DRAFT
SITA 2021 Conference Agenda
(As of 7/23/2021)
Conference Attire:
Attendees– Smart casual to business casual
Presenters– Business casual
Monday, September 27
12:30 P.M.
• Golf, Patriots Point Links on Charleston Harbor
3:00 – 7:30 P.M.
• Registration, Topsail Lounge
6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
• Evening Reception, Beach Club Lawn
Tuesday, September 28
7:30 – 3:30 P.M.
• Registration, Topsail Lounge
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.
• Breakfast, Bridge Bar
8:30 A.M.
• Welcome Remarks
Russ Dubisky, Executive Director, S.C. Insurance Association
Yacht Club
8:45 – 9:45 A.M.
• Speaker
Ray Farmer, Director, S.C. Department of Insurance
9:45 A.M.
• Speaker
Matt Lehman, President, National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL)
10:15 A.M.
• Break
10:30 A.M.
• Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in windshields
Scot Zajic, Vice President of Government Affairs, Safelite
12:00 P.M.
Lunch – Climate Change Regulations and the impact on the re/insurance industry and other regulatory updates, Bridge Bar
• Credit for reinsurance – reciprocal reinsurers – law, reg, implementation by September 2022
• Private flood insurance – options to facilitate private flood insurance to give consumers choices
Dennis Burke, VP State Relations, Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
1:15 – 2:15 P.M.
• “Insurance Legislation Meets Social Justice & Pandemic Politics”: This panel discussion focuses on how the changing societal lens of unfair discrimination & the COVID economic fallout are challenging insurance practices and risk-based pricing.
Moderator: Carole Walker, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Insurance Association
Panelists: Kenton Brine, Executive Director, Northwest Insurance Council; Chris Longeway, Head of Central States Legislative Affairs and Public Policy, Farmers Insurance; Joe Thesing, Asst. V.P. Government & Industry Relations, USAA; Jon Burton, Managing Director State Government Relations, LexisNexis
2:15 – 2:30 P.M.
• Break
2:30 – 3:30 P.M.
• CEO Session (Discussion led by Rex Frazier CEO, Personal Insurance Federation of California)
5:30 P.M.
• Transportation to Dinner
6:00 P.M.
• Reception, Halls Chophouse
7:00 P.M.
• Dinner, Halls Chophouse
Wednesday, September 29
7:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
• Registration, Topsail Lounge
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.
• Breakfast, Bridge Bar
8:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
• General Session, Yacht Club
8:30 – 9:30 A.M.
• Rob Galbraith, Author, “The End of Insurance As We Know It”
9:30 – 10:30 A.M.
• Bob Hartwig, Director, Risk and Uncertainty Management Center, U of SC
10:30 A.M.
• Break
10:45 – 11:45 A.M.
• “Enhancing insurer engagement & advocacy in state legislators”
o John Miletti, Vice President and Senior Counsel, Travelers Insurance (moderator)
o Vickie Sawyer, N.C. State Senator – 34th District
o Joe Stewart, Vice President for Government Affairs, Independent Insurance Agents of N.C.
o Rich Golick, Southeast Regional Counsel, Allstate
o Lee Parsley, General Counsel, Texans for Legal Reform
12:00 P.M.
• Lunch with speaker, Chuck Chamness, CEO, NAMIC
1:15 – 1:45 P.M.
• Update on Insurance Fraud
Alan Haskins, Vice President of Government Affairs, National Insurance Crime Bureau
1:45 – 2:15 P.M.
• Social and regular inflation: Effects on Insurance
Lars Powell, Director, Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research, University of Alabama
2:15 – 2:30 P.M.
• Break
2:30 – 3:30 P.M.
• “Expansion of eligible diagnosis for medicinal marijuana and legal use cannabis and insurance coverage for the costs of medical use of cannabis”
Description:
As states expand the eligible diagnosis for medicinal marijuana and legalize adult-use cannabis, state insurance trade associations can play a key role with their members to prepare for the inevitable: providing coverage for the costs of medical use of cannabis. Whether it’s reimbursing an injured worker’s comp claim or covering the treatment for an auto accident victim, admitted carriers need to be thinking about how they will provide coverage when the Federal government or Congress makes accommodations and states look to mandate coverage. This panel will prepare the state trades to spark up a conversation with their members.
Moderator:
Christine O’Brien, President, Insurance Council of New Jersey
Panelists: TBD
Thursday, September 30
7:30 – 11:00 A.M.
• Registration, Topsail Lounge
7:30 – 8:30 A.M.
• Breakfast, Bridge Bar
8:30 – 10:00 A.M.
• General Session, Yacht Club
8:30 – 9:30 A.M.
• Group discussion: Where public relations and lobbying overlap – Best practices and test cases
9:30 – 10:00 A.M.
• Preview of SITA Conference 2022
