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ROBERT W. STRAIN
Publishing and Reinsurance Seminars Incorporated
since 1984
P.O. Box 1520, Athens Texas 75751-1520
(903) 677-5974 from 9 to 3
E-mail: strainrw@aol.com Website: www.strainpublishinginc.com

 

You. . .

are cordially invited

to the thirty-eighth

training course

 

New date, April 2010!

Reinsurance and Contract Wording
Textbook Training Course


April 20 - 23, 2010
DoubleTree Fort Lee Hotel at the George Washington Bridge (20 minutes from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, 30 minutes from Newark Airport, 15 minutes from Times Square, international flights at JFK Airport, 45 minutes) Fort Lee, New Jersey

The faculty is outstanding:

15 reinsurance experts sharing their knowledge and experience from years of successful achievement. Bring your difficult questions.

The schedule is impressive:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26 learning sessions in reinsurance and contract language, including:

  • Property pro rata, per risk excess (2 sessions)
  • Reinsurance accounting and finance (2 sessions)
  • Buying catastrophe reinsurance, its critical clauses
  • Alternative risk transfer or management (2 sessions)
  • Casualty clauses  (2 sessions)
  • Claims clauses common to excess of loss  (2 sessions)
  • Insolvency, commutation, and offset clauses
  • Contract drafting techniques (2 sessions)
  • Planning and managing a reinsurance program
  • XPL, ECO, bad faith, and declaratory judgment expense clauses
  • Arbitration, mediation, and life reinsurance
  • Markets and Issues: U.S., U.K., and Bermuda
  • Reinsurance statutes and regulations
  • Special clauses and endorsements

And the price is right, because everything is included:

$3,145*- which includes:    (see below ** for $200 discount)

LODGING: Four days and three nights;

BOOKS: Considered the bible in the industry and now sold in 85 countries - Reinsurance and Reinsurance Contract Wording, 1,650 pages;

FOOD: Three breakfast buffets, three luncheon buffets, and three dinners, with restaurant style service (including choice of 3 entrees each evening: beef, chicken, fish);

BEVERAGES: Six soda and coffee breaks, (with freshly baked cookies from the hotel’s master chef); and three, open-bar, 45-minute social hours;

EXECUTIVE SWIVEL CHAIRS FOR COMFORT: “Tailormade” rentals;

COURSE NOTEBOOK: Prepared for each course, (last year: 608 pages);

AUDIO AND VISUAL TECHNICIAN: Full-time on site to assure audio and visual perfection in sound and sight throughout the week.

44 HOURS TO MEET WITH REINSURANCE EXPERTS TO ASK QUESTIONS AND SHARE EXPERIENCES: A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

 

The course is intended for non-beginners with two to ten years of experience in reinsurance

or those who have read all assigned readings herein. Advance reading of the two books will increase your educational investment, for which early registration is urged.

CPE/CLE Credits:

This course has been granted credit by California, Colorado (7108: 22 CE credits), and CLE credits in California, Missouri (23.8 credits), New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (19 CLE credits awarded by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board to attorneys licensed there as well as attorneys licensed in reciprocating states, per Provider 2127, Course 38761). Other states have approved it in prior years.

Note:
Copyrighted by Robert W. Strain. The two books are available for only $450, including shipping in the U.S.

*Deduct $200 per book if Reinsurance or Reinsurance Contract Wording is not needed, and $300 if lodging is not needed.  **For each of 2 or more applicants per company, deduct $200.

 

The 37th Course in 2009 received the third highest audience rating in its 25-year history:

 

 

“This has been the best seminar I have attended. It was well organized and had excellent speakers!”

“This was a very good course and a good investment of my time and money.”

“The course was outstanding. As an attorney, I feel the program has given me a solid foundation to more fully counsel clients and make forays into new business opportunities. There is nothing on this level and scope available elsewhere.”

“This was my first year and I enjoyed it very much. I would definitely recommend it to my colleagues. I felt this seminar was very informative and well organized.”

 

“In overall, it was the most helpful and informative seminar I’ve ever attended. The faculty is highly experienced, and most of them are didact.”

 

“All presentations were excellent!.”

 

                 ABOUT THE DIRECTOR


Dr. Robert W. Strain, CPCU, CLU, is an authority in the field of insurance and reinsurance. He has created and conducted seminars for insurance professionals since 1967. He was dean for twenty years and vice president of The College of Insurance in New York, executive secretary of the National Association of Insurance Agents, and an insurance commissioner in Texas. He has been a professor of insurance at both the University of Texas and Indiana University. He edited and published: Reinsurance in its original 1980 edition, revised in 1997; the world's first book on Reinsurance Contract Wording in 1992, revised slightly in 1996; Reaseguros, 2001, the Spanish translation of Reinsurance, 1997; and the annual Reinsurance Directory, published for twenty-four years (1983-2007). In accounting, he edited the first edition of IASA's Life Insurance Accounting and the first four editions of its Property-Liability Insurance Accounting.