RISK MANAGEMENT:

June 6 – 9, 2010 | Orlando, FLFor more information, visit www.primacentral.org.

PRIMA’s 31st Annual Conference

Ron Hayes2009–2010 PRIMA PresidentRisk ManagerCalcasieu Parish School Board

John Nacht, ARMChair, 2010 Conference Planning CommitteeRisk Management Program AdministratorState of Washington, Employment Security Department

n behalf of the Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) board of directors and the 2010 conference planning committee, please accept this special invitation to join us for PRIMA’s 2010 Annual Conference in Orlando, FL.

This year’s conference theme is “Risk Management: It’s Quite the Ride!” If you manage risk in the public sector, you already know that risk management has its share of ups and downs. This year’s conference harnesses the knowledge of your risk management peers to make this ride a little smoother.

At the 2010 Annual Conference, you will have more than 50 educational sessions in eight tracks from which to choose, including an employee benefits track, school risk management, risk pooling and risk control. We’ve all heard that these topics are going to effect us sooner or later. Find out how your peers are addressing these new responsibilities.

A trip to PRIMA’s Annual Conference wouldn’t be complete without attending one of PRIMA’s popular networking events! Attendees can relax and unwind at PRIMA’s Sunday Welcome Reception and the Tuesday night social event. These events give attendees a unique opportunity to meet old risk management friends and make new ones. One of the greatest benefits of PRIMA’s conference is the chance to share what you know with your fellow practitioners!

As always, PRIMA’s conference will feature an extensive trade show with exhibitors who recognize the power and influence of public sector risk managers. They are ready to talk to you and learn what you need to make your job easier, more streamlined and more cost-effective. See what they have to offer YOUR entity.

There is no better way to start your summer than attending PRIMA’s 2010 Annual Conference in Orlando! We are certain you will find the conference and its sunny Florida location to be the ideal environment for learning, networking and sharing.

We look forward to seeing you June 6–9, 2010, in Orlando!

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ARM/RMPE TESTINGWouldn’t it be great to leave Orlando knowing you’re one step closer to earning your ARM or ARM-P designation? PRIMA will offer testing for the ARM54, ARM55, ARM56 and RMPE—all under one roof! Testing will be held on Sunday, June 6, at the Marriott Orlando World Center. Check the PRIMA Web site for further details.

2010 ANNUAL CONFERENCE SPONSORS(Confirmed as of December 1, 2009)

ACE USA

Bickmore Risk Services

Carl Warren & Company

CorVel Corporation

Downes Fishel Hass Kim LLP

Gallagher Public Entity and Scholastic Division

Genesis Underwriting Management Company

Global Intermediaries/SIRPRO

Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.

Poms and Associates Insurance Brokers, Inc.

Safety National Casualty Corp.

Travelers

GENERAL SESSIONS

John Powers is unlike anyone else. His unique and comical perspective gives audiences the kick-start they need to reach new levels of productivity. Strong leaders know that we are all teachers, whether we want to be or not; constantly teaching everyone around us who we are and what we believe life is all about. At the same time, we are students only when we choose to be—learning from those around us. A strong leader is a great sales person who knows how to sell a philosophy of management, a product, a standard of ethics, a sense of caring. A strong leader is not the focus of attention but rather is the source of it for others. A true leader is a wizard who gives people faith in themselves. No organization, no company, no business has ever succeeded without great leadership, without great wizards. During his keynote presentation, Powers will discuss the art and science of leadership using his own special approach.

Dr. John Powers Wednesday, June 9

Lions Walk Softly So They Can Listen

“How swift flows the tide that bears you along…how crucial the choices you make day by day” (from one of Austin’s poems). Change presents our most constant challenge as well as our greatest opportunity. We resist change even as we speed toward it. Austin’s presentation will teach you how to compete smarter, lead smarter, work smarter…all while keeping up, getting ahead, keeping sanity intact and increasing your value for a vital future! Staying up and motivated during down times is central to pushing the edge in today’s unpredictable economy. Renewed purposefulness can create a vastly different and far more profitable scenario than merely spinning your wheels on the “status quo plateau.”

Austin’s captivating and entertaining program is the perfect combination of solid expert substance, contagious warmth and original humor.

Emory Austin Monday, June 7

Yours is the Vision

Visit www.primacentral.org for a list of current EXHIBITORS.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6Golf OutingHosted by the Central Florida Chapter of PRIMA

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to play and network on the beautiful golf course at Shingle Creek Golf Club. Golf registration fee is $50/public entity, $100/corporate and includes transportation from the conference hotel, greens fees, cart and range balls. For more information on the PRIMA 2010 Annual Conference Golf Outing, Shingle Creek Golf Club or to register, go to the Central Florida Chapter’s Web site at www.centralfloridaprima.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 6Welcome Reception

Join fellow attendees and exhibitors in the annual gathering that kicks off the best educational event and trade show in public risk management. There’s no better way to get into the conference frame of mind than by networking with fellow leaders in your industry, building new relationships and meeting up with old friends!

TUESDAY, JUNE 8PRIMA’s Annual Conference Signature Event

Join us at PRIMA’s signature conference networking experience. This year’s event will continue in past traditions with music, dancing, great food and plenty of networking with the best in the risk management industry! This event will definitely be Quite the Ride!

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9PRIMA Fun Run/Walk

The PRIMA Fun Run/Walk is your chance to start your day off right, with a vigorous run or walk with your risk management colleagues. Get your blood pumping bright and early and enjoy refreshments, great networking, lots of laughs and the refreshing feeling of starting your day off with exercise! Register at www.primacentral.org.

NETWORKING EVENTS

PRIMA has Gone Green! Continuing with our tradition of going green, PRIMA will not be providing printed handouts at the conference. Instead, conference attendees will have access to ALL education session handouts online. Presentation handouts will be available on our Web site on May 1, 2010. Conference registrants may log in to print handouts or review presentations before deciding which sessions to attend. Visit www.primacentral.org for more information on this enhanced offering for attendees.

Employee Benefits/Human Resources• Leadership: Pay Attention, Improve and Guide• Managing Employment Risk During A Slowing Economy• Necessity is the Mother of Reinvention: Wellness Recycled• Responding to Allegations of Sexual Harassment• Workplace Violence: Practical Planning and Response Protocols

Enterprise Risk Management• ERM Roundtable• Implementing ERM: Pitfalls, Pratfalls and Hurrahs• PRIMA’s External Affairs Committee Presents

ISO 31000—What’s It All About?• Stealth ERM: Department by Department

Legal and Regulatory• Dams Construction Contracts, Hold Harmless Agreements

and Purchase Orders: How Important Controls Can Save You From Looking Goofy

• Employment Practices Liability Coverage Update: There is a Dead Mountain Lion in the Back of the Company Vehicle

• Enforcement Jails and Holding Cell Strip Search Liabilities• Environmental Risk and Insurance• Intricacies of 1983 Federal Civil Rights Claims• Prelitigation Proactivity in Handling Catastrophic Injury Claims• Public Entity Operations Impacted by Recent Supreme

Court Decisions• Saving Money and Saving Lives: Reducing Law Enforcement Liability• Understanding Law and Legal Principles

Management and Administration• Breaking the Cycle of Boring Statistical Reviews• Cost Allocation: The Next Generation• Cutting-Edge Benefit Strategies to Control Costs• Local Government Employee Clinics: Best Practice Models• Negotiation 101• The Three-Hour MPA

Pooling • An Introduction to Giving/Receiving Employee Feedback

• Dynamic Reinsurance Modeling for Pools

• Pool Information Exchange

• Strategies for Improving Property Reinsurance Submissions

Risk Control• Crisis Control or Out of Control?• How to Bulletproof Your Volunteers• Risk Modeling: Data, Information and Action• The ABCs of Facility Management Programming• Working with Dumbo and Goofy: The Risk Control Impact

of Workplace Incivility

Risk Management• Contractual Risk Transfer: Is it Worth the Trouble?• Do You PAY or Do You PAY BIG?• Don’t ‘Mickey Mouse’ Around with Property Values• How to Read Your Insurance Policy• Loss Run Analysis: A Qualitative Approach• New to Risk Management? Make a Difference Tomorrow• Secrets of a Workers’ Compensation Insurance Shopaholic• Understanding Insurance Market Cycles: The Good, the Bad

and the Ugly

Safety and Loss Control • Adjuster and Actuary: Artist and Scientist• Community Safety Leadership: A Successful Public Safety Program• Florida Public Entities Reveal Methods for Success and Savings• How to Read Your Actuarial Report• Impacting Liability through Policy, Training and Supervision• Pandemic Controls and Responses: A Program Check-up on

Your Crisis Management Plan and its Needed Integration into the Federal National Response Plan

• Public Safety: Why Things Go Right, Why Things Go Wrong• Safety and Our Aging Workforce• The OSHA Inspector Cometh

School Risk Management • 21st Century Experimental Prototype Classroom of Tomorrow• Building the Framework for Your Public Institution’s Total Cost

of Risk (This session presented by the University Risk Management and Insurance Association.)

• Education Professionals Roundtable

• Reducing Aggressive Sexual Behavior Claims in Schools

• School Transportation Threats: Are You Prepared?

2010 EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS(Subject to Change)

Check the PRIMA Web site for a detailed educational session agenda, available March 1, 2010.

Attendees will receive a special rate of $179 single/double. All rooms are subject to state and local occupancy taxes which are currently 12.5% per room per night occupied. The conference rate is available three days prior and three days post the conference dates, subject to availability.

To guarantee these rates, reservations must be made by Friday, May 14, 2010. To reserve your room, call the Marriott’s reservations department at 800.380.7931 and inform them that you will be attending the PRIMA conference to receive the group rate. Reservations must be accompanied by a deposit equal to one night’s stay, including occupancy tax, via either credit card, personal check or money order. Please see the PRIMA Housing Policies for cancellation and refund information.

Reservations at the Orlando World Center Marriott must be accompanied by a deposit equal to one-night’s room and tax to guarantee the reservation. All cancellations must be made at least 30 days prior to arrival to receive a refund of the deposit. Any and all cancellations made within 30 days of arrival will forfeit the entire deposit. Anyone booking more than eight room nights will be required to sign a room block contract with PRIMA, and will be held to the Hotel’s attrition and cancellation policies as per their contract.

For questions regarding hotel reservations contact Catherine Pawlowicz, PRIMA manager of meetings and conferences, at 703.253.1263 or cpawlowicz@primacentral.org.

GROUND TRANSPORTATIONThere are two convenient forms of transportation between Orlando International Airport and the Orlando World Center Marriott. Mears Transportation operates shuttle service to/from the resort and the Orlando Airport. Tickets may be purchased at the Mears desk on the baggage level of the airport and cost $31 round-trip per adult ($19 adult one-way). Reservations from the resort to the airport are required four hours prior to airline departure time. Reservations from the airport to the resort are not necessary in advance as shuttles operate 24 hours per day and leave every 15-20 minutes. The Orlando World Center Marriott is the first stop from the airport. Alternatively, a taxi ride will be approximately $40 one way and will take approximately 20 minutes.

For more information on Orlando and what travelers should know, visit the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site at www.orlandoinfo.com.

HOTELOrlando World Center Marriott Resort8701 World Center DrOrlando, FL 32821-6358

Phone: 407.239.4200 Fax: 407.238.8777Web site: www.marriottworldcenter.com

Check-in time is 4:00 p.m. and check-out time is 12:00 p.m.

PRIMA HOUSING POLICIESPRIMA reserves a limited number of guest rooms for attendees of the PRIMA conference. When attendees book outside the PRIMA room block, or book rooms in advance on the chance that they will attend, only to cancel later, PRIMA is placed at high risk of paying attrition on the cancelled rooms. Due to the economic climate as well as this abovementioned risk, the following PRIMA-approved housing policy has been instituted. Thank you in advance for adhering to these policies.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Special Accomodation Request

If you require special accommodations due to disability, health concerns or physical challenges, contact Catherine Pawlowicz, PRIMA manager of meetings and conferences, at 703.253.1263 or cpawlowicz@primacentral.org.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

FEESConference registration fees include admittance to all educational and general sessions, conference materials, coffee breaks, Sunday night’s welcome reception, Monday’s reception in the exhibit hall, Tuesday’s special event, lunches on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and admittance to PRIMA’s exhibit hall.

On or Before March 12th

After March 12th

Onsite

Member $560 $660 $685

Member, Corporate $630 $730 $770

Nonmember, Government $760 $820 $840

Nonmember, Corporate $990 $1025 $1050

GUESTSGuests of attendees of PRIMA’s 2010 Annual Conference will not be issued name badges. Tickets will be offered, while space is available, for individual purchase for lunches, receptions and the trade show. Please remember that tickets, if available, may be purchased in advance or on-site during registration hours.

CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICYAll registration cancellations and requests for refunds must be received in writing and are subject to a $75 administrative fee. Cancellations received after Friday, May 7, 2010, are nonrefundable, but substitutions will be accepted. Please allow 30 days following the conference for all refund processing.

NOTICES• If PRIMA must cancel this conference for any reason, liability is limited to the registration fees paid only. PRIMA is not

responsible for other expenses incurred, including travel and accommodation fees.

• Payments to PRIMA are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.

HOW TO REGISTERRegister online for the PRIMA 2010 Annual Conference in mid-January on the PRIMA Web site at www.primacentral.org. If you are unable to register online or need further registration information, contact Catherine Pawlowicz, PRIMA manager of meetings and conferences, at 703.253.1263 or cpawlowicz@primacentral.org.

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Not a member of PRIMA yet? Members of PRIMA save an average of $200 on their registration fee for PRIMA’s Annual Conference. You can become a member at the same time you register for PRIMA’s 2010 Annual Conference. Simply check the appropriate box on the online registration form and the cost of your membership will be added and billed at the time of your registration. The discounted registration fee will be reflected in your final charge. Visit PRIMA’s Web site at www.primacentral.org for additional information on membership.

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