Katie School Financial Regulators Program

Insurance Regulators Education Foundation program for Insurance Financial Regulators will take place June 19 -24, 2022  The program is offered FREE to insurance financial examiners, analysts, and actuaries who are state employees working for insurance departments. Costs for lodging and meals are complimentary and included in program for insurance department employees and transportation expenses will be reimbursed.

To accommodate the needs of those unable to attend in-person, the initial three days of programming will be broadcast live and without charge, via the web.  Each program segment will be streamed as an individual webinar, with its own unique webinar link. 

Pre-registration is required. Simply select the segment or segments of interest to you, to register.  In keeping with the respective missions of IREF, Katie School and The Institutes Griffith Foundation, all of the webinar programming is strictly instructional in nature and does not support a position on any issues.

The Institutes Griffith Foundation values its collaborative relationship with IREF and the Katie School of Insurance at Illinois State University.

 

The topics and speakers for this year’s program will be (in order)

DAY 1

• Identifying Troubled Companies:  Pinnacle Actuarial Resources
• Loss Reserving: -Pinnacle Actuarial Resources
• ORSA- Elisabetta Russo ERM Advisor, NAIC

DAY 2

• Anatomy of an Insolvency:  Kelvin Schill, Secretary/Treasurer & Past Chair and Janis Potter, Executive Director,  Illinois Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association
• Surplus Lines Insurance:   David Ocasek, Chief Executive Officer. Surplus Line Association of Illinois
• Big Data, AI and Impact on Insurance:  Professor of Risk and Insurance, Hickman-Larson Chair in Actuarial Science, and Director MS in Business Analytics
  Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer,  Superintendent of Financial Services
  State of Rhode Island
• Insuretechs and Insurance Solvency Case examples: Eric Moser,  Chief Financial Analyst,  Illinois Department of Insurance, Patrick Hyde Chief Financial Examiner
  Office of Special Deputy for the Illinois Department of Insurance

DAY 3

• Reinsurance: E xamining Its Origins, Evolution and Impact on Solvency: William Arfanis, CFE, FLMI, MBA Division Director- Financial Regulatory Affairs, Connecticut Insurance Department
• James Hilliard, Associate Professor of Instruction, Risk, Actuarial Science and Legal Studies
• Catastrophe Resilience Council: Christopher McDaniel, President, The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative
• Captive Insurance is a Growing Area of Risk Financing that has a Unique Global Perspective.  Steve Kinion, ACI ,  Director, Bureau of Captive & Financial Insurance Products Delaware Insurance Department
• Discussion with a Director: Prospective from the Leadership Level: Dana Popish,  Director, Illinois Department of Insurance

The 4^th and 5^th day of the program will not be broadcast.

• Thursday, June 23^rd will be  Analysis Techniques and Financial Solvency Tools Overview presented by  Andy Daleo, P/C Financial Analysis Manager, Kansas City, MO (www.naic.org) and available only in-person.
• The program will conclude at noon on Friday June 24th. Friday morning will be Risk Assessment in Practice   Patrick McNaughton, former Chief Examiner, Washington State,  Office of the Insurance Commissioner