Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Beck Agricultural Center
4540 U.S. 52 W. West Lafayette, IN
$160 *includes lunch

The best Farm Ag Insurance Conference in Indiana is back! Submitted for 6 hours of Indiana CE and the 6 hour annual update requirement for AFIS, it's definitely the best use of a Tuesday! Presented by Independent Insurance Agents of Indiana and MICAI.

Morning Agenda

8:30 – 9:00 AM
Registration

9:00 – 10:30 AM                 
Crisis Response for Insurance Professionals: How to Assist an Insured's Response to a Crisis
Rick Pitts

Many insureds, particularly small commercial insureds, look to their insurance producers for risk management tips and advice in a variety of circumstances. This session will begin with a look at the typical “crisis.” We’ll then take a look at the insurance implications or the role of the insurance professional in responding to a crisis. It uses the examples of Active Shooter / Active Assailant insurance coverage and also Products Recall Insurance to illustrate the dependency between crisis response and insurance risk management.

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM             
Concurrent Sessions:

 Workers Comp
Kurt Kluempers

This session will review current workers compensation statue and how it impacts agriculture. It will discuss employer’s liability, corporate farms, independent contractor changes (AB-5), and pending changes in statues throughout the country.

Farm Insurance 201
Jeff Wilson

This session will cover a variety of farm topics and will help attendees understand more than just the basics of farm coverages. Equine exposures, confinement operations, and farm liability vs CGL will be discussed at a higher level. Attendees will also take a look at emerging agritainment topics including pumpkin patches, u-pick operations, farmers markets (especially in regards to altering products such as selling strawberry jam instead of just strawberries), and farm structures being used for wedding receptions and special events.

Afternoon Agenda

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Lunch

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM        
Cyber Coverage
Jon Lough

In this session, attendees will start with a basic run down of cyber insurance and the basic coverages. We’ll dive into pertinent exposures in regards to farm, co-op, manufacturing, and product movement. We’ll discuss ransomware, business interruption, and social engineering including how they happen, where we see them most, and the coverage language surrounding them.

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Confinement Farming in the Midwest 
Travis Stinson and Stan Cool

This session will cover all aspects of confinement farming that impact Indiana agents. We'll start with a history of confinement farming and commonly used terms. We'll discuss the buildings used in the operations including gestation, farrowing, nursery, and finish as well as the processes that go along with those building types.  We'll also focus on safety and loss mitigation in confinement buildings.