By Jeff Dunsavage, Senior Analysis Analyst, Triple-I
I’m happy and proud to have been a part of Triple-I’s City Corridor — “Attacking the Threat Disaster” — in Washington, D.C. In an intimate setting on the Mayflower Resort on November 30, 120-plus attendees acquired to listen to from consultants representing insurance coverage, authorities, academia, nonprofits, and different stakeholder teams on local weather danger, what’s being completed to deal with it, and what stays to be completed.
Triple-I’s first-ever City Corridor was designed as a logical step in its multi-disciplinary, action-oriented effort to alter conduct to drive resilience. Capping a yr through which headlines about “insurance coverage crises” in a number of states garnered main media consideration, Triple-I and its members and companions acknowledged the necessity for clarification.
“What we’re seeing just isn’t an ‘insurance coverage disaster’,” Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan advised the standing-room-only viewers. “We’re within the midst of a danger disaster. Rising insurance coverage premium charges and availability difficulties usually are not the trigger however a symptom of this disaster.”
Whereas the insurance coverage {industry} has a important function to play and is uniquely properly outfitted to guide the assault, merely transferring danger just isn’t sufficient. A recurring theme on the City Corridor was the necessity to shift from a concentrate on assessing and repairing injury to one in every of predicting and stopping losses.
Three moderated discussions – analyzing the character of local weather danger and its prices; highlighting the necessity of strategic innovation in mitigating these dangers and constructing resilience; and exploring the function and impression of presidency coverage – gave panelists the chance to share their insights with a various viewers targeted on collaborative motion.
The agenda was:
Local weather Threat Is Spiraling: What Can Be Accomplished?
Moderator: David Wessel, Senior Fellow and Director on the Brookings Establishment and former Economics Editor for The Wall Avenue Journal.
Panelists:
Dr. Philip Klotzbach, Colorado State College, researcher and Triple-I non-resident scholar.
Dan Kaniewski, Managing Director, Public Sector at Marsh McLennan, Former FEMA Deputy Administrator.
Jacqueline Higgins, Head, North America & Senior Vice President, Public Sector Options, Swiss Re
Jim Boccher, Chief Growth Officer, ServiceMaster.
Jeff Huebner, Chief Threat Officer, CSAA.
Innovation, Excessive- and Low-Tech: How Insurers Are Driving Options
Moderator: Jennifer Kyung, VP, Chief Underwriter, USAA.
Panelists:
Partha Srinivasa, EVP, CIO, Erie Insurance coverage.
Sam Krishnamurthy, CTO, Digital Options, Crawford.
Bob Marshall, CEO, Whisker Labs.
Stephen DiCenso, Principal,Milliman.
Charlie Sidoti, Govt Director, InnSure.
Outdated Regs to Authorized System Abuse: It Will Take Villages to Repair This
Moderator: Zach Warmbrodt, monetary companies editor, Politico.
Panelists:
Parr Schoolman, SVP and Chief Threat Officer, Allstate.
Tim Decide, SVP, Head Modeler, Chief Local weather Officer, Fannie Mae.
Dan Coates, Deputy Director, DRS, Federal Housing Finance Company.
Fred Karlinsky, Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s International Insurance coverage Regulatory & Transactions Apply Group.
Panelists and members alike appreciated the compact, action-focused, conversational nature of the single-afternoon occasion, in addition to the chance to debate areas through which their various industry- or sector-specific priorities and efforts overlapped.
If you happen to weren’t in a position to be a part of us in Washington, don’t fear. In his closing remarks, Kevelighan introduced plans to take this system on the street with a neighborhood and regional focus, so keep tuned. You possibly can contact us in the event you’re taken with collaborating in future City Halls or different Triple-I occasions. You can also be a part of the “Attacking the Threat Disaster” LinkedIn Group to be a part of the continued dialog.
