinsurance business from the perspective of the investment community and a session on terrorism. Topics to be covered in the concurrent sessions include finite reinsurance, commercial umbrella insurance, workers compensation catastrophe, specialty lines (A&H and surety), marine & aviation, medical malpractice insurance, D&O insurance, loss trend projections, property per risk, ceded reinsurance, and commutation pricing. There will be "practical track" (formerly entitled intermediate track) sessions covering various aspects of casualty and property reinsurance pricing. There will also be a number of reinsurance research committee call paper sessions as well as a "speaker's corner."

More information on the seminar has been mailed to members and is also available on the CAS Web Site.