Carl Sadler

A warm welcome to the ESSL Interest Group. Thank you for your interest in our group. This is an exciting time at the ESSL Interest Group and we welcome your thoughts and suggestions.

The Excess/Surplus/Specialty Lines Interest Group (ESSL) has been inactive for the last several years. As an ESSL founder and the second chairman (1986-1989) I was asked by the CPCU Society leadership in March to once gain become Chairman and lead the resurrection of ESSL.

Our first three goals are to (1) reactivate our newsletter “The Specialist,” (2) to recruit interest group committee members who have the right knowledge and skills, motivation, and the time to be active, and (3) due to the long lead time required to prepare for 2012 annual meeting seminars.

Our second group of goals includes (1) reactivating the ESSL website, (2) encouraging use of our new LinkedIn capability, (3) develop our first webinar, and (4) encourage articles and a research project.

We have recruited new interest group committee members and volunteers, however we need additional ESSL committee members. Our goal is for geographic balance, a reasonable spread of ages and experience, various functional roles (underwriting, claims, administration, marketing), and segments of the business (brokers, insurers, and reinsurers.) We now have three committee members in NJ and PA. We need members from other geographic areas and the wholesale (E&S) broker community. In addition we need some younger committee members, especially those with social media and website skills. We need to seriously address the succession issue so that we do not rebuild the interest group only to have it become inactive after our initial group completes their commitments.



Any committee members must complete the Society’s three page “Application for CPCU Society Service.” Interest group committee members, per the Society guidelines, serve for three year terms and are expected to attend both the annual meeting and the leadership summit each year. Since we are rebuilding we have the ability to stagger terms. However, I feel the minimum commitment should be 18 months. In addition committee members agree to participation in monthly teleconference meetings and active participation in committee work.

Again, thank you for your interest and I look forward to hearing from you.



Mr. Carl R. Sadler, CPCU, ASLI

President

Transportation Insurance Consultants, LLC

720 Thomas Jefferson Road

Wayne, PA 19087

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