Underwriting Expert Witnesses in Connecticut

This mortgage expert has 30+ years of lending experience, including management positions in residential and consumer lending, secondary marketing, loan servicing, compliance, and operations. He is an accomplished third-party underwriter and quality control reviewer of mortgage loans and operations for several classifications of mortgage lenders. He has been a national-level instructor for over 20 years and has taught hundreds of lenders, as well as taught examiners and regulators on the state and federal level for banks, credit unions, and mortgage bankers/brokers. He worked with the NMLS in designing the SAFE Act federal MLO exam and in reviewing and auditing SAFE Act licensing education programs. The expert is a past Director of the Community Lending Institute Education Department for the American Bankers Association and is also the past Board Director, Strategic Planning Committee Chair, and Education Committee Co-Chair for the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association. In addition, he is the author of an industry standard residential mortgage textbook that is used in several hundred U.S. colleges and universities. The expert current runs two small consulting practices that specialize in mortgage and consumer lending/compliance.

This highly-qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry specializing in data science and mathematics with a current focus on long term care insurance. He earned his BS in mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his MS in information science and operations research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Formerly, he has held positions as a corporate telecommunications network designer at Aetna, the assistant director of telecommunications at CIGNA, the co-founder and CEO of Intelligent Network Systems, a consultant for Tucker Network Technologies, and the founder and president of Sage Telecommunications Corporation. He currently serves as the co-founder, operating member, research scientist, and strategist of a research and development company focused on finance, health, and happiness.

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.