Maine Event Speaker Presentations

Maine Event 2014

• The CEO’s View
  presented by Michael DeKoning, President & Chief Executive Officer, Munich American Reassurance Co.
• Economic Outlook
  presented by Wes Moss, Chief Investment Strategist, Capital Investment Advisors (CIA)
• Legislative Trends
  presented by Winthrop Cashdollar, Executive Director for Product Policy, AHIP
• Legislative Trends
  presented by Roberta Meyer, Vice President & Associate General Counsel, ACLI
• Underwriting Break Out Talk Shop Session
  
• Impact of Exchanges on the Ancillary Market
  presented by Howard Lapsley, Partner, Health & Life Sciences, The Oliver Wyman Group
• Three Big Ideas in Probability
  presented by Rick Leavitt, Senior Vice President, Actuarial, Smith Group

Maine Event 2013

• Opening Presentation: Strategic Futures
  presented by David Zach, Futurist
• Group Life and Disability Insurance Trends
  presented by JR Shamley, ASA, SVP National Practice Leader – Life and Disability, Aon Hewitt
• Paradigm Shifts in Group Underwriting
  presented by Ron Schaber, 2nd VP, Middle Market Underwriting, Munich Re, and
  Greg Brandner, AVP & Actuary, Munich Re
• Social Media Practices in Insurance: Social Tech Case Studies and What’s Next
  presented by Mike Wise, President, WebWisedom LLC
• Yields are Low, Jobs are Still Scarce: Challenges In The Economic Climate For Group Insurers
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  presented by Roger C. Tutterow, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Mercer University
• Disability Insurance and Healthcare Reform: Evidence from Massachusetts
  presented by Nicole Maestas, Ph.D., Senior Economist, RAND

Maine Event 2012

• NCCI Workers Compensation Frequency Update 2012
  presented by Jim Davis, Director and Actuary, NCCI Holdings, Inc.
• SSDI Reform: The Role for Private Insurance
  presented by Richard Burkhauser, Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis, Cornell University Department of Economics

Maine Event 2011

• The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options
  presented by David Autor, Professor and Associate Chair, MIT Department of Economics
• Health Reform and Coverage Expansion: Profiling Health Attitudes and Behaviors
  presented by Tony Glebe, Vice President – Analytic Consulting and Research Services, Thomson Reuters
• THE GREAT RECESSION AND THE NOT-SO-GREAT RECOVERY: WHY? WHAT’S NEXT?
  presented by Nicholas S. Perna, Managing Director & Chief Economist, Perna Associates, LLC
• Group LIFE: Trends, tools, hot topics
  presented by Libby Corcillo, Steve Rulis, Leo Tinkham, Munich American Reassurance Co.
• Trends in Filing Asset-Based Insurance Products: The Interstate Compact
  presented by Karen Z. Schutter, Executive Director, Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission

Maine Event 2010

• Can a Recovery Be Sustained?
  presented by Ken Mayland, President, ClearView Economics, LLC
• Public Insurance and the National Debt
  presented by Darius Lakdawalla
  Director of Research Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California
  Managing Director, Precision Health Economics
• Innovation in Group Insurance?
  presented by Rick Leavitt, Vice President Actuarial, Smith Group
• Health Care Reformand Beyond - Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges
  presented by Bill Weller, Omega Squared, Inc.

Maine Event 2009

• Rational Choice in an Random World: An Actuarial Perspective on Decision Making
  presented by Rick Leavitt, Vice President Actuarial, Smith Group
• How Sales Reps Can Differentiate Themselves in the Market
  presented by Barry E. Lundquist, CLU, Principal, Eastport Marketing Group
• Employee Benefits Trends
  presented by John Cassell, Senior Partner, Spring Consulting Group
• Economic Trends in the Midst of "The Great Recession": The View From The Bottom?
  presented by Michael Donihue, Prefessor of Economics and Dean of Faculty at Colby College

Maine Event 2008

• Reinsurers & Insurers – A changing world
  presented by Mike DeKoning, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, President & CEO, Munich American Reassurance Company
• Enhancing Execution: "A Consultant's View for Increasing Success in the Benefits Marketplace"
  presented by Thomas J. Cox, CLU, Health and Welfare Practice Leader, Cambridge Advisory Group
• Economic Trends in a Changing Political Landscape
  presented by Michael Donihue, Professor of Economics at Colby College
• The Limits of Actuarial Forecasting and Decision Making
  presented by Rick Leavitt, Vice President Actuarial, Smith Group

Maine Event 2007

• Understanding and Predicting Increases in SSDI Enrollment – Lessons for Group Disability Insurance
  presented by Mark Duggan, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Brookings Institution, and National Bureau of Economic Research
• Medical Review of Subjective Claims
  presented by J. Peter Strang, MD, University Disability Consortium, Inc.
• How to Become a Finalist: Disability and Leave Administration Procurement
  presented by Phil Lacy, Senior Consultant, Towers Perrin

Maine Event 2006

• Fortune Magazine - 100 Best Companies To Work For: Lessons for Group LTD Risk Management
  presented by Suzanne Vickberg, PhD, Great Place to Work Institute
• Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance: Trends in Work-Limiting Disability
  presented by Andrew Samwick, Dartmouth College and NBER (Andrew Samwick bio; NBER Working Paper)
• Disability Insurance Claims Litigation Update: a Plaintiff Attorney Perspective
  presented by Mark DeBofsky, Daley, DeBofsky & Bryant
• Actuarial Trends in Group Disability Insurance
  presented by Rick Leavitt, Smith Group
• Fortune Magazine - America's Most Admired Companies: Lessons for Group Disability Insurance Risk Management
  presented by Mark Royal, Hay Group
• Trends in Group Disability Insurance: A Financial Analyst's Perspective
  presented by Keith Walsh, Citigroup

Maine Event 2005

• The Future of Broker Distribution
  presented by Dana MacKinnon, Business Lawyer, Group Division, Hartford Life Insurance Company
• Risk Factors in the Very Small Employer Disability Market
  presented by Kelly Hayes, CEBS, FLMI, Second Vice President, Standard Insurance Company
• Disease Trends
  presented by Darius Lakdawalla, Economist, RAND Corporation
• Moving Away from Price Competition in the Group Disability Insurance Market
  presented by Barry Lundquist, Principal, Eastport Marketing Group
  and Gerard (Gerry) J. Sunderland, Vice President, Sherwood Management Group
• Best Practices in Disability Claims Management
  presented by Maureen Keeley, Vice President, Disability Benefit Center, UnumProvident; Richard Lang, Vice President, Business Practices and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, UnumProvident; and Cheryl Greaney, Vice President, The Benefits Center Policies and Practices, UnumProvident

Maine Event 2004

• Disability Growth: Trends, Causes and Consequences
  presented by Darius Lakdawalla, Economist, RAND Corporation
• Definition of Earnings for Business Owners: Why it Matters
  Group Disability Insurance Definition of Earnings Survey: High Level Results
  presented by Nancy Panzer-Howell, Larry Leibson, Mike Horn, Assurant Employee Benefits