I always loved this Texan saying, and it is so appropriate as I am heading off to San Antonio to the humongous RIMS conference there next week and I have neither hat nor cattle.
A small, but intrepid, Vermont contingent heads to the RIMS conference every year where we proselytize on the magnificence of captives to the passing hoard (usually about 10,000 or so folks). Ian Davis will be our valiant captain as a bunch of us hang out at the cool Vermont booth for the conference. And Dave Provost and a number of the DFR champions will join us as well. So if you are going to be down there, please swing by the booth and grab a bowl of Ben & Jerry’s or pure Vermont maple syrup!
Speaking about the opposite of All Hat, No Cattle, Business Insurance handed out a couple of their 2018 US insurance awards to risk management programs recently, and one of our outstanding members picked up a trophy. The honor for 2018 Risk Management Team of the Year went to global electrical power company AES Corp., American International Group Inc. and Marsh L.L.C. for their innovative approach of embedding terrorism and resultant damage cyber coverage within AES’ existing global captive property program, eliminating potential gaps between policies, providing additional limits and expanding cover to all AES insured assets. Andrew Baillie, program director of global insurance for AES, is the facilitator at our session of captive owners looking at international issues at VCIA’s annual conference this August.
Registration for the VCIA Annual Conference opens May 1st. We look forward to seeing many of you there for another excellent program! Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.
Rich Smith
VCIA President
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