Insurance Broker Expert Witnesses in New York

This expert has been practicing law for over 35 years. A nationally recognized insurance coverage counselor, he is well known for his bi-weekly newsletter summarizing important insurance coverage decisions in New York State courts. Listed in Best Lawyers in America the past 6 years in a row, he has also been named as Lawyer of the Year for Insurance Law by the same publication. This expert has been teaching Insurance Law as an Adjunct Professor at a major university's law school for nearly 30 years, and he is a Senior Member specializing in insurance coverage at a large law firm.

This expert has extensive experience applying economic and financial models to matters regarding property and casualty insurance. He has applied his models to personal and commercial lines of coverage, including those involving catastrophe exposures. He earned his M.A. and his Ph.D. in Economics from Rutgers University. The expert is a Member of the American Risk & Insurance Association and also sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Insurance Regulation and Benefits Quarterly. He has been working for a large economics consulting firm since 1989.

This expert is a certified legal nurse consultant and a registered nurse. She has has many positions as a nurse and now works as a life planner and nurse consultant at three different practices. She is certified as a life care planner and in life accident and health insurance.

This highly qualified insurance regulatory matters expert has over 45 years of professional experience. He completed his BA in accounting at Loyola College and his MBA at St. Johns University. He holds professional certifications as an insurance examiner and a market conduct manager. This expert is a distinguished member of various professional organizations, including the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society and the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals. Formerly, this expert has served as the deputy bureau chief of the New York State Department of Financial Services. In this role, this expert reviewed the division's operational needs, conducted review of insurer proposals, and represented the department in meetings with various industry organizations.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in insurance. He earned his BBA in accounting from Hofstra University before beginning his career in insurance with the New York State Insurance Department and the New York State Department of Financial Services. During his 35 years working for the New York State Insurance Department, he held several prominent positions, including director of policy initiatives and assistant chief examiner of the property bureau. He has years of demonstrated experience dealing with health, life, and property insurance regulations. Currently, this expert serves as the principal for an insurance and regulatory consulting firm in New York.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the finance industry, with his work focusing on ERISA, fiduciary duty, FINRA and suitability, retirement plans, financial technology, and wealth management. He earned his BS in economics with concentrations in international business and money, banking, and finance from the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is a chartered retirement planning coordinator and has previously held Series 7, 31, 63, and 65 licenses. He is active in his field as a frequently published author of finance articles. He has formerly served as a private banker at Bank Leumi USA, the director of the institutional brokerage group at Fidelity Investments/NFS, the vice president of personal financial services at Chase Bank, a financial advisor for global private clients for Merrill Lynch, vice president for JP Morgan Securities, and the vice president of Clark Dodge Asset Management. Currently, this expert serves as the managing member and project manager for a fiduciary consulting firm in New York.

This expert has over 20 years of experience in advising asset managers of all sizes and complexities across fund and investment adviser formation, securities, corporate, regulatory, fund marketing, fund operations, investor due diligence, compliance and best practices front to back office infrastructure including legal negotiations and operational set up with various trading counter-parties and service providers such as fund administrators, prime brokers. He received his B.S. and Master's Degrees at Pace University in addition to a J.D. from Quinnipiac University. His extensive experience in fund management includes working at both Nikko Alternative Asset Management and CooperNeff Advisors where he was part of the executive business management team and Chief Legal Officer with roles and responsibilities across multi-strategy platforms and the due diligence of managers and related service providers. He also co-founded Anchor Risk Advisors, a hedge fund trading in catastrophic weather linked fixed income instruments, where he managed enterprise matters including funds and managed accounts. He currently serves as Managing Partner for a legal and business development consulting firm for asset management firms.

This highly qualified economist received his B.A. from Harvard University, M.A. from the University of Oxford, and his Ph.D in Economics from George Washington University. He brings extensive experience in financial regulation through his 5 years experience working as an economist at the federal-level at the Federal Reserve Board, Small Business Administration, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He also served as Chief Economist and Senior Policy Adviser in the Office of the New York City Comptroller for 13 years. He has taught MBA level courses on Corporate Social Responsibility, Finance and Economics at NYU's Stern School of Business, Baruch College, and Pace University. This expert is a member of several professional organization including the New York Association for Business Economics, Economists for Peace and Security. His testimony has been heard by such agencies as the NYS Public Service Commission three times, the NYS Assembly Housing Committee, the NYC Council, NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, .and the U.S. House Banking Committee.