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James LandisJames Landis
James P. Landis, JD, CPA, MBA is principal of UniCaptive Advisors, LLC, an independent consultant to the captive industry. He has been involved in the formation and management of captive insurance companies for over 25 years, is the former Managing Partner of Intuitive Captive Solutions and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Delaware Captive Insurance Association. See all articles by this author ...

Calvin E. BeyerCalvin E. Beyer
Calvin E. Beyer is the VP and Manufacturing Practice Leader at Zurich North America Commercial. He is based in Edina, Minnesota. Calvin has 24 years' experience in the insurance industry in various capacities, including extensive experience in risk assessment, strategic risk improvement, and risk management best practice development in the construction and manufacturing industries. See all articles by this author ...

Jim WhetstoneJim Whetstone
Jim Whetstone is the US Technology and Privacy Manager at Hiscox, the international specialist insurer. In this capacity, Mr Whetstone manages the technology errors and omissions and the privacy and data breach insurance products and underwriting operations in the US. See all articles by this author ...

Dave ChaseDave Chase
Dave has a unique blend of HealthIT and consumer Internet leadership experience that is well suited to the bridging the gap between Health IT systems and individuals receiving care. Besides his role as CEO of Avado, he is a regular contributor to Reuters, TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, Washington Post, KevinMD and others. See all articles by this author ...

Stu BaronStu Baron
Stu Baron is a nationally recognized expert on managing workers’ compensation claims. He is both President of Workers’ Compensation Claims Control and a principal in the law firm of Stuart Baron & Associates. Stu has been heavily involved in advocacy in Sacramento. He is quoted frequently by major workers’ compensation and trade journals. See all articles by this author ...

Jeanne FlahertyJeanne Flaherty
Jeanne Flaherty has practiced labor and employment law exclusively for over 20 years. Her practice encompasses advising and representing employers on all labor and employment issues, including discrimination/harassment, wage and hour, Cal-OSHA and all other federal and state statutory requirements. See all articles by this author ...

Scott AddisScott Addis
Scott serves as the President & CEO of The Addis Group and Addis Intellectual Capital. Founded in 1990, Scott has been recognized as one of the "25 Most Innovative Agents in America" by The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research. Scott resides in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania with his wife Bobbie. See all articles by this author ...

Jennifer WeathersbeeJennifer Weathersbee
With a strong belief that claims can be successfully managed using a proactive and comprehensive problem-solving approach, Jennifer Weathersbee oversees the Claim Services Department at InterWest Insurance Services, which provides claims consultation services for key clients, including those in alternative risk programs. See all articles by this author ...

Judy AdlamJudy Adlam
In her current role as President and CEO of LWP Claims Solutions, Judy Adlam has created an organization that leverages a culture of teamwork and excellence in order to consistently deliver results that are far superior to industry standards. She is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and a Senior Claims Law Associate (AEI). See all articles by this author ...

William ZachryWilliam Zachry
William Zachry has been the Vice President of Risk Management for Safeway Inc (the third largest retail grocery company in the US) since 2001. He oversees Safeway's nationwide self-insured, self-administered workers compensation program of 11 locations with 125 claims staff. See all articles by this author ...

Kevin QuinleyKevin Quinley
Kevin M. Quinley is the Principal and founder of Quinley Risk Associates, a specialty consulting company based in the Washington D.C. area. He has over 30 years experience in managing liability claims and litigation. He is a frequent writer and speaker on insurance and legal topics and can be reached at his website, www.kevinquinley.com. See all articles by this author ...

Don BarthelDon Barthel
Donald Barthel is a founding partner of Bradford & Barthel, LLP, an industry leader in the aggressive defense of Workers' Compensation, Subrogation, and Employment, and Labor matters. His entire legal career has been dedicated to the defense of employers' rights in the arenas of labor law, employment law, and workers' compensation. See all articles by this author ...

Cynthia Marcotte StamerCynthia Marcotte Stamer
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, recognized in International Who’s Who, and Board Certified in Labor & Employment Law, attorney and health benefit consultant Cynthia Marcotte Stamer has 25 years experience advising and representing clients on health and other employee benefit. employment, insurance and related matters. See all articles by this author ...

Anyck TurgeonAnyck Turgeon
Anyck Turgeon is a member of the Firestorm Expert Council. With more than 24 years of technology innovation experience, Anyck Turgeon is an executive that brings proven leadership, results-oriented practices and an impressive portfolio of industry successes. See all articles by this author ...

Karen WolfeKaren Wolfe
Karen Wolfe is founder, president and CEO of MedMetrics®, LLC. She has been working in software design, development, data management, and analysis specifically for the workers compensation industry for nearly twenty-five years. Ms. Wolfe's background in healthcare, combined with her business and technology acumen has resulted in a unique and focused expertise. See all articles by this author ...

Jeff BianchiJeff Bianchi
Jeff Bianchi has over 17 years' experience in underwriting, marketing and wholesale brokering. He is a Senior Vice President Property Broker at Swett & Crawford and consistently ranks among the top producers nationally at Swett & Crawford. His focus is on large property placements specializing in Catastrophe coverage including Earthquake, Hurricane, and Flood. See all articles by this author ...

Kurt GlassmanKurt Glassman
Over his 30+ year career, Kurt has started, acquired, and provided counsel to a variety of businesses and owners. He has built and led international and professional service organizations; created, through acquisition, a $50 million building materials operating entity; and developed multimillion-dollar real estate projects. See all articles by this author ...

Chuck SherrodChuck Sherrod
Dr. Chuck Sherrod is the President and Founder of NetErgonomics®, a company which focuses on preventative and proactive health services with a domain expertise in the health promotion or wellness and ergonomic fields. He is also the Director of the Ergonomics Institute at Life West. See all articles by this author ...

Timothy RoseTimothy Rose
Timothy Rose is a Workers' Compensation Insurance Defense attorney with the Law Offices of Bradford & Barthel, LLP. He earned his Juris Doctorate at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in July of 2007. Prior to his work with Bradford & Barthel, Timothy was a claims examiner with American International Group, Inc. and Insurance Company of the West, Inc. See all articles by this author ...

Kevin LongKevin Long
Kevin G. Long is certified as a Taxation Law Specialist by the California State Bar Board Of Legal Specialization — one of only some 300 tax specialists out of over 156,000 active California lawyers. His particular emphasis is on ESOPs and ESOP transaction planning and nonqualified and equity deferred compensation planning. See all articles by this author ...

Scott HinkleScott Hinkle
Scott Hinkle is a Shareholder of Grant, Hinkle & Jacobs, Inc., located in Solana Beach, California. Mr. Hinkle has over fifteen years of experience in the financial services arena. He specializes in the development and implementation of advanced business succession and estate planning strategies for business owners and high net worth individuals. See all articles by this author ...

Tom BoneTom Bone
With over 30 years of experience as an advisor, Tom Bone helps employers address the risks and threats to organizations and to the personal assets of their decision makers. As a licensed insurance broke, Tom also has specialized training in the area of Workers’ Compensation Insurance. He holds the professional designation of Professional WorkComp Advisor. See all articles by this author ...

Harry GriffithHarry Griffith
The late Harry Griffith had over 25 years of experience in insurance coverage, trial and appellate work. He was a partner of Branson, Brinkop, Griffith & Strong, LLP, and supervised the coverage group within the firm, which consisted of eight coverage attorneys. Mr. Griffith published numerous opinions in the area of insurance coverage. Mr. Griffith was a named California Super Lawyer both for 2009 and 2010. See all articles by this author ...

Hunter HoffmannHunter Hoffmann
Hunter Hoffmann is Head of US Communications at Hiscox and is responsible for media relations, social media, internal communications and executive messaging. He joined Hiscox in August 2010 and has a B.A. from Trinity College (CT) and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Previously he worked in communications and marketing roles for Swiss Re, American Express and Liquidity Services, Inc. See all articles by this author ...

Jim SatterfieldJim Satterfield
Jim Satterfield, President and COO of Firestorm® Solutions, LLC, is a nationally recognized expert on crisis management, threat assessment, disaster preparedness, and business continuity planning. He has extensive public and private company experience in the identification of problems and designing solutions. See all articles by this author ...

Tim BelberTim Belber
Tim Belber is the founder of Generational Wealth Planning & Design.Tim focuses his practice on helping self-made families align the power of their financial assets with their long term goals for flourishing as individuals and families across generations. Tim earned a business degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree at night from Seton Hall University. See all articles by this author ...

Jamie CooperJamie Cooper
Jamie Cooper is an insurance coverage lawyer, adjunct professor, author and speaker. Her insurance practice focuses on the evaluation and resolution of insurance matters involving coverage disputes, claims handling, bad faith, and other legal issues of interest to insurers. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Property and Casualty Insurance Law at the University of Houston Law Center. See all articles by this author ...

Fay FeeneyFay Feeney
Fay Feeney is a trusted adviser to corporate boards, directors and executives on emerging business trends that optimize strategy. She provides strategic insights on how to connect to real time information whether found on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube or Google. Fay brings her extensive SH&E, risk management and human resource expertise to this exciting and important area for business. See all articles by this author ...

LaTonya OlivierLaTonya Olivier
LaTonya Olivier has over 20 years of combined consulting and internal HR Executive experience. She has directly worked for employers ranging from divisions of large publicly owned corporations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. She has worked in private and public sector as well as nonprofit associations as an HR Leader. See all articles by this author ...

Ronald BachmanRonald Bachman
Ronald E. Bachman is the President and CEO of Healthcare Visions, a thought leadership firm dedicated to advancing ideas and policy initiatives that are impacting the U.S. health care market. As an actuary, he has extensive experience in healthcare strategy for payers, providers and employers. See all articles by this author ...

Nancy MoorhouseNancy Moorhouse
Nancy Moorhouse is founder and CEO of the Jasta Group. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Mine Safety Professionals (ISMSP). Nancy is also a certified OSHA and MSHA instructor. Nancy is an ALCM, ARM, CMSP, CSHM, CMSP, CSP and holds an MBA from California State University, Sacramento. See all articles by this author ...

James RuotoloJames Ruotolo
James Ruotolo is the Principal Insurance Fraud Solutions Architect in the Global Fraud & Financial Crimes Practice at SAS®. He is responsible for the planning, management and marketing of fraud detection and investigation management solutions for the property, casualty, life and disability insurance markets worldwide. See all articles by this author ...

Mike LopemanMike Lopeman
Mike Lopeman holds the position of Division Vice President Sales at Artex Risk Solutions, Inc. where he is involved in marketing various Artex programs. These include single parent captives, group captives, rent-a-captive programs and 831b captives. He has been a featured speaker at numerous insurance industry functions. See all articles by this author ...

Matt PrevostMatt Prevost
Matt Prevost is an Assistant Vice President in Philadelphia Insurance Companies' Management and Professional Liability Division. He is the Product Manager for both the Cyber and Miscellaneous Professional Liability Products, responsible for the nationwide underwriting, training, production and claims management for both products. See all articles by this author ...

John Erik FrakerJohn Erik Fraker
John Erik Fraker is the chair of the Charitable Planning & Philanthropy Practice Group for Ainer & Fraker, LLP. He specializes in high level estate planning, philanthropy, and charitable planning, and provides financial solutions and charitable techniques to help people reduce taxes, provide a lasting legacy, and strengthen the family’s core identity. See all articles by this author ...

Rick DalrympleRick Dalrymple
Rick Dalrymple is one of the owners of Insurance Office of America and has been in the business for over 30 years. In just three short years with a leading national insurance carrier, Rick was recognized nationally for his outstanding achievements and is considered by his peers to be in the top five percent of his field. He was named partner of the year in 2005. See all articles by this author ...

Dennis KellyDennis Kelly
Dennis Kelly is a businessman and pioneer in the development of health care finance strategies and health insurance programs. Transformation and transparency powered by a disciplined approach to the science of incentives, these relationship strategies motivate consumers to personally steward the cost and risk of health care. See all articles by this author ...

Steve HoldenSteve Holden
Steve Holden is a seasoned litigator with experience in all types of employment claims. When he is not aggressively defending claims, Steve helps employers prevent claims with cutting-edge legal and practical advice. His legal advice is combined with a keen business sense and practical human resource experience. See all articles by this author ...

Hal JohnsonHal Johnson
Hal Johnson has been CEO of eight different companies in the US and the UK. His primary focus has been building management teams to produce outstanding performance. In addition to serving on several boards of directors, Hal is Chairman and CEO of LeadershipOne. He consults widely and speaks regularly on how to mentor a company to greatness. See all articles by this author ...

Alec BradfordAlec Bradford
Alec Bradford is an attorney in the San Diego office of Bradford and Barthel with practice areas of California workers’ compensation insurance defense and international law. He received his Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 2007 from California State Polytechnical Institute at Pomona and received his Juris Doctorate and graduated Cum Laude in 2010 from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. See all articles by this author ...

Dr. Nicholas YphantidesDr. Nicholas Yphantides
Dr. Nicholas Yphantides serves as the Consulting Chief Medical Officer for San Diego County and is the National Director for Health & Wellness with Axene Health Partners. He is a cancer survivor and is an advocate for those in his community who need it the most. For nine years, Dr. Nick served as Chief Medical Officer of one the largest network of Community Clinics in San Diego County. See all articles by this author ...

Scott MartinScott Martin
Scott Martin focuses on developing employee benefit and commercial property-casualty insurance programs for private equity firms and large corporate clients. His extensive experience in implementing and managing effective cost-containment strategies is helping organizations across the country reach their human resources and financial goals. See all articles by this author ...

Stephen ElliottStephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott is the #1 Long Term Care agent in the nation. He has more clients and more in-force premium than any other agent in the country. Steve is also a national speaker on long-term care issues and appeared on the cover of Senior Market Advisor Magazine when he was awarded Senior Market Advisor of the Year Finalist in 2006. See all articles by this author ...

Laurie InfantinoLaurie Infantino
Laurie Infantino is the President of Insight Insurance Consulting and Insurance Community Center. Insurance Community Center is an internet-based company providing interactive insurance webinars, professional products, and a library of insurance reference materials. See all articles by this author ...

Wally BuranWally Buran
Wally Buran is the Edinfield Executive in Residence at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Executive Vice President of Firestorm Solutions. With Georgia Tech, he serves on the Advisory Boards of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. See all articles by this author ...

Tom EmerickTom Emerick
Tom Emerick is Partner and Chief Strategy Officer in Chicago-based Laurus Strategies and President of Emerick Consulting, LLC. Tom's years with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Burger King Corporation, British Petroleum, and American Fidelity Assurance Company have provided him with an excellent blend of experience and contacts. See all articles by this author ...

David LewisonDavid Lewison
David Lewison has been the Financial Services Practice Support Leader of AmWINS Brokerage since January 2011. He is highly experienced and knowledgeable in management liability and professional liability products such as: Directors & Officers, Cyberliability, Employment Practices and Professional Liability. See all articles by this author ...

Steve BushnellSteve Bushnell
Steve is a Senior Director at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (a company of Allianz) in Novato California, responsible for development of innovative new products, services and risk management information. Steve promotes the economic, environmental and risk management benefits of green buildings and sustainable practices. See all articles by this author ...

Akos SwierkiewiczAkos Swierkiewicz
Akos Swierkiewicz is the founder of IRCOS, LLC. He holds a BA in Economics from Temple University, the CPCU designation from the American Institute for Property and Casualty Underwriters. He is an ARIAS-US Certified Arbitrator and has experience as umpire in insurance dispute. See all articles by this author ...

John StandishJohn Standish
Chief John Standish, Retired, is a 32 year veteran of California law enforcement, first serving in the California Highway Patrol and then in the Fraud Division of the California Department of Insurance. He is currently a consultant to the SAS Institute, the worlds largest privately held software company, for the criminal justice - public safety, and fraud framework programs. See all articles by this author ...

John NelsonJohn Nelson
John Nelson has long been a champion of legislative and educational efforts in the health insurance industry. He is a Chief Executive Officer of Warner Pacific Insurance Services, one of the nation’s largest health insurance general agencies serving over 35,000 small employers with over $1.5 billion of inforce premium. See all articles by this author ...

Barry ZalmaBarry Zalma
Barry Zalma is an insurance coverage attorney and Certified Fraud Examiner. He is the founder of Barry Zalma, Inc., a California law firm whose practice emphasizes the representation of insurers and those in the business of insurance and is the principal consultant of Zalma Insurance Consultants. See all articles by this author ...

Kenneth W. Ruthenberg, Jr.Kenneth W. Ruthenberg, Jr.
Ken Ruthenberg has practiced exclusively in employee benefits law since 1979, covering qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, and welfare benefit plans. He has served as chairman of the State Bar's Taxation Section's Employee Benefits Committee. See all articles by this author ...

Jan MethenyJan Metheny
Jan Metheny is managing attorney of the Fullerton office of Bradford & Barthel, LLP. His previous work in criminal law, court appearances, and Trials has proven invaluable for case development including all stages of discovery, witness interviewing, conducting depositions, and presenting the Workers’ Compensation cases at Trial in a clear and coherent manner. See all articles by this author ...

Russell LeeRussell Lee
Russell Lee is not a risk management consultant; he is an organizational change consultant with extensive experience in risk management and loss prevention. He provides companies with the tools and guidance to develop the internal processes and linkages to effectively and sustainably manage risk and reduce losses. See all articles by this author ...

Chuck HewittChuck Hewitt
Chuck Hewitt is a veteran claims executive with over 40 years of management experience at both national and regional carriers. He is currently the Claims Technical Director of the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group in Santa Cruz, California. See all articles by this author ...

Suzanne LoughlinSuzanne Loughlin
Suzanne Loughlin is a founding member and Executive Vice President/Chief Administrative Officer of Firestorm® Solutions, LLC. She has extensive experience in the development of business continuity, communicable illness, emergency response, workplace violence and crisis communications plans. See all articles by this author ...

Cathy AguilarCathy Aguilar
Cathy Aguilar is a Workers' Compensation Claims Manager for the California Self Insured Security Fund. Additionally she has done independent consulting in many areas of workers' compensation for both private and public employers as well as excess insurance carriers, assisting in settling difficult claims. See all articles by this author ...

Chuck CoppageChuck Coppage
Chuck Coppage manages the Alternative Markets Division for InterWest Insurance Services where he assists in identifying clients who would benefit from insurance solutions involving risk transfer as part of their overall financial management strategy. See all articles by this author ...

Kip KolsonKip Kolson
Kip Kolson entered the financial services industry in 1967. His experience includes tenures in banking, commercial real estate development, and financial planning at a leading business and personal financial planning corporation as well as ownership of his own real estate company, and now his own family wealth leadership company. See all articles by this author ...

Cynthia ByersCynthia Byers
Cynthia is an Account Executive with InterWest Insurance Services and has over 13 years of formal insurance experience in managing hospitality and golf and country club risks.She is also a Certified Insurance Service Representative and is nearing the award of the coveted Certified Insurance Counselor designation. See all articles by this author ...

Curt ShawCurt Shaw
Curt Shaw is the CEO and founder of Succeed Management Solutions, LLC and has over 35 years of experience in key management positions with fortune 500 organizations and insurers. Curt is a retired Board Certified Industrial Hygienist and Safety Professional of 30 years, and an Environmental Engineer with an industry-wide reputation as an expert on risk mitigation. See all articles by this author ...

Michael RoweMichael Rowe
Michael Rowe has over 30 years of experience in the Property & Casualty Insurance Industry, predominantly in claims. Mike has significant exposure to IT initiatives involving predictive modeling and rules-based intelligence, and he is a strong advocate for infusing a clear business objective and quantifiable ROI into every business activity. See all articles by this author ...

Mark WebbMark Webb
Mark is the Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Pacific Compensation Insurance Company. He is currently Chair of the Association of California Insurance Companies Workers’ Compensation Committee and serves on numerous advisory and legal committees for the California Division of Workers’ Compensation. See all articles by this author ...

Chet ReillyChet Reilly
Chet Reilly is the President and CEO of Payality. Chet has been in the payroll business for 22 years, first working as a District Manager for ADP before starting his own payroll company that grew from a start-up to inclusion on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately-held companies in the United States, ranking #257 in the year 2000. See all articles by this author ...

Bruce HeffnerBruce Heffner
Bruce is an attorney that has a significant background with substantial business experience in insurance and reinsurance, underwriting, claims, risk management, corporate management, auditing, administrative & regulatory experience. He is especially adept at assessing the pitfalls and presence of bath faith and/or DTPA violations for Plaintiffs as well as how to avoid or mitigate such pitfalls for Defendants. See all articles by this author ...

Steve SchmutzSteve Schmutz
Steve Schmutz is the Founder and CEO of Claimwire.com. Steve has over 30 years experience in the software indsutry. The last 15 years focused on claims and risk management. He is an active participant in the workers' comp industry, and a frequent contributing author for several web sites, including Forbes.com. See all articles by this author ...

Dave DiasDave Dias
Dave is an experienced business insurance executive with special emphasis in leadership, strategy and sales. Partnering with his clients, Dave delivers a compelling network of world-class, complementing professionals focused on propelling their client’s mission. See all articles by this author ...

Michael PeabodyMichael Peabody
Michael D. Peabody received his Juris Doctorate and Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University School of Law and was admitted to practice law in 2002. He has practiced in the fields of workers compensation and employment law, including workplace discrimination and wrongful termination. See all articles by this author ...

Bryan GoldenBryan Golden
A Managing Director of Private Capital Corporation, Bryan Golden has broad experience in management of manufacturing enterprises in both public and private firms, and previously founded and operated his own manufacturing company. He was a founder of one of the earliest and largest Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) companies in America. See all articles by this author ...

Troy UnderwoodTroy Underwood
Troy R. Underwood is an entrepreneur with a talent for finding and developing technology solutions for business problems. As CEO of benefitsCONNECT® — one of the nation's leading online benefits enrollment, administration, and eligibility tracking systems for health insurance brokers — Troy strategizes ways to provide sophisticated, cutting-edge technology that improves efficiency and benefits communication within the broker community. See all articles by this author ...

MaryRose ReastonMaryRose Reaston
MaryRose Reaston is the Founder of Emerge Diagnostics, an Oklahoma-based company created to commercialize the Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment (EFA). Emerge Diagnostics focuses on reducing their clients’ claims costs via early resolution and enhanced treatment options for soft tissue injuries. They are experts in the field of electrodiagnostic medicine as it applies to injuries in the workplace and leaders in the ongoing development of innovative technology. See all articles by this author ...

Paul BinsfeldPaul Binsfeld
Paul Binsfeld is the CEO of Company Nurse, a firm specializing in injury management for workers' compensation. He has over 20 years of experience in the workers' compensation industry. Binsfeld has written articles for many insurance and workers’ compensation publications, such as The Journal of Workers’ Compensation, Public Risk, Risk & Insurance, National Underwriter, and Employee Benefit News. See all articles by this author ...

Andrew CavenaghAndrew Cavenagh
Andrew Cavenagh is the Managing Director and Founder of Pareto Captive Services. Andrew is a leading expert in the employee benefit group captive area. He is currently the chairman of SIIA’s Alternative Risk Transfer Committee and often speaks at various industry events. Andrew has created over fifteen separate group captives. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children. See all articles by this author ...

Ken O'DellKen O'Dell
Ken O’Dell is a partner in Firestorm Solutions and Vice President and Partner of MHP Structural Engineers in Long Beach, California. With years of experience in the structural engineering field and a creative approach to business and design, he brings a seasoned freshness to MHP. See all articles by this author ...

John PodestaJohn Podesta
John H. Podesta is a Partner in the San Francisco office of Murchison & Cumming, LLP. He focuses his practice in the areas of insurance coverage and bad faith, business litigation and construction law. Mr. Podesta is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law (J.D.) and the University of California, Berkeley (A.B.). See all articles by this author ...

Hale StewartHale Stewart
Hale Stewart is a captive insurance expert and a tax attorney. His clients range the gamut from high net worth individuals who utilize one or all of his estate planning, asset protection or captive insurance skills, to small companies forming a captive, to larger associations looking to lower their insurance costs. See all articles by this author ...

Patricia EyresPatricia Eyres
Patricia S. Eyres ("Patti") calls herself a "recovering litigator," who knows first-hand the value of paying attention to prevention. After spending 18 years defending companies in the courtroom, she resolved to help business leaders recognize potential legal landmines before they explode into lawsuits. See all articles by this author ...

Ron NewtonRon Newton
Ron Newton is the President of Peak Inc. and the author of No Jerks On The Job. Ron uses experience from his ground-breaking wilderness therapy program for troubled youth to provide strategic insight on how organizations may proactively avoid destructive behaviors and solve current ones. See all articles by this author ...

Pascal RayPascal Ray
Pascal Ray’s experience includes developing and managing Energy & Marine underwriting programs. Pascal has created, developed, and managed Energy and Marine Binding Authorities on behalf of the US Domestic, the London, and Bermudian insurance markets for the last 25 years. See all articles by this author ...

Oz HillOz Hill
Oz Hill has more than 25 years experience in emergency preparedness and response, security management, and continuity of operations and business planning. He uses lessons learned during his military career to help business consulting clients reach their peak preparedness levels. See all articles by this author ...

Dirk DuchschererDirk Duchscherer
Dirk Duchscherer confers with CEO’s, Risk Managers, Production Supervisors, and Facility Directors to identify problems and suggest cost effective solutions. He reviews compliance with such agencies as CALOSHA, NFPA, ANSI, ASTM, and DOT and provides clients with technical information on standards, codes, and regulations. See all articles by this author ...

Rick EldridgeRick Eldridge
Rick Eldridge is the President & CEO of Intuitive Insurance Corporation and the Managing Partner of Intuitive Captive Solutions, LLC. He brings direct experience in administration, underwriting, claims, policy construction, reinsurance and financial management to each captive intuitive he creates and manages. See all articles by this author ...

Rick GoldmanRick Goldman
As a Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law, Rick Goldman has practiced exclusively in all aspects of defense of Workers’ Compensation claims with a vast experience in subrogation, retirement hearings and civil litigation involving the management side of employment and labor matters. See all articles by this author ...

Daniel MaldonadoDaniel Maldonado
Mr. Maldonado is a partner with the law firm of Kunz Plitt Hyland & Demlong, P.C. Mr. Maldonado is an author/editor for Couch On Insurance 3d, a nationally recognized authoritative treatise on insurance law. Mr. Maldonado is also a contributing author for CAT Claims: Insurance Coverage for Natural and Man-Made Disasters. See all articles by this author ...

Jeff PettegrewJeff Pettegrew
Jeff Pettegrew was appointed as the first Executive Director/CEO of the California Self Insured Security Fund (SISF) in January, 2004. He was named "Risk Manager of the Year" in 1989 by Business Insurance magazine and was the Chairman of the Business Insurance National Workers Compensation Conference for 9 years. See all articles by this author ...

David AxeneDavid Axene
David Axene started Axene Health Partners in 2003 after a successful career at Ernst & Young and Milliman & Robertson. He is an internationally recognized health consultant and is recognized as a strategist and thought leader in the insurance industry. He earned an MS Degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington and a BS degree in Physics and Engineering from Seattle Pacific University. See all articles by this author ...