SESSIONS - Crittenden Medical Insurance Conference

SESSION 1 - Monday, April 14th - 9:00 am - 10:00 am
 

Session #101

The Latest Technology Risks in Healthcare for 2008...It’s Getting Worse

  • Biggest health data breaches in 2007: Examples of losses and latest statistics

  • 2008 Computer threats: Emerging threats from 3rd parties that create new liabilities for care givers

  • Rash of identity theft in healthcare: What is personal health data worth?

  • Proliferation of regulations and standards: A compliance dilemma

  • An overview of the insurance industry’s response to these exposures, and what to look for in a policy in 2008

Moderator: Robert W. De Blasio - Managing Director, Kinloch Partners, Inc.

Drew Bartkiewicz - Vice President Technology Risk, The Hartford Insurance Company

Session #102

Physician Liability Within A Hospital Setting

  • A review of various engagements between MDs and hospitals (employer, 1099 contract, staff privileged, etc.)

  • Risks / challenges associated with these relationships

  • Challenges addressing coverage from a hospital and MD point of view

  • Possible solutions and advantages / disadvantages

Moderator: Mark Francis - Senior Vice President, Willis of North Carolina

Shulamith Klein - Senior Director - Risk & Insurance Services, Emory Healthcare

Timothy Krautheim - National Facilities Sales Leader, Medical Protective
William J. McDonough - President & Chief Executive Officer, Princeton Insurance Company

 

Session #103

E-Health: Its Impact on MPL

  • What does E-Health look like? What is the demand?

    • In pharmacies 

    • In hospitals

    • In physician offices

    • In physician Practices

  • What's allowed by licensing?

  • What are carrier's underwriting appetites / concerns?

  • What are legal / claim Issues?

  • What do participants see developing in the future?

Moderator: Mary Stone - President, Locum Tenens Consulting, Inc.

Anne B. Anderson - EVP & Chief Executive Officer, Medical Doctor Associates, Inc.
Fran O’Connell - Vice President Medical Underwriting, Shand Morahan & Company, Inc.

SESSION 2 - Monday, April 14th 10:30 am - 11:30 am
 

Session #201

Reinsurance: Softening Market Strategies

  • Views from reinsurers, brokers and cedants

  • What price do you put on relationships?

  • Obstacles to pricing integrity

  • Responding to the changing needs of clients

Moderator: Chip Ott - Executive Vice President, John B. Collins Associates, Inc.

Ian Sawyer - Casualty Underwriter, Catlin Insurance Company, Ltd
Paul McKeon - Senior Vice President, Transatlantic Reinsurance Company
Joshua Stein - Chief Underwriting Officer, IronHealth

Session #202

The Circular Firing Squad: Defending Blended Claims

  • Coordinating defense of med-mal and product claims

  • Ways to avoid making the plaintiff’s case for him

  • How to harmonize without rolling over

  • The art of presenting a united defense front

Moderator: Kevin M. Quinely - Senior Vice President Risk Services, Medmarc Insurance Group

Lori Cohen - Partner, Greenburg Traurig, LLP
Scott Buchholz - Partner, Dummit, Buchholz & Trapp

Session #203

Top Five Risk Management Issues in the Physician Practice

  • Difficult risk management situations and their solutions

  • Physician practices that make medical malpractice lawsuits difficult to defend

  • Risk management strategies to minimize these problems

  • Systems errors: Communication with patients, and physician to physician communication

Moderator: Kathi Burton - Regional Manager Risk Management Services, ProAssurance Corporation

Creighton Wright, MD - President, Cardiac Vascular and Thoracic Surgeons, Inc.
Jerome A. McTague, MD - Defense Attorney, Law Offices Stephen Skiver & Associates, LLC
 

SESSION 3 - Monday, April 14th - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
 

  Session #301

Positive Impact of Technology in Patient Safety and Quality

  • Implication for risk management in the implementation of technology at the bedside

  • Case Study: The Good, the bad, the ugly - Routine infection control care gone bad - Lessons learned

  • Analysis of technology and quality care initiatives by underwriters

  • Brokers - Are your clients protected? New concerns / information needs for preparing submission materials and placing coverage

Moderator: Colleen Dunn, - AVP Healthcare, Allied World Assurance Company (U.S.), Inc.
Fay A. Rozovsky - President, The Rozovsky Group, Inc.

Colin Hung - Vice President of Marketing & Alliances, rL Solutions
P.J. Livingston - Senior Associate, Dubraski & Associates Insurance Services, LLC

Session #302

Emerging Liability Exposures Presented to Health Insurers, Managed Care Organizations and Other Healthcare Industry Participants.

  • Are hospitals & healthcare facilities doing enough to ensure their physicians are qualified? 

  • How will pay for performance and Zagat style physician ranking programs impact health insurer liability exposures? 

  • The government’s role in healthcare - Purchaser, provider and regulator 

  • Are shock verdicts in managed care cases a thing of the past? Will politicians’ efforts to bring them back and change health insurer practices succeed? 

  • Will disease management and wellness services provide plaintiffs’ attorneys with fruitful fodder in future litigation? 

  • Noteworthy cases on healthcare privacy rights violations and how insurance products may respond

Moderator: Kristin McMahon - Special Counsel, Kerns, Frost & Pearlman, LLC

Alice Johansson - Senior Vice President, IronHealth
Jack McCarthy, President, Risk Management Foundation for The Harvard Medical Institutions
Dianne M. O'Donnell - Sales Executive Healthcare Division, National Specialty Underwriters, Inc.

Ciara Ryan Frost - Partner, Kerns, Frost & Pearlman, LLC

#303

Medical Malpractice Insurance Loss Ratio by State

  • How do loss ratios by state differ?

  • What contributes to the differences by state?

  • How do actuaries adjust for changes in the legal environment?

  • What are the trends underlying medical malpractice insurance loss ratios?

Moderator: Joseph Petrelli - President, Demotech, Inc.
Richard B. Lord - Principal & Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc.

Sharon M. Romano - Vice President, Demotech, Inc.

Sanford D. Elsass - President & Chief Executive Officer, Uni-Ter Group

SESSION 4 - Monday, April 14th - 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
 

 Session #401

Reinsurance Risk Transfer Practices

  • The accounting perspective: What are the key accounting rules for reinsurance

  • The legal perspective: What legal disclosures must now take place?

  • The actuarial perspective: How can risk transfer be justified? What happens if it is not?

Moderator: Elizabeth Kernan - Senior Vice President, ReSource Intermediaries Inc.

Nancy Watkins - Principal Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc.
Kevin Walsh - Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP

Session #402

Applying Predictive Modeling to Medical Professional Liability

  • Get more information out of your data with predictive modeling techniques

  • Better identify medical malpractice risk by applying predictive modeling

  • Predictive modeling, from data preparation to interpretation of results

  • Results presented from a recent case study of a medical malpractice insurer

Moderator: Chad C. Karls - Principal & Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc.

Robert E. White - President, First Professionals Insurance Company

Session #403

Trials Lost... Lessons Learned 

  • Candid accounts from defense, plaintiff's attorneys and insurance representatives 

  • Litigation successes and losses: What has been learned 

  • Lessons learned: Expert retention, settlement strategy, courtroom tactics, pre-trial, etc. 

  • Practical tips and suggestions to learn from our "mistakes"

Moderator: Steve W. Day - Managing Shareholder, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin

Laura Curtin - Regional Vice President, The Doctors Company

Virginia C. Nelson, Law Offices of Virginia C. Nelson

SESSION 5 - Tuesday, April 15th - 9:00 am - 10:00 am
 

 Session #501

The Crystal Ball Revisited

  • High-level observations on the softening market

  • Opportunities (and pains): In the short-term

  • Likely a changing landscape: In the long-term

  • Lessons learned: WWWD (What Would Warren Do?)

Moderator: Raymond Nolen - President, Nolen Associates

Timothy J. Kenesey - President & Chief Executive Officer, Medical Protective Company

Session #502

Mapping the Future: Dramatic Changes in Medical Service Delivery Patterns

  • Key factors changing the demand for older adult services and living environments

  • Strategies to succeed in serving the needs and demands of more active seniors

  • Cost of risk: Who bears the burden?

  • Economics of medical services delivery changes

Moderator: Sanford D. Elsass - President & Chief Executive Officer, Uni-Ter Group

Nancy E. Rehkamp - Principal, LarsonAllen LLP

Kevin M. Bingham - Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

SESSION 6 - Tuesday, April 15th - 10:15 am - 11:15 am
 

Session #601

Primary and Reinsurance Pricing in a Competitive Market Place

  • Pricing in a competitive jungle

  • Taking the mystery out of reinsurance pricing for cedants

  • Trends in reinsurance pricing, terms and conditions, attachment points and limits

  • Management’s challenge of juggling the actuary’s view with the need to compete

  • Pricing new exposures, is there a secret sauce?

Moderator: Kevin Bingham - Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Brian Alvers - Senior Vice President, Aon Re Services
William E. Burns - Consultant, Unique Risk Solutions, LLC

Session #602

MCIC Perinatal Patient Safety Initiative

  • The perinatal patient safety initiative - structure and components 

  • The challenge of herding hospital staffs 

  • The results speak for themselves 

  • Important next steps

Moderator: Sarah Dore - Senior Vice President, AVRECO

Leslie S. Lindenbaum - Vice President for Patient Safety & Loss Prevention, MCIC Vermont, Inc.

SESSION 7 - Power Panel - Tuesday, April 15th - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
 

 Session #701

Soft Landing or Race to the Bottom?

  • Overheated competition 

  • Territorial expansion 

  • Mergers & acquisitions 

  • Regulatory pressure 

  • New entrants 

  • Meeting future demand 

  • Challenges to tort reform 

  • Competition from hospitals

Moderator: Robert F. Kennedy - President & Chief Executive Officer, ReSource Intermediaries, Inc.

Stan Starnes - Chief Executive Officer - ProAssurance Corporation

Dr. Richard Anderson - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer - The Doctors Company
Robert E. White - President,  First Professionals Insurance Company

James Weidner - Chief Executive Officer, CAP-MPT
 

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