Life Expectancy Expert Witnesses

This highly qualified expert has extensive experience in finance having worked with asset managers, investment banks, and hedge funds. He holds a BS and MA in economics from Clemson University and a PhD in finance from the University of Tennessee. He is an active member of numerous professional societies including the Financial Management Association and the American Finance Association. In addition, he is a frequently invited lecturer in the finance space and is the author of numerous refereed publications. He has formerly served as a quantitative analyst at CNH Partners and as a municipal bond analyst at Wachovia Securities. He is currently the principal owner of a boutique consultancy firm specializing in data analytics, quantitative investment consulting, and predictive forecasting using data. He is also an assistant professor of finance at a university in the Northeast. His professional and research interests include analyzing business disputes, economic loss, forensic economics, and unfair business practices.

This expert has 35 years of experience in the field of economics and statistics. He earned his BA from Slippery Rock University and his PhD in economics from Kansas State University. He completed a fellowship in econometrics, energy and regional economics at Northwest College. He is a member of the National Association of Forensic Economics and the National Association of Business Economics. He previously served as an economist in the New Jersey Department of Labor, as an assistant professor of economics at Georgian Court University and as a professor of economics and statistics at Florida Southern College. This expert is currently a professor of economics and statistics at a university in Florida, an affiliated professor of economics at a university in Tennessee and an economist and principal at an economics firm in Florida.

This experienced actuary has over 40 years of experience in his field. His work throughout his career has involved actuarial services, pension plans, ERISA, government audits, marital dissolution, estate tax and life expectancy calculations, loss of income, death, disability, executive deferred compensation plans, and insurance and annuity contracts. He earned a BA in mathematics from Rutgers University and his FSA, the highest level of education for an actuary. He is a licensed series 7 & 63 financial industry regulatory authority actuary. He is a member of several actuary societies including the American Academy of Actuaries and the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries. He served as a consulting actuary at Alexander & Alexander, where he worked his way up to head actuary of the western region. He then served as a principal of retirement practices at Olaine, Hurst, & Hemrich. After a decade, he moved to Howard Johnson to serve as a consulting actuary. He then served as the President for the Morton Company and the Kagan Company before transitioning back to consulting. This expert currently serves as the owner and consulting actuary for an actuarial and pension services company in California.

This highly qualified expert has nearly 40 years of experience as a forensic economist. He earned his BA in economics at Washington State University. He is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the National Association of Forensic Economics, the American Economic Association, American Academy of Physicians Life Care Planners, and the American Rehabilitation Economics Association. He has held multiple roles throughout his career including economist for the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Protection Agency, a forensic economist at Grant Thornton, LLP, an in-house consultant at Bickel & Brewer, and senior economist at the Center for Forensic Economic Studies. This expert is currently a senior consulting economist at a damages and business valuation consulting firm, an associate consulting economist at a life care planning consulting firm, and the president and senior economist at a forensic economic consulting firm.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the field, primarily focusing on the regulation of reinsurance, as well as traditional, financial, capital market and administrative reinsurance. He is a licensed reinsurance intermediary and an ARIAS-US certified arbitrator, and is active in his field as a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and as a member of several organizations including the American Academy of Actuaries and the Actuarial Standards Board. Prior to his position as president of a consulting firm, he served as the vice president of reinsurance at Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the managing director of Lehman Brothers Holdings, and the vice president of client solutions at General Re Life Corporation.

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 expert has been working in the field of economics for 30 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Washington State University prior to completing all course work towards a Doctorate in Economics, specializing in Labor Economics. A former President of the Collegium of Pecuniary Damage Experts, he has presented more than 40 times at various professional conferences and symposiums hosted by the likes of the Texas Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, National Organization of Forensic Economics, SEAK and the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts, while he serves as an Editor for the online publication "The Earnings Analyst". This expert taught economics at the university level for 10 years prior to branching into economic analysis and consulting. Currently, this expert is the President of a national forensic economic consulting firm. He prepares, researches, and analyzes financial and economic data and provides economic damages calculations, consulting services, and expert reports in support of litigation. He has testified more than 100 times.

This fully credentialed actuary has a special focus on warranties, extended warranties, and service contracts. He regularly speaks at conferences such as the Warranty Chain Management and Warranty Innovations conferences, as well as being an Advisory Board member of the Global Warranty & Service Contract Association (GWSCA). He has authored 4 publications relating to warranties and actuarial assessments of warranties and is currently a consulting actuary at a top actuarial service provider.

This expert has been involved in actuarial consulting for over 10 years. He holds a Master's of Science in Statistics as well as a Doctorate in Mathematics. An Editor of the ASTIN Bulletin - The Journal of the International Actuarial Association, he also serves as a peer-reviewer for 20 other scientific journals in the areas of finance, mathematics, and insurance. He is a former Assistant Consultant with the Institute for Finance and Actuarial Science and has been an invited presenter at more than 10 national and international conferences and professional meetings. This expert is currently an Associate Professor of Risk Management and Insurance at a major university.

This expert is currently the lead Actuarial Consultant for a major actuarial firm. He has 38 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has worked extensively in most areas of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, mergers and acquisitions, self-insurance and captive insurance companies. He has advised extensively with many of the major insurance and reinsurance companies as well as large self-insured entities throughout North America in the areas of loss reserving, pricing and risk management. He had been a partner running actuarial practices at both Ernst & Young, where he ran the national P&C actuarial group and Coopers & Lybrand, where he ran the Northeast P&C Actuarial practice and the National Risk Management practice. He also has varied experience in actuarial functions at two major property & casualty insurance companies, running both personal lines (auto and homeowners) and commercial lines ratemaking and reserving units. He has published papers on mergers & acquisitions, product, pollution, asbestos, data mining, workers comp premium auditing, and and disaster recovery. He has also been a frequent speaker at actuarial conventions and programs. He worked on a variety of warranty actuary projects for large insurers and non-insurance companies with self insurance and risk management issues.

This expert earned a doctorate in Economics from the University of Arizona. His career in forensic economics, litigation support, economic analysis and consulting spans more than 15 years. In that time, he has produced hundreds of economic reports, has evaluated opposing experts' reports, and has provided expert testimony in both Federal and state courts. This expert also co-authored the book about trucking industry forensic econmics. Additionally, this expert develops econometric models, with applications in business analysis and forecasting and statistical analysis using SAS software.

This highly experienced actuary specializes in long term care insurance. He began his actuarial career at the Fireman's Fund Life Insurance Company in San Francisco and later transferred to Genworth Financial. For more than a decade, he served as an actuary with LifeCare Assurance Company in Los Angeles, focusing on the long term care field. He now is an actuarial consultant with a specialty in long term care and product pricing.

This experienced consumer advocate is currently an actuarial consultant, who for the past two years has been engaged as a plaintiff's expert witness in two title insurance cases in federal court involving fee shifting of closing costs on VA guaranteed loans into title insurance premiums, search and examination fees by two of the largest mortgage originators in the United States. He is also currently engaged in two cases representing consumers alleging failure to pay full replacement costs by two of the largest homeowners insurers in the United States. He has also testified as an actuarial expert witness against a recent NCCI proposed 19.6% workers compensation insurance rate increase in the state of Florida. This expert has a long history of testifying on behalf of consumers in insurance rate cases in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Texas and Florida. A fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries and also a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, he previously served in a managerial position at Ernst & Young. For roughly ten years, he served as an actuary with the Florida Office of Insurance Consumer Advocate. He earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and his MBA from the University of Utah.

This expert is highly qualified in the field of Forensic Economics. He earned his BS at the University of Southern California, and is active in his field as a member of American Rehabilitation Economics Association and the American Economic Association. He has been a partner at a Forensic Economics Firm in California for the last 25 years. In that capacity, he has performed analysis of financial and operating data to assist in various disruptions to businesses which range from physical damage, extra expense, business interruption, third party liability disputes, employee fidelity and product liability issues.

This highly qualified expert has a BS in Mathematics from Fujian Normal University, a MS in Statistics and Actuarial Science from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences from the University of Iowa. She is a Fellow of Society Actuaries. This expert has extensive experience teaching actuarial science and working in the industry. She was an Associate Director at Sun Life Financial, a Director at Prudential Financial, and a Consultant at Athene Life and Annuity. She is currently the Director of an Actuarial Science Program at a top university.

This expert is a forensic statistics and economics specialist, having earned his PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has extensive and successful trial experience and has pursued successful damages calculation cases. He is a member of the National Association of Forensic Economics and is a former economist at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. He is currently the president of an independent forensic economy practice in Michigan.