For each of the past few years, we presented
IIABNY members with an opportunity to provide their thoughts concerning any
issues, topics, questions or suggestions they want us to consider for the following
year’s annual Errors and Omissions Loss Control seminars. For the 2015 seminar series,
more than half the topics we covered were suggested by IIABNY members. Because
we want to hear from you again, I am requesting you send me any issues or topics
you want us to consider when we prepare the outline for the 2016 seminars. Once
we hear back from you, we will prepare the seminar outline incorporating the various
suggestions we receive.
Even though we completed the 2015 E&O
seminar series in June, we usually start thinking shortly afterward about what
we will plan for the following year. Ordinarily, we prepare the seminar outline
in the late fall for the following year. This time frame allows sufficient time
for the New York State Department of Financial Services to approve the seminars
for continuing education credit and IIABNY to market the seminars to its
members in the spring.
Please also feel free to let us know about any issues or topics that you may want us to address in future issues of The E&O Report. Many of the topics we write about in The E&O Report originate from issues agents and brokers bring to our attention through telephone calls and emails. If you have any ideas in this regard, please reach out to me and let me know what you have in mind. From our experience, an issue that one New York insurance agent or broker is facing may actually be much larger and affect many other producers across the state.
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We encourage all IIABNY members to provide us
with feedback concerning any items they want us to include in the 2016 seminar outline.
Your issues, topics, questions or suggestions that relate to the seminars should
be sent to me by email at
jkeidel@kwcllp.com no later than Oct. 1,
2015. Please be sure to type “2016 Annual E&O Seminars” (without the quote
marks) in the subject line of your email message. We will use the input we
receive from IIABNY members to develop the outline.
We believe the annual E&O seminars IIABNY
presents are an extremely important loss control tool the association provides
to its members. This type of E&O seminar represents a form not offered in
other state, except New York. The difference between IIABNY’s annual seminars
and those in other states is our seminars change each year in order to address
current issues and topics of concern. This constant change allows IIABNY
members to keep current with important issues and topics. It also sets both
IIABNY and its members apart from others when it comes to E&O loss control.
Statistics show New York insurance agents and brokers that attend IIABNY’s
annual seminars are 39 percent less likely to experience an E&O claim or
lawsuit filed against them.
Mark your calendar because the dates have
already been set for the 2016 annual E&O seminars. Live seminars will be
presented at the following locations on the listed dates:
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Buffalo, May 3, 2016
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New York City, May 18, 2016
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Syracuse, May 4, 2016
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Westchester County, May 19, 2016
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Long Island, May 17, 2016
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The concluding telecast seminar will again be
presented live from Hudson Valley Community College in Troy on June 8,
2016 and simulcast live to 14 remote locations across New York state. Registration
for the seminars will be accepted in the early spring of 2016 (after the course
has been approved for CE credit by the DFS).
Thank you in advance for taking the time to share your ideas with us. The
feedback we receive from you helps make the IIABNY annual E&O seminars an
extremely valuable E&O loss prevention tool and learning experience for New
York insurance agents and brokers. We look forward to your attendance at the
2016 seminars.
Submitted by
James C. Keidel, Esq.
Keidel, Weldon & Cunningham, LLP