The Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) announces the conference line-up for the CICA 2013 International Conference 10-12 March at the Westin Mission Hills Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, California.
Dennis Harwick, CICA’s president, said: “When the CICA Program Committee started putting the 2013 International Conference together, everyone was wondering what was just over the horizon in this era of change -- so that is where we are focusing during the CICA 2013 International Conference – new horizons.”
The conference opens with a keynote address by demographer and forecaster Ken Gronbach, who will speak on the topic “Charting the Course through Demographic Change".
New tax issues such as procurement taxes, regulatory issues, and NRRA will be addressed by Kenneth Levinson and Jason Kimpel, partners at Faegre Baker Daniels and Michael Lusk, vice president of insurance and risk management at Archer Daniels Midland Company, amongst others.
“Value Driven Enterprise Risk Management for Captives” will be discussed by Jeffrey Driver, EVP/Chief Risk Officer at Stanford University Medical Indemnity Trust; John Celona, of Stanford University Medical Center; and Edward Hall, also of Stanford’s Medical Center.
Dave Provost, deputy commissioner of captive insurance for the State of Vermont; Chaz Lavelle, partner at Bingham Greenbaum Doll; Peter Kranz, SVP at Beecher Carlson, Les Boughner, executive vice president of Willis Captive Consulting will all be on the panel for successful strategies for the “exploding” small captive market.
Finally, an advanced tax update will be given by Tom Jones, partner at McDermott, Will & Emery; Bruce Wright, partner at Sutherland Ashbill & Brennan; and Rick Irvine, partner at Tax Services Limited, PwC in Bermuda.
Additional sessions cover topics such as Solvency II, captive governance, captive 101 & 102, captive best practices, and new data for the CICA captive market study.
