With so much ink having been spilled over AIG in recent weeks, it seemed a particularly forward-thinking move for AIU to host a session today entitled “Evaluating Carrier Security Through Financial Crisis.
” After all, the insurance wing of AIG is not the part of the company that caused all of the trouble with credit default swaps. It’s still a world leader in insurance, and it is a firm with an enormous amount of strength behind it. It’s almost unfair that such a well-run operation should suffer any stigma attached to its parent, and for things it had nothing to do with, but unfair things happen all the time.
Especially in the world of insurance.
Unfortunately, when I went to the session, I found that it had been cancelled. Exactly why it was canceled is something I don’t know and honestly, I don’t much care to. After all, AIU has a long-standing relationship with RIMS and with this Conference, and there could be any number of reasons why the session did not come together. That’s not the point.
This session would have been a great opportunity for AIU to talk frankly to those who want to know if their insurance partners are really going to be there for them when they are needed. I suspect the event would have attracted a fair bit of trade media attraction, which is always reason for any firm to get a little nervous. But that aside, AIU has a lot of information and insight to share.
It’s too bad they could do that with us today. Another time, perhaps.
This is not a fair posting. RIMS had updated their website last week to delete this session from promotion. Plus, everyone who had signed up for that session (including me, an AIU policyholder) had also been informed well in advance via email notificatoin that it was cancelled due to schedule conflicts of the principals. Furthermore, this session had been removed from signage/promotion. I do not understand why this post implies a last-minute cancellation.
All good points. But in the grand scheme of things, AIU did have a huge opportunity here to address their audience and the wider insurance community, and while I am sure the scheduling conflicts that forced the cancellation could not be avoided, the reality is there was left on the table a big chance for public outreach.
AIG’s defenders have pointed out on more than one occasion that the insurance wing of the copmpany a) did not controbute to the larger corporate downfall, b) that the insurance wing is in fact a profitable business and c) that the insurance wing remains the biggest insurance company in the world; a true industry leader. All of those points are true and worth making amid the hype regarding AIG bonus payments. That said, who better to explain the situation about insurance carrier solvency than AIU? What other firm can possibly touch AIU’s credibility on this topic? None can. And that is why it was so disappointing to see the session canceled.
That is really the point here. Personally, I missed the notifications about the canceled session and did not know it was canceled until I got to the session itself and saw a sign there to that effect. I don’t think, nor did I intend to imply that anything dodgy was afoot with the canceled session. Sessions get canceled all the time for lots of different reasons, and I was sure the reasons for this particular cancellation were perfectly valid.
Just the same, to have AIU lead a discussion on carrier solvency, given recent events and given the current economic climate, would have been a coup for AIU and for anybody attending. I hate missed opportunities, and this was one.
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