6th Annual Insurance Reform Summit Agenda

March 4, 2009

Ronald Reagan Building  Rotunda Room (via 1300 Penn. Ave. Door)

Washington, D.C.

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.

 Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

8:30 a.m.

 INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS

        Elizabeth A. Coit, Executive Director, Networks 

        Financial Institute at Indiana State University

 

8:40- 10:00 a.m.   LEGISLATIVE/FEDERAL REGULATORY PERSPECTIVES

  Introductions: Robert J. Kabel, Senior Advisor, B&D

  Consulting: Maria Berthoud, SVP, B&D Consulting    

        

         U.S. Rep. Melissa L. Bean (D-IL), Member of the

         House Financial Services Committee, including the

         Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and

         Government Sponsored Enterprises

 

         U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL), Ranking

         Minority Member of the House Financial Services

         Committee, and Ex-Officio Member of the  

         Capital Markets, Insurance and Government

         Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee

 

10:00– 11:00 a.m.

  RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES

  Introductions:  Dr. Daniel Bradley, President,

  Indiana State University

  •  Therese M. Vaughan, Chief Executive Officer of 

         the National Association of   

         Insurance Commissioners and Former

         Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Risk 

         Management, Drake University: Implications of

         Solvency II' for U.S. Insurance Competitiveness  

        and Regulatory Reform

  •  Martin F. Grace, James S. Kemper Professor of

        Risk Management and Insurance, Georgia State

        University: Three Issues from the Recent  

        Financial Crisis for the Insurance Reform Debate

 

 11:00 a.m. –

 12:00 p.m.

  PERSPECTIVES ON THE FINANCIAL PROTECTION OF

  CONSUMERS WHEN THE SHIP GOES DOWN

  Introductions:  John Tatom, Ph.D., Director 

  of Research, Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State

  University

  • Scott Harrington, PhD, Alan B. Miller Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • Peter G. Gallanis, President, National Organization of
    Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations
  • Roger H. Schmelzer, President, National
    Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds

 

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch Break

 

12:30 – 2:00 p.m. INSURANCE REGULATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES, REACTIONS, AND PRIORITIES

Moderated by Charles T. Richardson, Baker & Daniels LLP  

  • Steve Bartlett, President and Chief Executive Officer of The
    Financial Services Roundtable
  • Charles Chamness, President and Chief Executive Officer of
    the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
  • Governor Frank Keating, President and Chief
    Executive Officer of the American Council of Life Insurers
  • Robert A. Rusbuldt, Chief Executive Officer of the     
    Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, Inc.

 

    2:00 p.m.

       Concluding Remarks

           By Elizabeth A. Coit