Property Casualty Actuary Expert Witness

PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS

FCAS, Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society 2001
FSA, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries 2013
FCA, Fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries 2012
CERA, Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst 2013
MAAA, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries 1998
WCP, Workers Compensation Professional 2013

EXPERIENCE

2014 – present
A PRIVATE COMPANY Delray Beach, FL
President
Independent consulting, regulatory, and litigation support services:
Property, Liability, and Casualty lines of business
Insurance, Reinsurance, Self-insurance, Captives, Alternative Risk Transfers, and Residual Markets
Ratemaking, Reserving, Predictive Modeling, and Enterprise Risk Management

2002 – 2014
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON COMPENSATION INSURANCE, Boca Raton, FL
Actuary
Presentations at most of the quarterly Actuarial Committee Meetings and periodic Individual Risk Rating Working Group Meetings with external industry affiliates held since I began in 2002.Analysis, Research, and Development of the Experience Rating Program and the Retrospective Rating Program; including NCCI’s ELFs and Table M; including allocation of individual projects to team members in a comprehensive review of the Experience Rating Plan Research and development of loss reserving methodology for residual markets Analysis of catastrophe modeling results for terrorism, earthquakes, and large industrial accidents; related industry solvency analysis; and support for filings related to the Terrorism
Risk Insurance Act.

2000 – 2002
SAFECO BUSINESS INSURANCE, Indianapolis, IN
Associate Actuary
Special studies focusing on various aspects of primary rating and underwriting structure
Special studies focusing on reinsurance, both ceded and assumed, both rating and reserving
Signed loss reserve opinions in 2001 for two reinsurance companies owned by Swiss Re

1998 – 1999
KEMPER, Long Grove, IL
Assistant Actuary
Personal lines ratemaking
Catastrophe modeling and related catastrophe load ratemaking

1997 – 1998
WILLIS FABER, Stoney Creek, NC
Actuarial Analyst
Catastrophe modeling
Self-insurance funding analysis

1996 – 1997
AON RE SERVICES, Chicago, IL
Actuarial Technician
Catastrophe modeling
Reinsurance analysis
Rates studies for claims made professional liability

1994 – 1996
KPMG, Chicago, IL
Associate Technician
Reserve analysis for actuarial opinions
Self-insurance funding reports

EXPERT WITNESS TRAINING

Conference of Consulting Actuaries seminar on The Consulting Actuary as Expert Witness, Boca Raton, October 24-25, 2012

ACTUARIAL VOLUNTEER WORK

2002 – 2011
Joint SOA/CAS Course 4/C Exam Committee
2006 – 2008
CAS Syllabus Committee
2007 – 2009
CAS Implementation Task Force for the Education Paper on Ratemaking
2011 – 2012
CAS Committee on Valuation, Finance, and Investments
2012 – 2012
CAS Preliminary Education Task Force
2012 – present
CAS Member Advisory Panel
2012 – present
CAS Risk Management Committee
2014 – present
AAA Casualty Practice Council Workers’ Compensation Committee
2014 – present
AAA Casualty Practice Council Property Lines Committee

ACTUARIAL PUBLICATIONS: Upon Request

PRESENTATIONS TO CASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY: Upon Request

ACTUARIAL MISCELLANY

Declared one of three winners in the 2005 Casualty Actuarial Society Committee on the Theory of Risk Challenge, Round 2 competition in 2005.
In 2001 won 3rd place out of over 250 entries in the 5th Anniversary of the CAS Website Contest.
Have contributed and continue to contribute original puzzles to “It’s a Puzzlement” column in the CAS Actuarial Review.  See Aug. 2006, Aug. 2009, Aug. 2011, Feb. 2012,  Feb. 2013, May 2013, July 2013, Sept. 2013,  Nov. 2013, Jan. 2014, March 2014, May 2014, and July 2014 issues.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, KY
Graduate Student in Math/Physics, 1989-1994
Department of Education Fellowship
Presidential Fellowship
Spent one year of grad school at U.C. Berkeley, 1990-91, passed Ph.D. preliminary exam in Mathematics

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, Lexington, KY
BA Physics, 1989

ACADEMIC AWARDS

University of Kentucky Academic Excellence Scholarship
National Merit Scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa