Insurance Expert Witnesses

This highly-qualified business executive has almost 30 years of leadership experience in credit card product development and management, as well as marketing and finance. He earned his BS in finance and accounting from Boston University and his MBA with a focus on marketing and management from Iona College. Formerly, he held positions as a senior vice president of partnership marketing and product development at Bank of America Card Services, the vice president of cobranding business and product development at Alliance Data Retail Services, and the senior vice president and director of retail and commercial card services at Huntington Bank. He is currently the managing partner at a strategy and advisory firm located in New York City.

This highly-qualified expert has 10 years of experience as a meteorologist, with a wealth of experience predicting short-term weather hazards including tornadoes, high winds, hail, flooding, and winter storms over all of North America. He earned his BS in atmospheric science from the University of Kansas and has completed a dual-polarization radar training course through the Office of Weather Programs & Projects at the University of Oklahoma, as well as a North American Workshop on Hail & Hailstorms through the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety. This expert is a certified consulting meteorologist and is active in his field as a member of the American Meteorological Society and that National Weather Association. He has also given several presentations at meteorology seminars throughout his career. He began his career as a storm warning meteorologist at AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions before serving as the lead storm warning meteorologist and then the senior storm warning meteorologist. Throughout his career, he has also provided expert weather consultation to many Fortune 500 companies during major weather events, including severe thunderstorm and tornado situations and major hurricanes. Currently, this expert serves as an expert senior forensic meteorologist for a commercial weather service for businesses.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in cyber law, risk management, and insurance, as well as data breach response and e-commerce. He earned his BA from Gonzaga University, his JD from Washington University School of Law, and his LLM in cyber and telecommunications law from the University of Nebraska. Today, this expert is a practicing attorney who specializes in cyber law and insurance. Formerly, he served as the director of the Make-A-Wish Montana and managed all operations surrounding legal, non-profit compliance. He has additional experience as an attorney and counselor at law and as a partner and practicing attorney at Joseph, Vicevich & Whelan, PLLC. Currently, this expert is the president of a private law firm and serves as the director of a community bank and a Montessori school in Montana.

This expert has 15 years of surety bond underwriting experience for both contract and commercial bonds. He earned his BS in business from the University of North Texas and is a licensed insurance agent and an associate in fidelity and surety bonds. He previously served as a member of the surety industry task force for the City of San Antonio and as a program provider for the bonding technical assistance program apart of the Texas Department of Transportation. He is currently a bonding technical assistance provider for a state department of transportation and the owner of a surety insurance agency in Texas.

This expert has over 40 years of experience in the construction and insurance industry. He is a licensed insurance adjuster and general adjuster and is certified in fraud in the property casualty insurance industry. He is a member of the Sacramento Claims Association and the Forensic Expert Witness Association. He previously served as a forensic construction consultant at the Forensic Group, as a wastewater consultant at Shanghai China, Municipal, and as a consultant at Indoor Environmental Institute. This expert is currently a general adjuster and forensic construction consultant in California.

This highly-qualified expert in arbitration and mediation has over 25 years of experience. She earned her BA in philosophy at College of William and Mary and her JD at the University of Richmond. She is a certified mediator with the Florida Supreme Court and a certified arbitrator with AIDA Reinsurance & Arbitration Society. She is active in her field as a member of the Association of South Florida Mediators and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society. She has formerly served as the chair of the tort and insurance practice section for the American Bar Association and as an attorney in the insurance transactional and regulatory practice at Adorno & Zeder, P.A. In addition, she spent nearly 20 years working for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, where she served in several legal business positions. She currently serves as the owner of her own firm that provides arbitration, mediation and consulting in Florida.

This highly-qualified expert has nearly 30 years of experience with real estate, insurance, sales and litigation consulting. She earned her BA in economics at the University of Illinois at Champaign and both her MBA and PhD in business and marketing at Florida Atlantic University. She is a certified building contractor and a licensed public adjuster and private investigator. She spent 12 years working as a senior vice president of sales and marketing at Summit Hotel Management Company. She has also formerly served as an assistant professor of business at Florida Atlantic University and Lynn University. This expert currently serves as a real estate developer and contractor and a major real estate and construction company and as a public insurance adjuster at a public adjuster company. In addition, she oversees her own litigation consulting company in Florida, where she provides expertise in insurance, real estate and construction for legal disputes.

This highly-qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in the field of risk and insurance management. He earned his BS in industrial supervision from Western Michigan University and his MBA in management from Eastern Michigan University. He is also designated as a an associate in risk management by the Insurance Institute of America. This expert is active in his field as a member of the Risk & Insurance Management Society and as a member of the board of directors for Disaster Recovery Institute International. This expert has formerly served as a risk manager for the City of Dearborn and a risk management manager at ThyssenKrupp USA, Inc. He has also formerly served as an agent at Combined Insurance Company of America and as a director of risk management at the University of Kentucky. This expert is currently a resource manager for a national risk management and insurance association.

This expert has extensive experience in property insurance claims and construction disputes. He received his BA from Christendom College before starting a design-build construction company. After, he held positions as a senior claims adjuster at Cunningham Lindsey, the executive vice president of Clairvaux Institute, and the executive general adjuster at Solutia Adjusters. Currently, he is an executive consultant at an insurance claims consultancy in Colorado.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience as an insurance regulator and consultant. He earned his BS in commerce from Rider College. He is an accredited insurance examiner and is a member of the Statutory Accounting Working Group and NAIC Financial Analysis Working Group. He was formerly an assistant chief insurance examiner for the financial analysis unit, at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. Additionally, he was an assistant commissioner and the chief insurance examiner for the office of solvency regulation at the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. He is currently a managing member of an insurance regulation and compliance service company.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience in insurance underwriting. He earned his BA in economics from the University of Guelph and his BComm in graduate business at the University of Windsor. He then went on to become a life underwriting at Independent Order of Foresters and a manager of Canadian life and disability underwriting at Crown Life Insurance Co. He then served as the AVP of underwriting and customer service at Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. before becoming the director of GSI and advanced underwriting at UnumProvident Corp. and RBC Insurance Life Insurance Company. Currently, this expert is an insurance consultant of how own insurance consultancy and a contractor insurance consultant for an underwriting service in Ontario.

This highly-qualified life expectancy calculations and life insurance underwriting expert has been consulting in the field for nearly three decades. She earned her BA in public health from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH in occupational epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a fellow of the Academy of Life Underwriting and a member of the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. She has authored over 80 insurance-related publications throughout her career, including underwriting manuals. The expert formerly served as an underwriting researcher for Lincoln National Reinsurance, Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance, and Kaiser Permanente. Currently, she serves as the principal of a private life and health insurance consultancy in Nevada.

This highly-qualified expert has 45 years of experience in insurance and risk management, specializing in questionable claims practices, policy rescission, bad faith conduct, coverage disputes, producer professional liability, and insurer insolvency. He holds several professional designations, including Associate in Risk Management, Accredited Advisor in Insurance, and Registered Professional Liability Underwriter. He is also licensed as an insurance producer, a claims adjuster, and an insurance counselor. He formerly served as a claims manager for Property and Casualty Solutions, the operations director for Maxcis, and a program underwriter for Commercial & Manufacturing Insurance. Currently, this expert is a faculty member for an insurance association in Michigan.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the field of risk management, specializing in retail risk assessment, enterprise risk management, retail safety and security management, claims management, liability, and property claim negotiation. He earned his BS from Eastern Kentucky University and has completed professional development courses in risk management services, casualty claims adjusting, and criminal interrogation and behavioral analysis. He is active in his field as a member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society. He has formerly served as the manager of risk control and claims for Chiquita Brands International, the director of risk services for the Pillsbury Company, the vice president of risk management for Advance Auto Parts Company, and the director of risk management for Central Parking System. Most recently, this expert served as the director of liability claims for Publix Super Markets.

This highly qualified banking expert has 34 years of banking experience. He has held several senior leadership positions in banking including Founder, President, VP/Commercial Lender, EVP/Region Underwriter and is highly knowledgeable about the credit review process and bank regulations. This expert has qualified and testified in a number of civil and criminal cases in both Federal and State Courts. He earned his BS at the University of California and is currently the principal at a financial consultancy.

This qualified engineer has handled numerous forensic evaluations for both law firms and insurance companies. He is licensed in the States of Connecticut and New Jersey with 20 years of experience in the engineering and construction industries serving in various management capacities. This expert has considerable experience in consulting on engineering standards, construction defects, OSHA safety standards and related matters. These strong qualifications make him highly capable of reviewing the case at hand. He has exceptional report writing capabilities and his investigations are detailed while incorporating all relevant technologies. His work for the legal community includes both the plaintiff and defense firms. He has been deposed, served as a trial consultant and his work has assisted in the settlement of several cases.

This expert is an emergency physician in practice for 30 years, 18 of which he reviewed claims for all classes of medical payers including Blue Cross plans, major indemnity insurers, and Medicaid. One of his specialties is cost containment and recovery of overpayments, and he has designed and implemented major claims audits systems. He earned his MD at the University of Chicago and has held emergency medicine and medical directorship positions for many years. He currently serves as the president of a private medical consulting firm, in addition to his role as attending emergency physician and clinical professor at a major university medical center.

This expert has over 25 years of experience in the securities industry as an accounting and compliance specialist. Industry experience with broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, hedge funds,regulation, compliance, accounting, and information technology. He has been FINRA registered since 1984 and is also a licensed Financial and Operations Principal. He currently serves as Principal for a financial compliance services firm.

This ski safety expert is the Principal Consultant at a major consulting firm, the premiere Ski Safety Consulting Practice in North America specializing ski accident investigation, skiing related litigation consulting, ski area risk management, ski area loss control, operational best practices and generally accepted practices and principles employed by the ski industry. His knowledge, education, training and experience include over 35 years as a risk management, loss control, litigation management, accident investigation, insurance professional and 25 years of ski industry investigations involving thousands of skiing accidents, hundreds of catastrophic ski accidents and strategic resolution of all types of ski industry litigation.

This highly qualified risk management and insurance expert earned her BA in Insurance at Howard University and PhD in Risk Management and Insurance at the University of Georgia. She is a member of several professional organizations including the American Risk and Insurance Association, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, Southern Risk and Insurance Association, Western Risk and Insurance Association, and Windstorm Insurance Network. She has received the RMIR Best Perspectives Article Award from the prestigious American Risk and Insurance Association. This expert sits of the editorial board for several peer reviewed journals and is the co-editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation. She has published 30+ articles on the insurance industry and risk management and is a frequently invited guest speaker at major conferences. Formerly she was a senior claims representative at State Farm Insurance Company. Currently she is a professor in the department of risk management and insurance at a major university.