NRRA Announces Officers, Confab Changes

By Caroline McDonald

NU Online News Service, March 12, 12:30 p.m. EST,Orlando, Fla.?The National Risk Retention Associationelected new officers and directors to its board of directors Mondayat its annual conference here. The association also circulated aschedule for upcoming conferences?which will no longer be heldsimultaneously with the Captive Insurance CompaniesAssociation.

NRRA, which for three years has held its annual conferencejointly with CICA, said that it will begin holding its ownconferences Oct. 19-20 with the Fall Legislative & RegulatoryConference. NRRA's annual conference will take place Oct. 3-5,2004.

Douglas Barnes, executive director of NRRA, said the jointconference has been "a good idea that has served its purpose."

To best represent the interests of its members in the currentalternative risk environment, however, NRRA is planning aconference with a different venue in 2004. Mr. Barnes said NRRA isworking harder to address the needs of purchasing groups, whichwith risk retention groups make up its constituency. The currentboard, he said, better represents purchasing groups.

New officers for 2003, NRRA said, are board chair, Wendy Fisher,corporate secretary for the National Home Insurance Company,Aurora, Colo.; chair-elect and vice chair, Stephen R. Crim, vicepresident of American Safety Risk Retention Group Inc., Atlanta,Ga.; secretary, Kathleen H. Davis, Downs, Rachlin & Martin,PLLC, Burlington, Vt.; and treasurer, Janice Abraham, president andchief executive officer of United Educators Insurance ReciprocalRRG, Chevy Chase, Ma. Officers are elected annually by the board ofdirectors according to NRRA.

New directors, elected by members of the association for athree-year term, are Brian Donovan, president of Steel TankInsurance Company, Lake Zubich, Ill.; John Howard, principal of JHHoward Associates, LLC, Wilton, Conn.; Jim Leatzow, president ofCompliance & Filing Solutions, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Mark Wilson,chief financial officer and treasurer of Housing AuthorityInsurance Group, Cheshire, Conn.; and Marilyn Udis, vice presidentof the Mental Health RRG, Cedar Grove, N.J.