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LOMA International Underwriting Congress (IUC)
March 8 – 11, 2009
Windsor Barra Hotel
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

New Directions in Risk Management 


Overview

2007 Program Details
- 2009 Program details coming soon!


Sponsor & Exhibitor Opportunities


2009 IUC Planning Team

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Overview 
The International Underwriting Congress (IUC) offers a multidisciplinary program focusing on issues related to international life and health insurance risk selection and doing business internationally. The 2009 IUC promises to be once again one of the largest risk management conferences ever held. In addition to hearing from 50 experts from the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers, over 350 delegates are expected to attend the Congress and the Congress Trade Fair, which will feature a wide array of the industry products and services, and excellent networking opportunities.

Who Attends the IUC?

·         Life, Critical Illness, Disability, Long Term Care and Health Insurance Underwriters, Managers, and Executives

·         Actuaries

·         Medical Officers

·         International Marketing Executives

·         Reinsurers

·         Risk, Technology, and Work Process Consultants

·         Service Vendors

·         Claims Executives

·         Legal Counsel                                                                            Back to top

2007 Program Details

 

Sunday, March 18


5:30 – 7:30 PM Reception & Trade Fair


Monday, March 19


8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Trade Fair


9:00 – 9:30 AM Opening Ceremony & Official Welcome
Thomas P. Donaldson FLMI, CLU, President & CEO, LOMA, USA
C. Joseph Dahl, FLMI, CLU, FALU, Vice President, Underwriting, Sun Life Financial, Canada


9:30 – 11:00 AM The China Market
Jingsheng Liu, CEO, China Re Group, China
Joel V. Basarich, Ph.D., FLMI, ACS, Vice President & Managing Director, International Division, LOMA, USA, Session Coordinator


11:00 – 11:30 AM Break


11:30 AM – 12:30 PM The Asian & Global Perspective
Trevor Matthews, CEO Life & Pensions, Standard Life, Scotland UK
Susie Cour-Palais, Director, SelectX Ltd., UK, Session Coordinator


12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch & Trade Fair


2:00 – 3:30 PM Concurrent Sessions

The Right to Underwrite:
Cost-Benefit Analysis / Protective Value

Anna Hart, Principal, Consulting Independent Underwriter, USA
Michael Winkler, Senior Executive Consultant Financial Solutions, Munich Re/New Re, Germany

Rick Bergstrom, Consulting Actuary, Milliman, USA, Speaker and Session Coordinator


Regional Challenges in Underwriting
and Claims – Part 1

Ann Law, Director, Head of Underwriting, Greater China, Swiss Re, China
Doan Tin, Director, Policy Administration, Manulife, Vietnam
Nazir Damji, Vice President & Chief Underwriter, Max New York Life, India, Speaker and Session Coordinator


Skills Creation and Enhancement
Dr. Fajah Peshi, Regional Medical Director, GenRe Life Health, Singapore
Dr. Peter Scollar, Deputy Head, Claims Health & Accident, Senior Claims Officer, Winterthur Group, Switzerland
Paul Turner, Director, Head of Underwriting, Asia, Swiss Re, Hong Kong, Session Coordinator


Health Insurance: Managing the Tiger
Rob Leonardi, CEO, United Healthcare, Malaysia
Anastasios Goudoulakis, China
David Laskey, General Manager, Asia, Hannover Life Re, Hong Kong, Session Coordinator


Traditional Chinese Medicine
Dr. Charles Cao, Supervisor, Policy Administration Dept., Metlife, China
Dr. Guowen Jin, Underwriter, Risk Management Department, China Life Re, China
Yihong Wang, Deputy General Manager, China Life Re, China, Session Coordinator


Insurer / Reinsurer Relationships – Cementing the Partnership
Brendan Galligan, Senior Vice President, RGA International, Asia Pacific
Richard Lau, Vice President Risk Management, ING, USA
Ronald Colligan, President, ACE Tempest Re, USA, Session Coordinator


3:30 – 4:00 PM Break

 

4:00 – 5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions Repeated


Tuesday, March 20

 

8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Trade Fair


9:00 – 10:30 AM Technology Panel:
Dr. Woody Mo, CEO, eBaoTech, China
Greg Buckle, FIA, Metropolitan Life, South Africa
Wenli Yuan, Senior Analyst, Celent, China
Susie Cour-Palais, Director, SelectX Ltd., UK, Session Coordinator


10:30 – 11:00 AM Break


11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Product Innovation Panel:


     Simplified Issue, Products Without Underwriting, Family Product
     Allen Klein, Vice President, Actuarial Experience Studies, AIG, USA
     Richard Treagus, Group Assurance Executive, Actuary, Old Mutual, South Africa


     Impaired/Enhanced and Immediate Needs Annuities
     Dr. Nicola-Alexander Sittaro, Medical Director, Hanover Life Re, Germany
     Francis Blumberg, Head of Life Reinsurance, Zurich, Partner Re, Switzerland


12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch & Trade Fair


2:00 – 3:30 PM Concurrent Sessions


Pandemics Avian Flu
Dr. Detloff Rump, Vice President & Chief Underwriter, American International Assurance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong
Alexandra Cohen, Senior Model Development, Manager, RMS, USA
Michael Tine, RMS, USA
Wong Wai Fung, Assistant Vice President, Underwriting, American International Assurance Co, Ltd. Hong Kong, Session Coordinator


Alternative Underwriting Tools
Brian Gibbon, Head of Service Innovation, Momentum Savings and Risk, South Africa
James Kelly, Senior Vice President International, Transamerica Re, USA
Peter Maynard, Director, SelectX Ltd, UK, Speaker & Session Coordinator


Managing Multiple Distribution
David Chen, CEO of Asia Pacific Region, Ace International Life, Taiwan
Michael Huddart, Executive Vice President & General Manager HR, Manulife, Hong Kong
Ann Law, Director, Head of Underwriting, Greater China, Swiss Re, China, Session
Coordinator


Financial Underwriting
Jeffrey King, Senior Underwriting and Claims Consultant, Winterthur Group, Switzerland
Paul Jones, Chief Underwriter Asia, Scottish Re, Singapore, Speaker and Session Coordinator


Process Outsourcing
Michael O’Brien, Chief Insurance Analyst, Senior Vice President & COO, Old Mutual
Financial Network, USA
Michael Benton, CEO, Medicals Direct, England UK , Speaker and Session Coordinator

Critical Illness: To tier or not to tier that is the question
Adrian Burke, Product Owner & Actuary, Old Mutual, South Africa
Peter Temple, Managing Director, GenRe, South Africa
Dr. Peter Bond, Chief Medical Officer, Old Mutual, South Africa, Session Coordinator


3:30 – 4:00 PM Break


4:00 – 5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions Repeated


6:30 – 9:30 PM Gala Party & Dinner


Wednesday, March 21

 

8:00 – 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast


9:00 – 10:30 AM Concurrent Sessions


Hepatitis B and C
Dr. Philip Smalley, Vice President & Medical Director, RGA, Canada
Dr. David Wesley, Vice President & Chief Medical Director, Transamerica Reinsurance, USA
Dr. Gabriella Dolinszky, Medical Director, Underwriter, Aegon, Hungary, Session Coordinator


Active Claims Management
Dr. Wolfgang Droste, Chief Executive, Asia Pacific, GenRe, Hong Kong
Anton Frömmel, Manager, Munich Re, Germany, Speaker and Session Coordinator


Markers for Coronary Disease Risk: A New Generation of Underwriting Options
Hank George, FLMI, CLU, FALU, President, Hank George, Inc., USA
C. Joseph Dahl, FLMI, CLU, FALU, Vice President, Underwriting, Sun Life Financial, Canada, Session Coordinator

 

Maintaining the Balance: The Underwriting- Sales and Underwriting
- Actuarial Interfaces

Peter Le Beau, CEO, Le Beau Visage, UK
Gordon Gibbons, Vice President, Business Development, Optimum Re, USA, Speaker and Session Coordinator


Regional Challenges in Underwriting and Claims – Part 2
Deogracia Repuyan, Assistant Vice President, Sun Life of Canada, Philippines
Jae Shik Lee, SCOR Global Life, South Korea
Won Young Choi, SCOR Global Life, South Korea
Dr. Takeshi Uchiyama, Chief Medical Officer, GenRe, Japan
Nazir Damji, Vice President & Chief Underwriter, Max New York Life, India, Session Coordinator


Insuring the Uninsurables: Is it Possible?

Ross Beerman, Managing Director, Allife, South Africa
Gaynor Waterman, Underwriting Director, Partnership Assurance, UK
Peter Temple, Managing Director, GenRe, South Africa, Session Coordinator


10:30 – 11:00 AM Break


11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions Repeated


12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch


2:00 – 3:30 PM

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome & Obesity: Sugar Spice and all Things Nice
François Bonnici, Professor Emeritus, UCT Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa
Dr. Jörg Apfelbach, Head of Underwriting & Claims, SCOR Global Life , Germany  
Dr. Peter Bond, Chief Medical Officer, Old Mutual, South Africa, Session Coordinator


3:30 – 4:00 PM Crossroads: Our Future is in Our Hands!
Hank George, FLMI, CLU, FALU, President, Hank George, Inc., USA
Laura Perry-Bates, FLMI, Manager, International Division, LOMA, USA, Session Coordinator

 

4:00 – 4:10 PM
Closing Ceremony & Announcement of 2009 IUC

Joel V. Basarich, Ph.D., FLMI, ACS, Vice President & Managing Director, International Division, LOMA, USA

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Meeting Details

Register by February 6, 2009 and Save!

Registration Coming Soon!
Registration fees: 
Before February 6, 2009
US$775 LOMA member
US$875 LIMRA (non-LOMA) members
US$975 non-member

After February 6, 2009
US$875 LOMA member
US$975 LIMRA (non-LOMA) members
US$1075 non-member

Registration Fee Discounts:
The registration fee for the first 5 attendees from the same company in the same location is US$775 per person. For all additional attendees from the same company in the same location, the registration fee is US$300 per person.


2009 Hotel Information

Conference Hotel:
Windsor Barra Hotel
Av. Sernambetiba, 2630 
Barra da Tijuca - CEP 
22620-170 - Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
http://www.windsorhoteis.com 

Room rate: R$ 390.00 + 15% tax and R$ 3.00 per day tourism tax (price quoted in Brazilian Reals). Room rate includes breakfast. 

For more information, visit www.loma.org/iuc.asp

Sponsorship & Exhibitor Opportunities
Receive recognition from hundreds of executives from insurance and financial services companies located throughout the world. Benefits of sponsorship include:

  • Publicity and increased brand presence from the inclusion of your corporate logo in the more than 365,000 pieces of promotional and registration materials.

  • Billing as a sponsor on LOMA’s Web site.

  • Recognition as a sponsor in onsite materials distributed to delegates.

  • Exclusive coverage in the February 2009 issue of Resource magazine with pass-along readership of more than 100,000 in 74 countries.

  • Signage at the conference and public recognition for making this global-event possible.

...and much more!

Exhibiting Opportunities
The Congress Trade Fair promises to be one of the highlights in Rio de Janeiro and is a unique, one-stop forum for attendees to get acquainted with your products and services. The Trade Fair will be staged on three days and you will have ample opportunities to network with top executives from the insurance and financial services industry. 

Download the 2009 IUC Sponsorship & Exhibitor Information and Application. (PDF format)

For More Information

Contact LOMA's International Division at:
(770) 984-3795 (voice)
(770) 984-6420 (fax)
intl@loma.org (e-mail)

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