Schedule/Sessions
Breakfast and Keynote - Guy Fraker, Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance Thought Leadership
We live in a time of unprecedented innovation. For many incumbent organizations, the world has become a chaotic storm of disruption. Guy works with organizations to create clarity, to innovate for growth, to create stability for the future. Guy brings a unique perspective to his engagements having been on the leading edge of multiple transformations. By sharing actual experiences, Guy inspires clients and audiences to seize the opportunities brought by exponential technologies. As an entrepreneur, he is dedicated to technological applications that save lives, empowers personal independence, and enables sustainability. As an innovation architect, Guy’s clients have generated capital growth in excess of $350,000,000.00 on an ROI basis, created new markets, enabled new sectors.
Guy has been featured in the NY Times, NBC, Silicon Valley blogs, Thinking Highways magazine, Forbes. an upcoming documentary “Life on Wheels”. He has also appeared on Bloomberg Finance and National Underwriter webinars, and provides keynotes in the U.S., Canada, India, Korea. Guy also guest lectures at Graduate Schools around the world. He has been engaged by U.S. Federal and State Legislators, Cabinet Level Foreign Leaders, Fortune 100 firms, international trade associations, startup entrepreneurs, Venture Capital firms, and game changing institutions such as The X-Prize Foundation. Finally, he is the author of “Awake”: to be released in 2018.
When not pushing technology frontiers, Guy and his wife Rebecca enjoy boating and fishing.
Catastrophe Response
All claims organizations need to be prepared for a wide variety of catastrophic events. Geographic areas, type of products, aggregation of risk and organization size are a few of the issues that will dictate how you respond when an event occurs. The purpose of this course is to walk through the evaluation, development and implementation of a claims catastrophe response plan. When a Catastrophe does occur it is likely to be expensive and bring a high level of scrutiny upon the organization. However, with proper planning an organization can turn a negative situation into a positive result that can help a company grow.
Dashboard Metrics
Dashboard metrics are key components to contemporary property claims management. The metrics used impact all levels of the claims organization and are applicable both in commercial and personal line property claims. Analytics impact the daily workload management of individual adjusters and are properly utilized to ensure accurate and timely management for insureds experiencing a claim. Proper utilization of claims metrics further ensures claims are handled in good faith.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the numerous analytics tools available in property claims
- Understand the tools used to measure key performance claims metrics
- Explain the impact on service delivery, volume management & quality controls
- Properly document the key indicators used in claims management
- Recognize internal and external requirement of key indicators and how they impact first party good faith claims management,
Vendor Management - Goals of Vendor Management
The purpose of the Vendor Management course is to introduce students the wide array of vendor offerings currently available in the Property claims arena. Students will be shown how vetting of appropriate vendors occurs; the impact of technology advancements on vendor offerings; and the necessary tools to ensure avoidance of conflicts of interest. Additionally, students will learn the specific disciplines within the Property claims environment and the necessity of establishing clarity of roles. Finally, students will learn key tools to monitor outside vendor performance to ensure expected results for the carrier and the insured.
SHARED COURSE - Navigating Relationship for Success
The students will be presented with a claim scenario and will be assigned to roles in which they will ask questions of the claims examiner who will be required to respond, make recommendations and identify strategies for navigating these relationships keeping in mind the goal of claim resolution and career success.
Back to topSHARED COURSE - Presentation Skills for Claims Professionals
This course will explore the basics of effective presentations: knowing what you want to create (think “Zen”), delivering value to the audience, focusing on authenticity (rather than form!), the search for a fresh approach and presentation tools (podiums, PowerPoint, Prezi, etc.)
Back to topSHARED COURSE - Principles of Management
This course is designed to be an overview of the major functions of management. Emphasis is on planning, organizing, controlling, directing, and communicating. Upon completion, students should be able to work as contributing members of a team utilizing these functions of management.
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