Besides the annual Career Development Seminar, coming up July 30 - August 1 in New Orleans, the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society has three other sets of seminars and schools to encourage professional development in the critical area of insurance regulation.

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Market Conduct School

Another annual school is conducted by the IRES Foundation, covering market conduct issues and trends for the insurance industry, compliance professionals, law firms and consultants.

The next session of the Foundation's Market Conduct School will be April 8-10, 2001, at the Westin Savannah Harbor Resort on exclusive Hutchinson Island, fronting historic Savannah, Georgia. Click here to register online. Presenters usually include insurance commissioners and senior market conduct regulators from more than a dozen states. The agenda is still being set, so watch this space. To give you an idea, here's the agenda from the '00 Market Conduct School, conducted last April in California.

Sunday   Monday   Tuesday
    Keynote Address   State Round Robins
Registration   Insurance Business in an Electronic World   Solving the Privacy Conundrum
    Market Conduct Enforcement and Penalties   The ABCs of Market Conduct
    Banking, Insurance and Securities   Conducting the Efficient Market Conduct Examination
Welcome reception   Roundtable on NARAB, NAIC the PDB and NIPR   Class Action Litigation in Insurance
    Consultants' Showcase   The Firing line
 
 
Regulating the Marketplace

Every spring, IRES and the NAIC cosponsor a week-long advanced training session for experienced market conduct regulators, designed for those who work in market conduct, complaint handling, consumer services, producer licensing, rate and form review or enforcement and compliance.

The 2001 meeting is coming up May 14-17 at NAIC headquarters in Kansas City. Topics to be covered include a market conduct case study, model laws and regulations, federal health insurance regulatory issues, handling consumer complaints, financial regulation for market regulators, issues in rate and form review, regulating producers, enforcement and prosecution, combating fraud, NAIC software and databases, market conduct issues, health issues, coordinated examinations, the Internet and E-commerce and a market conduct roundtable.

The registration deadline is April 27. Tuition for the three-and-a-half-day program is $450 for state insurance department staff and $650 for all other regulators. For additional information, a copy of the brochure or to register, contact NAIC's education desk at 816-374-7192, or click here to send them an E-mail.