 Area of expertise: Fraud Prevention
After a successful battle with fraudsters in Georgia — prompted by “property flipping” that threatened her own family’s home — Ann Fulmer came to national attention when People magazine featured her story. Ms. Fulmer is a nationally recognized speaker who illuminates the hidden costs of mortgage fraud, highlights new and emerging schemes, and provides insights about how to detect and prevent fraud. Her audiences include title insurers, mortgage bankers, brokers and servicers, realtors, appraisers, state and federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies, actuaries, and property/casualty insurance groups.
 Area of expertise: Predictive Modelling
If you have an Enterprise Risk Management program, then you already know that profits can evaporate in many ways, from every sort of risk — operational, execution, marketing, regulatory, and more. Either revenues shrink or costs are larger than you expected, especially over time in long-tailed lines of business. Marty Ellingsworth can illustrate the major segments of risk and the strategic and tactical methods to mitigate them through the power of predictive modeling. Mr. Ellingsworth also speaks on how to optimize your revenues with evidence-based underwriting standards, how to manage your customer portfolio, and how to do risk-based pricing using predictive-modeling techniques. |
 Area of expertise: Insurance Coverages, Social and Economic Trends
Why should you be concerned that many of today’s consumer products use the applied science of nanotechnology? How is genetic modification affecting crops? And what is the potential effect on plants, the environment, and the food supply? Why do many observers consider climate change to be the number-one concern for the property/casualty insurance industry in the coming years? At Jeff De Turris’s presentation on emerging issues, you’ll learn about these and other hot topics that may have important implications for your products, claims, and underwriting operations.
 Area of expertise: Risk Management
Ken Rado offers insights into the changing role of risk management in today’s corporations. You’ll learn how the charter of the risk management function can vary from organization to organization and how risk management touches tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, operations, contracts, supply-chain management, and litigation management, as well as products liability. In other presentations, he explains how to use the commercial insurance marketplace — how the market functions and what drives it — and how to use brokers and other advisors. He offers advice on integrating engineering into risk management and how that can facilitate supply-chain risk management and enterprise risk management. He can also speak on international risk management programs, captives, and the risk-management responsibilities of every manager in a successful organization. |
