Contractors

• Prepare for the possibility of a hard market. We have been in a soft insurance market for more than five years. We have been in a soft insurance market for more than five years. While no one can say for certain when it will turn, some insurance professionals believe the insurance market will firm within the next year or so. Hard markets usually result in substantial premium increases and major reductions in coverage. I will get a refresher on steps to take now to make certain we are armed and ready for whatever market realities face us on our next renewal.
• Registration fees have not increased in four years. This year’s standard Conference fees are the same as we charged in 2007. Plus, if you have never attended before, you qualify for a 50 percent discount; if you have attended previously, your CRIS certification, or membership in AGC or CFMA, gets you a 15 percent discount. Your fee includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch every day, a reception on Sunday, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at Tuesday night’s reception, which will further defray your costs of attendance.
• Low travel costs add to your savings. Airfares are the lowest they have been in quite some time.
• Meet underwriters and build your relationships with them. Developing long-term relationships is an important component of managing your insurance program. With the major construction underwriters all gathered in one place at one time, you won’t have a better opportunity to start a new relationship and enhance existing relationships.
• Attend with your agent or broker to develop your team. The most effective approach to managing risk is to take a team approach with your primary risk adviser. You won’t find a better way to get new ideas for safeguarding your company or shaving costs than to attend sessions together, discuss the implications to your organization, and develop an action plan for implementation while on-site.
• Network with and learn from other contractors. Attend the Risk Managers Roundtable and other events where you can meet with others who face the same problems as you. Swap ideas with them on-site and develop a network of informed colleagues around the country from whom you can seek advice when you encounter challenges in the future.
• Just one new idea from this meeting can add many times the cost to attend to your company’s bottom line. You will not find a better forum to learn the latest construction risk management and insurance trends, strategies, and tactics than the workshops and networking events at this Conference. We are so confident about the program’s quality that we promise to refund your Conference fee if you feel you didn’t get new ideas to reduce your cost of risk, enhance your risk management program, or improve your insurance coverages.
• Improve your competitive position by understanding the needs and concerns of the other parties on your projects. All types of participants on construction projects, including owners, general contractors, construction managers, architects/engineers, and trade contractors, are represented in the audience and at the podiums. By learning their concerns and needs you can take steps with your risk management and insurance program to address them, thereby turning your risk management program into a marketing asset.
• Satisfy your continuing education requirements. If you need to obtain CPE, CLE, or AIA continuing education credit, you can fulfill some if not all of your requirements by attending.
• Gain the knowledge you need to pass a CRIS exam and start your way toward the certification. If you aren’t yet certified as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist, a full-day workshop on Monday will cover the material for one of the courses and prepare you to pass the exam.
• Get the credit you need to keep your CRIS certification. If you have earned the CRIS certification, attending 7 hours of workshops will qualify you for reaccreditation.

Project Owners

• Prepare for the possibility of a hard market. We have been in a soft insurance market for more than five years. While no one can say for certain when it will turn, some insurance professionals believe the insurance market will firm within the next year or so. Hard markets usually result in substantial premium increases and major reductions in coverage. I will get a refresher on steps to take now to make certain we are armed and ready for whatever market realities face us on our next renewal.
• Registration fees have not increased in four years. This year’s standard Conference fees are the same as we charged in 2007. Plus, if you have never attended before you qualify for a 50 percent discount. Your fee includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch every day, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at Tuesday night’s reception, which will further defray your costs of attendance.
• Meet construction underwriters and build your relationships with them. Developing long-term relationships is an important component of managing insurance programs. Since construction is not your core business, an efficient opportunity to meet with your underwriters is even more important. With the major construction underwriters all gathered in one place at one time, attending provides a great opportunity to start new and enhance existing relationships.
• Low travel costs add to your savings. Airfares are the lowest they have been in quite some time.
• Attend with your agent or broker to develop your team. The most effective approach to managing risk is to take a team approach with your primary risk adviser. You won’t find a better way to get new ideas for safeguarding your project or shaving costs than to attend sessions together, discuss the implications to your organization, and develop an action plan for implementation while on-site.
• Network with and learn from other owners as well as contractors. Attend the Risk Managers Roundtable and other events where you can meet with others who face the same problems as you. You’ll be surprised at how willing construction risk managers are to give you useful advice outside the sometimes adversarial circumstances of a contract bidding situation. Swap ideas with them on-site and develop a network of informed colleagues around the country from whom you can seek advice when you encounter challenges in the future.
• Just one new idea from this meeting can add many times the cost to attend to your company’s bottom line. You will not find a better forum to learn the latest construction risk management and insurance trends, strategies, and tactics than the workshops and networking events at this Conference. We are so confident about the program’s quality that we promise to refund your Conference fee if you feel you didn’t get new ideas to reduce your cost of risk, enhance your risk management program, or improve your insurance coverages.
• Improve your risk management program by understanding the needs and concerns of the contractors on your projects. With both general contractors and trade contractors represented in the audience and at the podiums, you can develop a much better understanding of their needs and concerns. Use this knowledge to increase cooperation among the parties on your projects toward the shared goal of eliminating accidents and improving construction quality.
• Satisfy your continuing education requirements. If you need to obtain CPE, CLE, or AIA continuing education credit, you can fulfill some if not all your requirements by attending.
• Gain the knowledge you need to pass a CRIS exam and start your way toward the certification. If you aren’t yet certified as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist, a full-day workshop on Monday will cover the material for one of the courses and prepare you to pass the exam.
• Get the credit you need to keep your CRIS certification. If you have earned the CRIS certification, attending 7 hours of workshops will qualify you for reaccreditation.

Agents and Brokers

• Prepare for the possibility of a hard market. We have been in a soft insurance market for more than five years. While no one can say for certain when it will turn, some insurance professionals believe the insurance market will firm within the next year or so. Hard markets usually result in substantial premium increases and major reductions in coverage. I will get a refresher on steps to take now to make certain we are armed and ready for whatever market realities face us on our next renewal.
• Satisfy all your CE requirements at one Conference. If you attend all the workshops and satisfy the attendance monitoring requirements imposed by your state you will earn enough insurance CE credit to satisfy the annual requirement of most states (credit is contingent on approval by regulators in each state and the amount varies by state).
• Registration fees have not increased in four years. This year’s standard Conference fees are the same as we charged in 2007. Your fee includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch every day, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at Tuesday night’s reception, which will further defray your costs of attendance. We are so confident about the program’s quality that we promise to refund your Conference fee if you feel you didn’t get valuable new ideas and expand your network in ways that will improve your ability to serve your clients.
• Attend with an owner or contractor-client or prospect to develop your team. You won’t find a better way to demonstrate your knowledge and industry focus to your top account or important prospect while building a deep and long-lasting relationship than to attend the Conference together. Carefully choose the best workshops to get new ideas for safeguarding their company or shaving costs. Attend sessions together, discuss the implications to the organization, and develop an action plan for implementation while on-site. And don’t forget: if your contractor or project owner client has never before attended, the registration fee is discounted by 50 percent or membership in CFMA or AGC earns them 15 percent off!
• Meet underwriters and build your relationships with them. There is considerable movement and change occurring in the construction insurance marketplace. With all the top underwriters gathered in one place you won’t have a better opportunity to meet with your important markets and develop new ones.
• Get new ideas to save your clients money, enhance their risk management programs, or improve their insurance coverages. You will not find a better forum to learn the latest construction risk management and insurance trends, strategies, and tactics than the workshops and networking events at this Conference. Even if you are an experienced veteran of many past Conferences, you will gain new knowledge if you select workshops that focus on areas other than your specialty.
• Learn about the latest coverage developments affecting construction. Insurance coverage (and the courts’ interpretations of coverage) is continuously evolving. To properly serve your contractor accounts and maximize your own revenues, it is imperative that you keep up with the latest trends and developments. Nowhere else will you find an educational program as focused on construction insurance trends and tactics—nor more knowledgeable fellow attendees to bounce ideas off of—than this one.
• Gain the knowledge you need to pass a CRIS exam and start your way toward the certification. If you aren’t yet certified as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist, a full-day workshop on Monday will cover the material for one of the courses and prepare you to pass the exam.
• Get the credit you need to keep your CRIS certification. If you have earned the CRIS certification, attending 7 hours of workshops will qualify you for reaccreditation.
• Develop your own personal brand as a top construction agent or broker. By interacting with the top players in construction risk and insurance you will develop and enhance your own reputation as a go-to person in the industry. At the same time you will be developing the brand of your agency or brokerage firm by representing it in a professional manner and through your listing in the attendee list—the “who’s who” of construction risk and insurance.
• Low travel costs add to your savings. Airfares are the lowest they have been in quite some time.

Underwriters

• Prepare for the possibility of a hard market. We have been in a soft insurance market for more than five years. While no one can say for certain when it will turn, some insurance professionals believe the insurance market will firm within the next year or so. Learn what steps to take now to make certain you and your colleagues have the knowledge and tools you need to manage the change if it occurs.
• Registration fees have not increased in four years. This year’s standard Conference fees are the same as we charged in 2007. Your fee includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch every day, and cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at Tuesday night’s reception, which will further defray your costs of attendance. We are so confident about the program’s quality that we promise to refund your Conference fee if you feel you don’t get valuable new ideas and expand your network in ways that will improve your ability to serve your clients.
• Meet with your agents, brokers, and customers to build your relationships with them. Developing relationships is an important step in building your construction book and keeping the accounts you already write. With all the top agents, brokers, and risk managers gathered in one place you won’t have a better opportunity to meet with your important contacts and develop new ones.
• Encourage one of your top brokers to attend with you to develop a team approach. You won’t find a better way to demonstrate your knowledge and industry focus to your top broker while building a deep and long-lasting relationship than to attend the Conference together. Carefully choose the best workshops to get new ideas for working together to increase your construction books. Attend sessions together, discuss how they apply to your mutual clients and prospects, and develop an implementation plan to put in place when you return home.
• Learn about the latest coverage developments affecting construction. Insurance coverage (and the courts’ interpretations of coverage) is continuously evolving. To properly serve your contractor accounts and maximize your own revenues, it is imperative that you keep up with the latest trends and developments. You will not find another educational program as focused on construction insurance trends and tactics—nor more knowledgeable fellow attendees to bounce ideas off of—than this Conference. Even if you are an experienced veteran of many past Conferences, you will gain new knowledge if you select workshops that focus on areas other than your specialty.
• Glean market intelligence on what your competitors are up to. There is considerable movement and change occurring in the construction insurance marketplace. With all the top brokers and underwriters gathered in one place you won’t have a better opportunity to learn the latest developments. Where else can you pick the brains of other underwriters and brokers in a neutral forum?
• Gain the knowledge you need to pass a CRIS exam and start your way toward the certification. If you aren’t yet certified as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist, a full-day workshop on Monday will cover the material for one of the courses and prepare you to pass the exam.
• Get the credit you need to keep your CRIS certification. If you have earned the CRIS certification, attending 7 hours of workshops will qualify you for reaccreditation.
• Develop your own personal brand as a top construction risk professional. By interacting with the top players in construction risk and insurance you will develop and enhance your own reputation as a go-to person in the industry. At the same time you will be developing the brand of your company by representing it in a professional manner and through your listing in the attendee list—the “who’s who” of construction risk and insurance.
• Low travel costs add to your savings. Airfares are the lowest they have been in quite some time.

Attorneys

• Get Away from the Typical CLE Crowd. Instead of spending your CLE time in a seminar with other attorneys rehashing legal issues you already know by heart, associate with an interesting group of risk professionals from across the country to gain fresh new perspectives, develop prospective clients, and learn about the preloss measures that are taken to manage risks.
• Meet with agents, brokers, underwriters, and contractors to build relationships with them. Developing relationships is an important step in building your construction or insurance law practice. With all the top agents, brokers, insurers, and risk managers gathered in one place you won’t have a better opportunity to meet with and develop relationships with decision makers.
• Network with and learn from other attorneys. The Conference is not heavily attended by attorneys, but those who go are very knowledgeable and very friendly. By networking with them you can develop a powerful national network of well-connected construction and insurance law professionals.
• Learn about the latest coverage developments affecting construction. Insurance coverage is continuously evolving, and most attorneys don’t have a clue about what insurers are doing with policy forms today because they are dealing with issues of the past. This program gives you an opportunity to learn what is coming down the pike by revealing the latest construction insurance trends and tactics.
• Attend with a client to develop your team. You won’t find a better way to demonstrate your knowledge and industry focus to your important client while building a deep and long-lasting relationship than to attend the Conference together. Carefully choose the best workshops to get new ideas for safeguarding their company or shaving costs. Attend sessions together, discuss the implications to the organization, and develop an action plan for implementation while on-site. And don’t forget: if your contractor or project owner client has never before attended, the registration fee is discounted by 50 percent or membership in CFMA or AGC earns them 15 percent off!
• Get CLE credit in most states. We file the Conference for CLE credit in certain states. Most of the remaining states will approve credit after you have attended. We provide you with the documentation you need to make a self-filing in those states.
• Registration fees have not increased in four years. This year’s standard Conference fees are the same as we charged in 2007. Your fee includes continental breakfast each morning, lunch every day, and heavy hors d’oeuvres at Tuesday night’s reception, which will further defray your costs of attendance. We are so confident about the program’s quality that we promise to refund your Conference fee if you feel you didn’t get valuable new ideas and expand your network in ways that will improve your ability to serve your clients.
• Low travel costs add to your savings. Airfares are the lowest they have been in quite some time.
• Gain the knowledge you need to pass a CRIS exam and start your way toward the certification. If you aren’t yet certified as a Construction Risk and Insurance Specialist, a full-day workshop on Monday will cover the material for one of the courses and prepare you to pass the exam.
• Get the credit you need to keep your CRIS certification. If you have earned the CRIS certification, attending 7 hours of workshops will qualify you for reaccreditation.