For those of you who helped us in "Making the Right Connections," IBHS would like to thank you for your continued support of our endeavors to reduce property loss. We hope you enjoyed the annual conference at the Hilton Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. We look forward to seeing you next year.
Annual Conference Podcasts:
"A Day Without Business. . . .Not with Open for Businesssm"
Panel coordinated by Diana McClure, IBHS vice president and director of business protection. Other panelists include: Lynda Geraci, CBCP, CBRM, president of About Business Continuity and Mid-Florida chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners; Charlie Sidoti, ARM, CSP, vice president of OneBeacon Insurance Group, and David M. Hall, CPCU, ALCM, Underwriting Section manager for small business, Central Zone, State Farm Insurance
Listen to the presentation here [56:26].
"Social vulnerability: A new paradigm for understanding disaster losses"
Kathleen Tierney, Ph.D., Director, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
Listen to the presentation here [47:18]
Download the slide presentation here
"What the low catastrophe loss season of 2006 means for property/casualty insurers"
Robert P. Hartwig, Ph.D., CPCU, Executive Vice President & Chief Economist, Insurance Information Institute
Listen to the presentation
here [1:04:12]
Download the slide presentation
here
"What, me worry? Ambivalence in disaster central"
Candysse Miller, Executive Director, Insurance Information Network of California
Listen to the presentation
here [19:13]
Download the slide presentation
here
"Update from the Palmetto State"
Eleanor Kitzman, Insurance Director for South Carolina
Listen to the presentation
here [27:43]
"The politics of mitigation"
Panel moderated by Jean Lawyer, director, corporate communications, COUNTRY Insurance & Financial Services. Panelists include: Bart Anderson, senior vice president - member services & communications, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies; Keith Lessner, vice president, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, and Brenda O’Connor, vice president, public affairs, American Insurance Association.
Listen to the presentation
here [52:24]
"Stronger from the inside out: The state of building codes along the Gulf Coast"
Panel coordinated by IBHS Building Codes Manager Jeff Burton. Other panelists include: Randy Noel, chairman of Louisiana State Unified Code Council, and Mike Moore, a member of the Mississippi Building Code Council.
Listen to the presentation
here [51:20]
