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2025 NRRA National Conference: Top Takeaways & Strategic Insights for RRGs
Get key insights, strategies, and industry updates from the 2025 NRRA National Conference—featuring expert panels on AI, regulation, board governance, trucking, and more.
NRRA’s Joseph Deems Featured in Captive Insurance Times on RRG Advocacy and 2025 Conference Insights
In a recent Captive Insurance Times feature, Joseph Deems shares how NRRA combats misinformation about RRGs and previews key themes for the 2025 Conference.
2024 Recap: Risk Retention Group Legislative and Regulatory Advocacy Initiatives
One of the most significant ways the National Risk Retention Association (NRRA) supports its members as well as the entire risk retention group community is through its education and advocacy work for risk retention groups (RRGs) and risk purchasing groups (RPGs). Read a summary of some of the advocacy related work NRRA has done on behalf of all risk retention groups and risk purchasing groups in 2024.
Derick White Honored as 2024 Karen Cutts Award Recipient
Our Karen Cutts Award this year honors Derick’s thirty-five-plus years of service in the captive industry. He has worked in virtually every capacity as a CPA, auditor, regulator, Deputy Commissioner and Director of Captives.
New Legislative Efforts in Florida and Reputational Marketing Report
NRRA plans its third visit to Florida as discrimination of Risk Retention Groups continues.
CRISP Students Reflect on NRRA Conference 2023
This year, four Gamma Iota Sigma college students from The Katie School of Insurance and Risk Management at Illinois State University attended NRRA 2023, participating in NRRA conference sessions and networking with industry attendees to gain an in-depth exploration of the risk retention field and help build their future careers. Read their reflections on attending the conference:
Remembering Cicero Brooks Jr.
From all your friends at the National Risk Retention Association, Godspeed, Brother "Ro!" Cicero (aka “Ro”) was a gift of pure joy to all of us he touched. A founding early member of our CRISP program for students, gifted with a sense of humor and a charisma that was larger than life, Ro could (and DID) work a crowd with the best of us.
Phase Two of Campaign to Oppose Illegal and Discriminatory Legislation is in Full Gear
In addition to fund-raising, NRRA continues its friend-raising: via a proactive effort to develop educational processes and alliances that will help support its efforts to find a legally fair and objective solution to the cause of this year’s earlier legislative crisis, as well as a favorable solution there for all RRGs in the state.
NRRA Gains in Florida While Nevada Gets into the Act
NRRA’s continuing campaign asserting its leadership role on both the regulatory and legislative battle fronts threatening RRGs includes planning in place for the upcoming legislative session this fall.
NRRA Accelerates Its Campaign Opposing Illegal Discrimination Activities Against RRGs
Following the conclusion of the 2023 Florida Legislative Session on May 5th, which ended without passage of Senate Bill 516, no time is being wasted waiting to see when the previously ill-conceived legislative phoenix might rise from the ashes there.
2023 Florida Legislative Session Ends With No Vote Taken On H57/SB516
While the Bill successfully came out of every committee, including final passage by the House of Representatives, the legislative session ended as scheduled on Friday, May 5, 2023 with no action taken on Senate Bill 516.
NRRA to Escalate Fundraising Plan to Combat Bad Florida Bill
THE “FIX” IS IN! – FLORIDA SB516 & H57 update. Committee votes on the bill are passing completely along partisan lines.
NRRA Announces Fundraising Plan to Combat SB 516
The Florida House Commerce and Senate Appropriations Committee hearings took place on Monday and Wednesday (April 10th & 12th) respectively. NRRA’s campaign efforts in opposition are already beginning to show some progress.
Why Florida Bill 516 Matters for All RRGs
If passed, Florida Bill 516 will have a devastating impact on not only trucking and transportation risk retention groups registered in Florida, but actually every RRG writing commercial liability, including auto.
Florida Senate Committee Passes Bill That Could be Devastating to RRGs
NRRA is now proactively engaged in opposing a very live bill in Florida with a proposed revision to Florida‘s motor vehicle law.
