Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey to Keynote the 2010 North American Insurance Claims Summit
Theme of the conference will be "Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Challenging Marketplace"
HSG and CodeBlue are proud to announce Dick Armey, former House Majority Leader, will address attendees at the insurance industry’s most informational and educational conference for insurance industry executives, the 2010 North American Insurance Claims Summit, February 17-18, 2010. The keynote address will take place Wednesday morning during the conference being held at the Westin Tampa Harbour Island in Tampa, FL. Mr. Armey will speak to this year's theme Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Challenging Marketplace.
Elected to Congress in 1984, Dick Armey was the primary author of the Contract with America. Mr. Armey ran unopposed for Majority Leader in the 104th Congress and that Congress passed the first balanced budget in a generation. Armey was also influential in key legislation related to e-commerce and the economy, development of a flat tax and homeland defense.
"We feel privileged to have former House Majority Leader Dick Armey speak at this year's annual Claims Summit," said Paul Gross, President and CEO for HSG and CodeBlue. "His past accomplishments as the primary author of the Contract with America embody the principles of free enterprise that we have built our company upon. His presence is especially meaningful and relevant given our conference theme of Achieving Competitive Advantage in a Challenging Marketplace since few others have helped to craft the level of public policy and business framework to achieve these goals as Mr. Armey."
Now retired from Congress, Mr. Armey continues to speak on crucial issues such as The Electronic Revolution and the Economy as well as The Imperative for Tax Simplification. A Ph.D economist, Mr. Armey also speaks on the topics of his books, including Price Theory, The Freedom Revolution, The Flat Tax and Armey's Axioms.
Mr. Armey is the senior policy advisor at DLA Piper US LLP, a global law firm with over 3,000 attorneys, serving in the Government Affairs, Federal Legislative Practice Group of the Washington, DC office. He is also chairman of Freedom Works Inc. - the entity formed by the merger of Citizens for a Sound Economy (a grassroots education organization) and Empower America (a think tank founded by former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett and former Congressman Jack Kemp).