24th IRMI Construction Risk Conference Scheduled for November 8-11, 2004

Release Date: May 13, 2004
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DALLAS—The 24th IRMI Construction Risk Conference will take place November 8–11, 2004, in Orlando. The 3 ½-day Conference is the only national symposium devoted exclusively to construction insurance, risk management, loss control, and bonding. The program is designed for construction industry risk management and financial officers, construction project owners, and the insurance and surety agents, brokers, advisers, attorneys, and underwriters who serve them.

The Construction Risk Conference is redesigned each year and features more than 25 seminars and workshops by insurance, safety, legal, and bonding experts from throughout the United States. Some of the topics to be explored include: What Can Your Broker Do for You?; Maximizing Safety Performance with Technology; Managing Performance Bond Default Risk; Additional Insured Issues; Accident Investigation Techniques; The What, When, Why, and How of Arbitration; Strategic Contracting; Covering Employees in Post-War Reconstruction; Allocating Risks in Construction Contracts; Safety—An Essential Element of Effective Risk Management; Construction Maritime Risks & Insurance; Builders Risk Claims Strategies; Analyzing and Avoiding Contract Risks, and more. Executive panels will address a variety of construction risk, insurance, and bonding issues.

The Conference begins with optional full and half-day seminars conducted on Monday, November 8. This year’s seminar half-day seminar topics (each attendee can sign up for two) are Wrap-Up Documents: Read Before You Sign; Fundamentals of Contractual Risk Transfer; Insurance for Construction Defects; Speak Finance Like a Native; and Risk Managers Roundtable, which is an open discussion of topics chosen by participants. A full-day seminar, What’s Hot in Construction Risk Management, is also available for those who are interested in a fast-paced survey of the most important risk and insurance issues facing contractors.

Attendees have the option of registering for the entire program Monday through Thursday noon (at $1,245) or Tuesday through Thursday noon (at $1,145). Contractors and project owners attending for the first time qualify for a special first-timers’ half-price registration fee of $623. Registration must be made in advance of the meeting.

For further information, contact the Conference coordinator at International Risk Management Institute, Inc., 12222 Merit Drive, Suite 1450, Dallas, TX 75251–2276. Telephone 800–827–4242 (in Dallas 972–960–7693), fax 972–371–5120, or visit IRMI’s Web site at www.IRMI.com.

International Risk Management Institute, Inc., is a Dallas-based research and publishing firm specializing in insurance, surety, and risk management. IRMI has done extensive research on the subject of construction insurance, surety, and risk management. The Construction Risk Conference typically draws 1,200 or more risk managers, agents, brokers, underwriters, attorneys, and others.