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The 2010 ABIA Annual Conference, September 22 - 24, 2010

Wednesday September 22, 2010

Best Practice Panel Sessions– Concurrent Presentations and Peer Group Discussions

4:20 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.

Direct Marketing Panel - "Marketing Auto & HomeInsurance to Retail Customers"  Speaker: Leeann Flynn, CitiMortgage

Life Coverages Panel - "Changing the Paradigm Using Technology to Drive Bank Sales" Speaker: Gary R. Esposito, HSBC Insurance - Presentation to be provided at session

Compliance - "Basic Bank-Insurance Compliance: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know About it" Speakers: Jim McIntyre and Chrys Lemon, McIntyre & Lemon, PLLC

Community Bankers Panel - "Strategies to Provide P&C Insurance to the Banks Core Customer Base"  Speaker: Brian Duffy, RSI Insurance Agency

Annuities/Wealth Management Panel - "New LTC Hybrid Annuities: Are They Right for Your Organization?" Moderator: Jim Rensel , Sales Quality Research Group, Speakers: Robert Carr, Jr., Commercial Brokerage Services, Inc.; Bryan Kucholtz, Comerica Wealth Management; Carol Flemma, M&I Financial Advisors; Scott Stathis Kehrer-LIMRA.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Banker Power Breakfast

7:45 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.

 

"Peace of Mind Plan" Speakers: Kathy Lannen, Coverdell and Ed Navarro, Zurich Accident and Health Group - material will provided during session

 

"Medicare Gold Rush - How to Profit From It" Speakers: Bernie Lillis and Jon Hamilton, Insurance Dialogue - material will provided during session

 

Opening Ceremony

General Session

8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

"Executive Summary of the 2010 Study of Banks in Insurance"- Speaker: Jim Campbell, Reagan Consulting (presentation will be available after the conference and copies of the 2010 Study of Banks in Insurance are available for purchase.

 

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Series 1

10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and repeat 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

 

Track 1A Credit Insurance and Debt Cancellation - "Evolution of Debt Protection Products - Wells Fargo Credit Cards"  Speakers: Cheryl Sindelar Wells Fargo Enhancement and Rewards Services and Carolyn Gonzales, Wells Fargo Insurance Services

 

Track 1B Producer Management - "Managing Producer Accountability" - Speaker: Joseph Teresi , First Niagara Risk Management

 

Track 1C Agency Management - "Employee Benefits Practice - A Good Revenue Stream for Uncertain Times William Bohn, Associated Financial Group, LLC

 

Track 1D P&C - "Building Customized/Branded Programs by Mapping the Banks Customer SIC Codes" Speaker: Joseph M. Frankovich, Huntington Insurance/Huntington Bancshares

 

Track 1E Annuity/Wealth Management - "The Status of the Annuity Business: Will the Roller-Coaster Ride Continue" Moderator: Jim Rensel, Sales Quality Research; Speakers: R. Randall Bluth, Hancock Investments; Agnes Lew, Cathay Wealth Management; and Scott Stathis, Kehrer-LIMRA

 

Track 1F Compliance - "Advance Bank-Insurance Compliance" Speakers: Jim McIntyre and Chrys Lemon, McIntyre & Lemon, PLLC

 

Track 1G Other Agency Products and Services - "A Paradigm Shift to Defined Contribution Health Care" Speaker: Marc Capuano, Huntington Insurance

 

Lunch and Peer Networking in the Exhibit Hall

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

 

2: 00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Concurrent General Sessions

 

Community Bank Session

Expanding the Revenue Stream in Changing Economic Times - Moderator: Val Teagarden, First United Insurance Group; Speakers: Ross Barnette , Central Insurance Services; Terry Mead, The Avon-Dixon Agency, LLC (Shore Bancshares); and Camors C. "Chris" Roth, Hancock Insurance Agency

 

Large Bank Session

Insurance Industry Overview from the Large Bank Perspective - Moderator: Rick Spickard , PNC Insurance Services; Speakers: Thomas Anderson , BW Insurance Agency, Inc.; Peter Dunlap, Huntington Insurance, Inc.; Joseph Fico, TD Insurance

 

  

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Series 2

3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. and repeats 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

Track 2A Direct Marketing"Using Social Media as a Marketing Channel" Speakers: Robert Dudacek  and Jedd Taylor, Wells Fargo Insurance Inc.

 

Track 2B Mergers & Acquisition - "Bank Owned Insurance Agencies: A Time to Buy or The Need to Sell?" Speaker: Markham McKnight, BancorpSouth Insurance Services

 

Track 2C Producer Management "Managing to Grow Agency Revenue" Speaker: Peter Dunlap, Huntington Insurance Inc.

Track 2D Agency Management "Using Technology to Increase Bank-Insurance Sales" Speakers: David Frank and Paul Fisher, Farmers National Bank

 

Track 2E Captive Management/Risk Management "The Role of Bank Captives and Risk Management in Bank-Owned Agencies" Speakers:  Nancy Korcinsky, PNC Insurance Services, LLC and Chris O'Donnell, M&T Bank

Track 2F Debt Protection Products - "Everything You Needed to Know About Compliance Credit Protection Products"Speakers: Jim McIntyre and Chrys Lemon, McIntyre & Lemon, PLLC and Jim Sivon, Barnette, Sivon and Natter, P.C.

Track 2G Other Agency Products and Services - "Selling Insurance to Bank Customers - News from the Front" Moderator: Neal Aton, Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc.; Speakers: Thomas Anderson, BW Insurance Agency, Inc. and J.Keith Pellerin, Bank of America

(Roundtable discussion, no handouts)

Friday, September 24, 2010

 

Banker Power Breakfast   

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

 

"Retention, Loyalty and Engagement: Insurance Achieves All Three" Speaker: Wayne Conte, Affinion Group (material provided at the session)

 

General Sessions

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 

 

 "Outlook for the New Economy and Industry" Speaker: James Chessen, Chief Economist, American Bankers Association   9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

 

"Government Policy Roundtable" Moderator: J.Kevin McKechnie, Executive Director, American Bankers Insurance Association; Panelists: Robert Dameron , Kentucky House of Representatives; James Donelon, Commissioner of Insurance State of Louisiana; James McIntyre, McIntyre & Lemon, PLLC; Markham McKnight, BancorpSouth Insurance Services; and Travis Plunkett, Consumer Federation of America