Agenda for the 2017 Fall Collaborative

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S C H E D U L E

The Connecticut Captive Insurance Association

The 2017 Collaborative on Captive Insurance

The Sheraton Hotel

700 East Main Street, Stamford, CT 06901

“Creating the New Captive Revolution” 

October 25, 2017

3:00 - 3:45

Captives 101 – What is Captive Insurance?

- How do Captives create value for your company?

- What’s the cost benefit vs. traditional insurance

3:45 – 5:00

Why Haven’t You Formed a Captive Yet? 

An Interactive Discussion on the Benefits of Captive insurance for Your Business

Speakers:

Janet Grace - State of CT Department of Insurance

Rocco Mancini - Marsh 

Colin Finch - Milliman

Alicia Miller - Crowe Horwath

Moderator: Michael Maglaras

5:00 - 6:30

The Idea Factory:  What Are the Challenging Questions of Our Time? 

A Roundtable Discussion on Innovation in Connecticut's Captive Marketplace

Topics include:

- Can We Fix 831(b) Captives?

- Why Can’t We Write Direct Workers’ Compensation in Captives?

- InsurTech: Being Captive to the Future

- Cyber Liability: Why worry?

Speakers:

Michael Maglaras

Todd Cunningham

Stephen Vina

Dawne Davenport

Michael Serricchio

Ali Savafi

Stacey Brown

Moderators:

Thomas Hodson

Janet Grace

Coordinators:

Glenn Saslow - 831(b)

Michael Maglaras - Workers Compensation

Michael Serricchio - Cyber Liability

Stephen DiCenso - InsurTech

6:30 - 7:30     

Cocktail Reception with Exhibitors - Sponsored by Michael Maglaras & Company

October 26, 2017

7:30 - 9:00       

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking with Exhibitors

7:30 - 8:30

Networking Breakfast: Meet the Connecticut Insurance Department Regulators

Meet and Greet Connecticut’s Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade, Captive Division Director, Janet Grace, and CCIA Board Chair, Michael Maglaras

8:30 - 9:00

The State of the State - Connecticut’s Evolving Captive Marketplace

Speakers:

Katharine Wade, Insurance Commissioner, State of Connecticut

Catharine Smith, Commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development

Legislative Members from the State of Connecticut Insurance Committee

9:00 - 10:15

Moving the Ball Forward - Idea Factory Breakouts

A.  The Small Business Captive Revolution

- How to form these captives to accomplish the real purpose of risk transfer

- What regulators will look for in Small Business Captive applications and business plans

- How Small Business Captives can be used to improve the functioning of your insurance portfolio and allow you to assume risk in a controlled and affordable way

Speakers: 

Michael Serricchio

Glenn Saslow

Dawne Davenport

Cindy Lyford

Moderator: Glenn Saslow

Coordinator: Glenn Saslow

B.  Redefining Workers’ Compensation in Captives

- Whether captives should be permitted to write statutory benefit coverage

- The ideal partnership between captives and the commercial workers’ compensation underwriting community

- Ideas about how to “get it right” when it comes to the integration of on or off the job disability

Speakers:

Michael Maglaras

Brian First

Steve DiCenso

Janet Grace

Moderator: Michael Maglaras

Coordinator: Michael Maglaras

10:15 – 10:30

Coffee and Networking

10:30 - 11:15

Moving the Ball Forward - Idea Factory Breakouts

A.  Cyber Liability in Captives: Why Worry?

- The current cyber security marketplace, how it functions, and what the underwriting challenges are

- Expert perspective on the growing, and challenging, international cyber threat

- Whether this is a good time for captives to augment available capacity in a marketplace already challenged to meet demand

Speakers:

Michael Serricchio

Stephen Vina

Todd Cunningham

Moderator: Michael Serricchio

Coordinator: Rocco Mancini

B.  Disrupting the Market: The InsurTech Captive Revolution

- What is InsurTech?  How does it work? How is it expected to change the future?

- What can captives learn from commercial insurance market innovation and investment alternatives?

- What will the captive transaction of the future look like, and how will captive owners meet the internal challenges of managing risk in a world dominated by “virtual insurance”?

Speakers:

Stacey Brown

Ali Savafi

Moderator: Stephen DiCenso

11:15 - 12:00

Keynote Speaker: Glenn Finch

12:00 - 1:30

Buffet Lunch, Networking, and “Meet the CCIA Board”

1:30 - 3:00

Dialogue, Debate, Disruption:  Incubating the Captive of the Future

- Is cryptocurrency on your horizon?... accepting captive premiums and paying captive claims through the InsurTech window

- Who is ahead of the curve on innovation?... how captives and the commercial market will forge new partnerships as the world’s insurance needs change

- Insuring your customers, partners, supplliers… is third party business in captives the future of the captive movement

AND… announcing “CHIINS”…the Connecticut Hub for Innovation in Insurance!

Discussion Leaders: 

Daniel J. Labrie 
Michael Maglaras


Moderator: Tom Hodson