Twenty-one Insurance Executives to Speak at 10th Annual Insurance Symposium in San Francisco

Twenty-one insurance executives, reflecting the entire spectrum of worldwide insurance will address the tenth annual Russell Miller National Insurance Symposium-Leadership Conference on March 2, 1998. The theme for this year's conference is "Looking Back, Looking Forward."

J.M.P. Taylor, the chairman of Lloyd's of London, will open the Conference. He has recently assumed his office and this will mark his first speech to a U.S. group of insurance executives.

150 of the most senior executives from all facets of the national and international insurance business will be in the audience. Countries represented, in addition to the United States, include Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and Bermuda.

The National Insurance Symposium-Leadership Conference is closely watched by industry observers because many CEOs reveal their plans and strategies during the conference. This year Securitas Capital, the merchant banking investment advisor to Swiss Reinsurance Company and Credit Suisse Group, will participate as a leadership partner heading a special panel.

Several executives who have recently turned over the leadership of their companies to younger managers will be speaking. Jack McGraw, who has created one of the fastest growing insurance entities in the West, will be followed by his son who will handle the looking-forward part of their joint speech. Robert Hilb, founder of nationwide Hilb, Rogal & Hamilton Company, will speak in tandem with his recently installed CEO Andrew Rogal, who is the son of one of the original partners.

Roger Eigsti, chairman and CEO of SAFECO Corporation, will join Ian Rolland, chairman and CEO of Lincoln National Corporation and Marsten Becker, chairman and CEO of Orion Capital Corporation in a panel discussion on "Understanding the Past to Shape the Future".

Donald Zuk, president of SCPIE Holdings, a publicly listed company that specializes in professional liability, will be on a panel with Tony Markel, president of Markel Corporation and John Pasqualetto, president of American Home Specialty Workers Compensation Company, part of AIG's worldwide network of companies.

Presentations by OneSource Information Services, Inc., which provides electronic insurance industry data and Intuit's Interactive Insurance Services, will reflect some of the high tech changes affecting the insurance industry. Many know Intuit's checkbook and financial software programs but few know of the changes they are initiating with their direct interactive insurance on-line quotes and purchasing.

Russell Miller Inc., the initiator of the annual symposium, is a leading specialty investment bank that provides merger and acquisition and financial services to companies in the insurance industry throughout the United States and the world. Its subsidiary recently led a group that acquired interests in fifteen Asian insurance and financial services companies in seven countries.