Insurance Claim Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 40 years of claims experience, both as an adjuster and then as an in-house attorney advising adjusters on the proper standard of care in claims handling. He has represented numerous bad faith plaintiffs, and he also established the errors & omissions adjusting practices and auditing procedures for a major insurance company. The expert spent over 6 years as AIG's Western Zone Claims Council and 14 years as Executive Managing Attorney for USAA. He is now retired and acts as an insurance bad faith advisor.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in insurance claims and risk management. He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his M.A. from the College of William & Mary. The expert holds the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation, as well as specialty designations from the American Insurance Institute in Risk Management. He was most recently the Vice President of Risk Management Resources for Berkley Life Sciences and now runs his own good/bad faith consulting firm.

This experienced insurance expert has extensive background in claims management for personal, commercial, and specialty lines of business. He began his career as a Multi-Line Adjuster with Commercial Union Insurance Company and remained with the entity for 32+ years after it became CGU Insurance and OneBeacon Insurance Group through acquisitions. Most recently, the expert served as the Senior Vice President & Head of Claims for OneBeacon Insurance Company from 2006 until 2010 and then as the Senior Vice President of Runoff Claims from 2010 until 2012. He is now an insurance consultant.

This insurance industry veteran has 30+ years of experience in the field. He is currently active as the Owner of an insurance claims consulting business that provides P&C claim audits, studies of industry best practices, and expert witness testimony. Previously, the expert served as a Partner at Ernst & Young, where he was the National Practice Leader for the Property & Casualty claims consulting practice. The expert earned his B.S. in Mathematics from Elmhurst College and holds the Associate in Risk Management and Casualty Claim Law Associates designations. He has authored works in several industry publications and is often quoted in insurance-related articles.

This insurance expert works as an independent claims consultant and expert witness, primarily in the areas of bad faith claims litigation for both plaintiffs and insurance defense. She has over 20 years of experience in the property & casualty industry, handling all levels of claims, including large loss and complex claims, as well as bad faith litigation. The expert holds the CPCU, AIC-M, and SCLA designations and spent much of her career with State Auto Insurance, steadily moving up the ranks to Corporate Claim Manager and a member of the Core Management Team.

This expert has over 30 years experience as an insurance claim adjuster specializing in helping clients manage residential and commercial insurance claims after natural disasters or fires damage their property. He is a graduate of University of Central Oklahoma and a Certified Property Manager (CPM) with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He is licensed in 11 states. He is currently the Regional Director at a public insurance adjusting company where he oversees Commercial Insurance Claims, Business Owner Insurance Claims, Risk Management, Recovery from Natural Disaster and Property loss, Commercial Property Re-positioning, and Homeowner Insurance Claim.

This highly qualified expert has over 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has served in a variety of roles for various insurance companies, including Property Adjuster, Field Underwriter, Personal Lines District Manager, Commercial Lines District Manager, Territory Manager and Territorial Business Manager. He has first-hand experience in personal lines, commercial lines, farm lines, working with affluent family accounts and providing long-term risk management services to the State of Wisconsin. He holds a BA from Creighton University and has earned eight professional insurance designations. He served as a Faculty Member of the National Alliance For Insurance Education & Research for 14 years. He is also a national speaker in the areas of insurance and risk management, presenting to groups such as Corporate Casual, the COSBE Group, and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA). He is currently President at a property, casualty and risk management services consulting firm in WI.

This expert has over 50 years of experience in the field of insurance claims. He has experience working in in claim handling custom and practice, claim adjusting, coverage interpretation, and SIU practices. He is certified as a Casualty Claims Law Associate, Legal Principals Coverage Specialist, and a Registered Professional Adjuster, among others. He is active as a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, previously serving as the President of the Orange County Chapter, and is a Board Member of the California Association of Independent Insurance Adjusters. He has previously worked for insurance companies such as CIGA, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, and CNA Insurance. He currently serves as the President and Senior Insurance Claims Consultant for an insurance firm in California.

This expert began his career in underwriting in the 1960's, managing a regional general agency with broad underwriting authority specializing in property real and personal coverage, running the gamut from simple auto and homeowners’ policies to complex property, inland marine, manufacturer’s output and ocean marine policies. When he sold his agency in 1988, he had 60 employees and annual revenues in excess of $10,000,000. His career also includes a wealth of claims experience, personally having draft issuing authority to settle claims for a number of different insurance carriers. He currently manages a consultancy dedicated to standard of care issues special realationships underwriting and claims handling issues.

This expert has extensive experience with insurance. He gained his MBA from Pennsylvania State University, his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his JD from the University of Minnesota. He served as the deputy commissioner and acting chief counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. He has also served as an insurance consultant to many corporations, state and local governments and was the chair of the finance, real estate, and law department at California Poly University. Currently he is a professor of insurance at a university in Minnesota and an attorney licensed to practice in Minnesota.

This expert has a thirty year association in the Life and Disability Income Insurance Industry. For twenty-eight years he was associated with The Union Central Life Insurance Company. During that time he was involved in numerous claim/policy service matters and supervised claim litigation. He also conducted California Fraud Training for over twenty years with claim examiners with a concentration in the Bad Faith area. In addition, was a former Life Insurance Sales Agent with Western Southern Life Insurance Company.

This highly qualified insurance claims adjuster is dual-licensed in multiple states for property and casualty claims and claims handling. He has over 30 years of experience specializing in property losses for both commercial and residential with an emphasis on residential property claims, including third-party property liability. This expert received his BS in management studies from the University of Maryland and has gone on to complete numerous training courses in his field. He is a certified property general adjuster, a property appraiser and umpire, and an associate in claims. Additionally, this expert is an accredited claims adjuster and is certified by the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program. He is a member of the Society of Certified General Adjusters, the National General Adjusters Association, and the Property Casualty Claims Professionals organization, just to name a few. Formerly, this expert worked as an adjuster, senior adjuster, general adjuster, and eventually, a master general adjuster for various companies. Currently, this expert serves as the owner and a consultant at a GA professional adjusting consulting service.

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.