The $OURCE (Simulated Operating and Underwriting Results in a Competitive Environment) Game offers participants the opportunity to make realistic pooling decisions and consider causes and effects on a pool’s financial results. Participants will gain a greater understanding of business realities within the competitive insurance and pooling marketplace, and the importance of understanding financial implications of key business decisions. For pre-registered participants, the $OURCE Game will run in several sessions Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March 7.
Robert’s Rules of Order can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this entertaining and interactive two-part workshop, attendees will learn essential principles and practice the tools and techniques to use Robert’s Rules effectively for pool Board decisions. Learn how to strengthen your Board’s decision-making process, and practice difficult scenarios with fellow attendees. All content is customized to pool Boards of Directors to assure you have tools and techniques to work through relevant decisions, tricky membership conversations, and related operational matters.
This session is complimentary to the Pooling Basics series offered Tuesday.
The benefits of participating in a pool versus seeking lower-cost insurance aren’t always clear to local government bodies looking to make prudent financial decisions. That’s where member retention and engagement strategies come into play. In this session, you’ll learn how some pools have engaged face to face meeting strategies, multiple member connection points, and “big picture” conversations to effectively engage and retain their members.
This guided conversation will bring further focus to The Value of Why for your pool, helping you relate your role to the pool’s purpose, membership value, and future.
This session will share specific steps pools can implement to help their members create safer environments. Consider policies and practices you can recommend to restrict child molesters’ access and behaviors towards children through clearly defined boundaries, and significantly reduce the risk of abuse. Specific strategies to be identified include child protection focused applicant screening processes when hiring, and boundary policies for your members’ employees.
Robert’s Rules of Order can be intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this entertaining and interactive two-part workshop, attendees will learn essential principles and practice the tools and techniques to use Robert’s Rules effectively for pool Board decisions. Learn how to strengthen your Board’s decision-making process, and practice difficult scenarios with fellow attendees. All content is customized to pool Boards of Directors to assure you have tools and techniques to work through relevant decisions, tricky membership conversations, and related operational matters.
This session is complimentary to the Pooling Basics series offered Tuesday.
AGRiP has been constructing a set of pooling-specific benchmarks for common financial ratios, to help public entity pools measure financial performance against industry-wide standards as well as pooling peers. This session offers an opening glimpse into first-of-its-kind information about pooling financial ranges and benchmarks, with opportunity to explore similarities and differences by geography, line of coverage, and member contributions.
Unemployment pool experts share their experiences establishing and running unemployment pools, and comparing and contrasting the different ways to do so. This session will help other pools considering whether an unemployment pool might be helpful to their membership, including regulatory and operational needs.
We live in a time of profound change. Boards are discovering that they need to think and act differently if they are going to meet the challenges their pools face. A successful Board will seek to govern for the future, being mindful to minimize exposure to risk. Learn how as a Board member you can push and support your pool to pursue lofty goals, take calculated risks, and innovate successfully.
This session is complimentary to the Pooling Basics series offered Tuesday.
As you anticipate your pool’s future, you know for certain the majority of pool staff will be long retired before you implement all your ideas and plans. Everyone shares a responsibility to identify and cultivate the next set of pool leaders, and prepare them for a set of futures you can only imagine. How do you possibly accomplish this goal? A panel of pools actively working on leadership development programs will describe their work, guide you through important questions to consider, and share their insights.
This guided conversation will bring further focus to The Value of Why for your pool, helping you relate your role to the pool’s purpose, membership value, and future.
Significant modifications will be made to the Affordable Care Act and accompanying regulations during 2017. These changes may generate opportunities for pools and other public entities that are sufficiently prepared. This session will provide attendees with practical, timely advice about how to best take advantage of these changes in 2017 and beyond.
There is a longstanding debate about whether to outsource essential services of a pool or retain significant in-house staffing. Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer, there are pros and cons to each side of the debate. This moderated panel session will examine outsourcing alternatives alongside in-house operations, providing perspective from pools operating in a variety of in-house or outsourced models.
This session will review major operational risk factors faced by pools, such as underwriting, investment, and reinsurance risks. Attendees will examine traditional and emerging strategies and financial measures designed to protect against these risks, including financial and surplus ratios, confidence level funding, risk-based capital requirements, and capital modeling. Taken in concert, these approaches can help a pool establish comprehensive financial goals and important measurements of financial health.
This guided conversation will bring further focus to The Value of Why for your pool, helping you relate your role to the pool’s purpose, membership value, and future.
The $OURCE (Simulated Operating and Underwriting Results in a Competitive Environment) Game offers participants the opportunity to make realistic pooling decisions and consider causes and effects on a pool’s financial results. Participants will gain a greater understanding of business realities within the competitive insurance and pooling marketplace, and the importance of understanding financial implications of key business decisions. For pre-registered participants, the $OURCE Game will run in several sessions Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March 7.
It can be difficult to juggle the order and importance of a board's responsibility towards succession, governance and strategy. This session offers an overview of the challenges of sequencing these intertwining issues, and the imperative that they are thought of in a woven, recursive way across time rather than a simplistic, linear sequence. The session will also provide an opportunity to explore some of the ways the three themes can emerge in a pooling environment.
The pace of cybersecurity breaches has rapidly increased and pools are not immune. Organizations large and small are falling victim to hackers, hacktivists and nation states. Intellectual property, data and bank accounts have never been at greater risk. Cybercrime is a symptom of changing social, economic, political and technological factors. Join GreyCastle Security for a fresh and candid look at cybercrime today. This session will discuss the latest threats and solutions for security challenges in 2017.
Workers’ compensation claims are often complicated because of employee health comorbidity that influences normal injury recovery. Learn from a fellow pool about the positive impact health management services that blend wellness and work comp case management have had on the frequency and severity of claims.
Implementing ERM requires focus on the risk management process including the identification, prioritization, and mitigation of organizational risks. Those are important aspects of successful ERM, but typically not appropriate for Board-level engagement. The pool Board of Directors should be active and involved identifying risks to the organization’s mission and strategy, looking for ways to align ERM efforts with long-term organizational initiatives. This session will illustrate how ERM can strengthen a pool’s strategic planning process, adding structure and rigor to evaluating risks and opportunities for organizational initiatives, and enhancing an pool’s ability to allocate its resources (financial, human, or otherwise) to areas of most need or biggest potential for enhanced value. Whether or not your pool has embraced ERM, this session will help you identify key elements to engage in your strategic planning process to improve it, overall.
Law enforcement liability and workers’ compensation risk has long topped the list of most critical loss areas for a pool to monitor. Hear from a panel of pools and experts that have implemented comprehensive and unique law enforcement risk management programs and tools, including an overview of what’s worked well and what hasn’t been so successful. Consider whether any of their strategies might work well in your pooling operation.
Are you new to pooling? The five-part Pooling Basics curriculum presented throughout the day will provide an overview of everything those new to pooling might need or want to know. Material will be shared in traditional presentation style, with expert presenters engaged throughout for group discussion, as well as opportunities for peer-to-peer collaboration. Special focus and attention will be placed on Board-level discussions and understanding.
Part 2 will cover Financial Reporting and Auditing.
Public entity legal issues that progress through appeals, or potentially reach a state or even the United States Supreme Court, can have lasting and widespread impact. Hear about the cases making waves in the public sector, including those with pending or active review at the Federal level. And, consider implications from court appointments and changing national policy that pools might want to be monitoring in the months ahead.
An Enterprise Risk Assessment (ERA) helps identify major risk categories facing a pool, as well as smaller risk sub-groupings and particularly salient individual risks within those major categories. The ERA prioritizes the identified risks and creates a strong foundation for strategic planning. This session will provide an overview of the purposes of an ERA, a discussion of methodology, and a discussion of possible uses for ERA results and recommendations.
Are you new to pooling? The five-part Pooling Basics curriculum presented throughout the day will provide an overview of everything those new to pooling might need or want to know. Material will be shared in traditional presentation style, with expert presenters engaged throughout for group discussion, as well as opportunities for peer-to-peer collaboration. Special focus and attention will be placed on Board-level discussions and understanding.
Part 3 will cover Claims.
Autonomous vehicles present opportunities and risks for public entity members that might also change the profile of transit, fleet, and auto risks for pools. Explore the totality of development cycle, shifting operations, and risks that are presented by this new technology and consider the implications for your pooling operation.
Public engagement in local governments is an interesting topic for civics class, but why does it matter to pools? Public engagement gone wrong can create unnecessary conflicts or hinder resolution. In today’s world it doesn’t take long for a public entity member in crisis to rack up a million dollars or more in loss costs resulting from unhealthy levels or expressions of conflict. Learn about one pool’s story, research, resources and insights into public engagement done right and the value of helping pool members productively manage public conflict.
The $OURCE (Simulated Operating and Underwriting Results in a Competitive Environment) Game offers participants the opportunity to make realistic pooling decisions and consider causes and effects on a pool’s financial results. Participants will gain a greater understanding of business realities within the competitive insurance and pooling marketplace, and the importance of understanding financial implications of key business decisions. For pre-registered participants, the $OURCE Game will run in several sessions Monday, March 6 and Tuesday, March 7.
Diversity of perspective and background is important on a Board of Directors to be sure issues are addressed from every angle and solutions are fully vetted. Developing diversity goals and policies is a first step in making sure your Board is as well-rounded and ready to tackle future challenges. In this session, explore the value of diversity on a Board of Directors and the practical ways it can help you improve your pool’s governance and performance.
Are you new to pooling? The five-part Pooling Basics curriculum presented throughout the day will provide an overview of everything those new to pooling might need or want to know. Material will be shared in traditional presentation style, with expert presenters engaged throughout for group discussion, as well as opportunities for peer-to-peer collaboration. Special focus and attention will be placed on Board-level discussions and understanding.
Part 4 will cover Underwriting.
Emergency preparedness is something every public entity addresses at one time or another, and it is a common member service area for pools. In this session, learn the basics of helping your members build a comprehensive emergency preparedness program that includes site assessments, emergency planning and critical incident training. Identify barriers your members are likely to face when building their plans, and explore ways to help them overcome what could be “fatal” flaws in their preparedness.
This presentation will provide a review of the current state of the insurance and reinsurance marketplaces. We will help sort out what is likely and what is not likely in a non-politicized discussion of how the public entity, pooling, and insurance marketplace will be affected by changes in regulatory impacts, tax impacts, the Affordable Care Act, and more. What do you think will change (if anything) in the shift of our national politic?
Having a diversity goal for your Board is great, but how do you put it into practice? This session will provide toolkit strategies to implement diversity goals, focused on Board recruitment and development. Explore the upsides of establishing a diversity-driven Board, as well as concerns and doubts about building diversity.
The position of top pool executive is a unique job with a relatively small peer group. AGRiP is the only organization collecting and reporting on compensation for the position, watching industry trends and outcomes. Join this session to hear an overview of findings on salary and compensation impacts as they relate to geography, education, employment structure, reporting structure, and other relevant metrics.
State specific pooling regulation doesn't have to be perceived as constricting. This session will provide a high-level look at what state insurance departments require of traditional carriers. If you understand the regulators’ expectations of transparency, you’re in a better position to deflect criticism from competitors, and may be able to head off an adversarial relationship with your state regulators. Statutory versus GAAP accounting is the easy part. Opening your doors to regulators for a financial examination is another story.
Are you new to pooling? The five-part Pooling Basics curriculum presented throughout the day will provide an overview of everything those new to pooling might need or want to know. Material will be shared in traditional presentation style, with expert presenters engaged throughout for group discussion, as well as opportunities for peer-to-peer collaboration. Special focus and attention will be placed on Board-level discussions and understanding.
Part 5 will cover Loss Control, Risk Management, and Questions & Answers.
AGRiP roundtable sessions are always spirited, interesting, and sure to give you some new ideas to consider back at home. Join your peers for facilitated breakfast conversations organized around line of coverage. Bring your questions and current concerns to share.
AGRiP roundtable sessions are always spirited, interesting, and sure to give you some new ideas to consider back at home. Join your peers for facilitated breakfast conversations organized around line of coverage. Bring your questions and current concerns to share.
AGRiP roundtable sessions are always spirited, interesting, and sure to give you some new ideas to consider back at home. Join your peers for facilitated breakfast conversations organized around line of coverage. Bring your questions and current concerns to share.
In the last year, 16 SuperForecasters have been exploring public entity and pooling operational and leadership topics. They’ve looked at everything from the future of public-private partnerships to how the risk management profession is changing; from the impact of autonomous vehicles to community resiliency efforts. This panel of selected AGRiP SuperForecasters will share their work so far, the lessons they’ve learned, the approaches and tools they’ve found most helpful, and the ways all pools can implement a future-ready, forecaster mindset.
Think of the most epic road trip you've ever taken. Did you have a final destination in mind? Was it full of detours, happy accidents...or danger? As pools we want to know why we exist (remember the opening session!) and whether pooling's noble, historic legacy still holds up for today's and tomorrow's members; and we want to know where we’re going. Based upon her extensive work with public entity pools, and framed using a new set of tools introduced specifically for pools, AGRiP's resident futurist Rebecca Ryan will help pools understand the road trips they're taking, where they may end up, and how to plot the best route. You won’t want to miss this closing session that helps draw the roadmap from start to finish of our 2017 Governance & Leadership Conference.