RAPA News

Reminder----only two months remain until we gather for the 2018 Fall conference in New Orleans.   Rooms are filling fast.  Please go to the RAPA website link shown  below to reserve your hotel accommodations and to register for the conference. Anyone considering arriving prior to Sunday and/ or staying later than Tuesday must now reserve directly with Rhonda Thibaut, Sales Manager at 504-529-7028.  Once the allotment of rooms available for pre and post conference is reached, a request for rooms pre and post conference will be subject to availability at the hotels prevailing rates. https://reinsadmin.org/product/rapa-fall-conference-registration/ We look forward to seeing you…

We had excellent attendance at the RAPA spring meeting.  Thanks to the RAPA council and Planning committee, as well as Logiq3 Cookhouse Lab for providing us with space to hold our meeting.  The following is a link to the presentation slides: 2018-RAPA-Spring-Meeting - FINAL.    Check out what’s in the works by the various committees.   If you are interested in joining any of the committees, please reach out to Eddie Martinez at edgar.martinez@axa.us.com.   Every bit of your input counts! Please note that registration for the fall RAPA conference is now open online (https://reinsadmin.org/product/rapa-fall-conference-registration/). Hurry now to receive your early bird rate.   …

Spring Meeting:  A reminder that this years annual spring meeting will be held on Wed April 18, 2018 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm at LOGiQ3 offices, located at 60 Adelaide Street East, Suite 1300 Toronto, Ontario (https://goo.gl/maps/5kAQ2Z2usFr). Lunch will be provided, followed by updates from the RAPA Board of Governors and Initiative Leads. Please RSVP your attendance to RAPA’s Planning Committee at Kelly.Priest@logiq3.com. Membership Renewal:  If you haven’t done so already, please renew your membership for 2018 on-line https://reinsadmin.org/membership-information/.  The fee is $75 for both voting and non-voting members.  Likewise, if you know anyone or any organization that would benefit from…

Dear All, As part of the RAPA Innovation Initiative, we are asking all RAPA members to take a moment to complete this 1 question survey.  This survey contains the Top 3 innovation ideas from the group that most notably addresses known and wide-scale industry problems. Link:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdy-V1-gEqoK5C7PsdKrjUy4ECGNP1DnnEW6fszAOWDksGjDw/viewform The group’s approach is to take these hypotheses and bring them to you, the experts, to identify the most wide scale issue we face today.  Since tackling this problem will not be a simple task, the innovation subcommittee will take first steps to organize ourselves and produce an industry whitepaper delivered and shared…

The 20th Annual RAPA conference was an event to remember and a true testament to the dedication of the reinsurance professionals in our industry. We kicked off the event in the sunshine state at the Vinoy Renaissance in St. Petersburg, where sunny, hot and humid Florida weather welcomed us. Our conference planning committee set the stage for another fun meet and greet evening reception, by taking us back 20 years with some entertaining and competitive trivia, focused around the many TV shows and sitcoms of the 90’s that many of us were familiar with and loved. It ended with a…

The RAPA initiative teams: Membership, Communications, Data Management and Risk Management, have published exciting new content for our members and potential members. In efforts to promote growth within our association, the Membership and Communications team published the RAPA New Membership package. The primary goal of this document is to highlight the importance of RAPA in the insurance industry and attract members. This package summarizes the association, initiatives, includes geographic/industry channel demographics, and most importantly, outlines the benefits to both, your organization and career. To view the new membership package, please visit RAPA’s membership page: https://reinsadmin.org/membership-information/ The Data Management team has produced…