Property Insurance Report
National Conference 2012
Registration Is Open for Property Insurance Report Conference
Registration has opened for the 2012 Property Insurance Report National Conference, to be held November 4-6 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, California.
Although it can be argued that insurers always cared about property insurance, the past three years have seen dramatically greater efforts to improve underwriting, pricing, product design and claims management of this enormous and tricky business. Now you can add to the mix a surge in carefully placed marketing and advertising, particularly online and by direct response marketers. Reflecting this activity, the number of attendees at our conference has surged by a third, as insurers look harder than ever for ways to control their own performance, rather than waiting for Mother Nature to control them.
In the past year, the Midwest has remained the industry’s biggest challenge, but the hurricane season will soon be upon us. Earthquakes have no season, and the threat always looms. Across the country insurers need to be smarter, better prepared and more skilled at communicating with consumers if they want to break away from the sub-par profits of many competitors. Aware of the challenges, we promise to once again focus our sessions on high-impact topics around underwriting, pricing, claims, marketing, regulation, and more.
We are thrilled to bring the meeting for the first time to St. Regis Monarch Beach, home to our recently completed Auto Insurance Report National Conference. This five-diamond hotel is surrounded by pristine beaches, world class golf courses (including a great course right on the property), and stunning ocean views and sunsets. While ours is definitely a working meeting, we encourage you to think hard about bringing a guest or your family and taking advantage of this great resort and the other wonders of Southern California. The St. Regis has easy access through Orange County Airport (SNA), Long Beach (LGB) or Los Angeles International (LAX). Our discounted room rates will be available for the weekend before and for few days after the conference. The best overview of the property can be found at address: www.stregismb.com.
This year we are expecting another large turnout, and we may sell out the room as we have done for each of our prior insurance conferences. We encourage you to register early if you wish to attend. It is also important to reserve a room at the St. Regis right away – that is a separate process from the conference registration – because the hotel is likely to sell out before the meeting, especially at our discounted room rates.
To reserve your space at the conference, just send payment with the enclosed form to our conference office. If paying by credit card, fill out the form and fax it in. If paying by check, mail the form and the check together. Prior attendees will enjoy a $100 earlybird discount until July 31, 2012. In addition, there is a $100 discount for prior conference attendees and newsletter subscribers. As an early registrant and subscriber, you will save a total of $200 off the regular registration price. Your special earlybird rate is $1299 for the entire conference.
Thanks to our history of filling hotel rooms months in advance, the St. Regis Monarch Beach is offering Property Insurance Report National Conference attendees deeply discounted rates as low as $260 a night. There are three ways to reserve your room. To register online, click here. Or download a form at right that you can fax to the hotel. Or you can call hotel reservations at (949) 234-3200. In all cases, if you include your email address with your room reservation a confirmation number will be promptly emailed back to you.
When calling the St. Regis, be sure to identify yourself as a Property Insurance Report National Conference attendee. You can reserve a room at our discounted rates until October 3, 2012, or until our room block is gone, which has always been much sooner. Details on room rates, cancellation policies, etc., can be found on the hotel reservation form. Rooms are blocked only for registered conference attendees.
To track developments in the conference program, information about sponsors, and to see the attendee list as it develops, come back to this page and click on the links to the right.
The conference begins Sunday, November 4 with early registration and a reception with sponsors starting at 5 p.m.. On Monday, November 5, the sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., followed by a networking reception extraordinaire in the St. Regis’ beautiful Wine Cellar and the beautiful ocean and sunset views from the adjoining Wine Terrace. Tuesday, November 6, sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to noon, allowing time for lunch with other conference attendees and our sponsors, or golf, or afternoon business, or travel.
We look forward to having you join us this fall!
