With 33 years of experience working for several major insurance carriers, Paul F. Amoruso is uniquely qualified to assist you on insurance related matters on local or national issues. If you are an insurance company, insured, or law firm and need an independent review of an insurance issue regarding litigation, operations, practices or procedures, he is available to assist.

Mr. Amoruso has served as an Expert Witness in both State and Federal court. Having worked in all operation areas of the insurance industry he is able to testify to the generally observed and accepted industry practices.

Areas of Expertise:

Insurance Customs and Practices

Company Policies

Management Involvement

Proper Staffing

Coverage Denial

Agency and Insurance Company Relationships

Case Evaluation

Reserve Policies

Workers Compensation

Liability Personal or Commercial

Commercial and Personal Property Losses

Authority Level

Industry Ethics and Norms

Bad Faith

Claims Handling Practices

Insurance Company Operations

Andrew J. Barile, CPCU, CEO of Andrew Barile Consulting Corporation, Inc., has over 40 years of experience in the Property Casualty Insurance and Reinsurance Industry. He is the co-founder of the first publicly held Bermuda reinsurer and is on the board of both domestic and offshore insurance companies. Mr. Barile has an MBA from Stern’s (NYU) business school, and has won the AngloAmerican Fellowship to study at Lloyd’s of London, with his thesis on the captive insurance company.

Mr. Barile's insurance expertise expands the entire insurance distribution system. He has either owned or has been employed by the following types of insurance firms:

• Wholesale insurance broker/excess and surplus lines
• Managing General Agency on behalf of both admitted and non-admitted insurance companies
• Admitted and non-admitted insurers
• Reinsurance Intermediary
• Direct-Writing Reinsurer
• Broker Market Reinsurer
• Bermuda Reinsurer
• Captive Insurer
• Reinsurance Arbitrator/Umpire
• Independent Director, Domestic and Offshore Insurance Companies

SERVICES OFFERED:

To Insurance and Reinsurance Companies:

• Reinsurance negotiation and structure
• Marketing negotiating
• Insurance Industry Mergers and Acquisitions
• Director/Insurers and Offshore Insurers
• Access to Capital
• Insurance product development
• Access to investment management
• Access to litigation and Actuarial Services

To Owners of Agencies:

• Insurance Company Market Finding
• Program Design and Implementation
• Agency-Company Relations (Negotiating MGA Agreements)
• Merger & Acquisition experience
• Executive Team & Board of Directors experience
• Private Equity and Capital raising

To Owners of Corporations:

• Captive Formation for Agents / Carriers / Corporations
• Captive Feasibility Studies
• Fronts and Reinsurance for Captives
• Capital Raising for Captives

To Private Equity Firms, Hedge Funds & Investment Firms:

• Custom Market Research Reports, Third Party Administrators, Managing General Agents, Reinsurance Intermediaries
• Independent Research & Due Diligence
• Searching for and Identifying Targets
• Valuations
• Independent Board of Director for Wholesalers, MGAs, Insurers and Reinsurers

Mergers & Acquisitions:

• Identifying and Purchasing Small to Midsize Insurance Companies
• Due Diligence
• Regulatory Negotiations
• Rating Organization Strategies
• Liason to AMBEST COMPANY for Ratings
• Accessing Capital

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Burl Daniel, CPCU, CIC, CRM entered the Insurance Industry in 1973 and was an Insurance Agency Principal for twenty three years. He is retained as a Property and Casualty Insurance Expert Witness by defense and plaintiff counsel. His career includes broad expertise across all lines of Property and Casualty insurance. Burl Daniel Associates is well-known in the legal community for responsiveness to attorney inquiries, depth of insurance knowledge and attention to detail. Their methodical case analysis, independent research and concise presentation of opinions results in credibility with juries and the courts. Representative industries include clients in Construction, Energy, Transportation, Manufacturing, Technology, Financial Institutions, Non-Profits, and Import/Export.

Mr. Daniel has the requisite knowledge to render opinions in the following areas of expertise:

Insurance Coverage Expert Insurance Agent (Broker) Error & Omission Insurance Bad Faith Commercial Auto Insurance Workers Compensation Commercial General Liability Insurance Product Liability Insurance Commercial Umbrella Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Personal Auto and Umbrella Professional Liability (Errors & Omissions)

Claims Made Insurance Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Employment Practices Liability Property Insurance Expert Boiler & Machinery / Equipment Breakdown Business Interruption / Business Income Flood Insurance Inland & Ocean Marine Insurance Crime Insurance / Fidelity Bonds Reinsurance Claims Handling Custom & Practice

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Donald J. Brayer is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), a Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU), an Associate in Claims, an Associate in Reinsurance (ARe), a Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS) and a Management Liability Insurance Specialist (MLIS). He also has an MBA in management and finance. Mr. Brayer has served as a litigation consultant, expert witness and arbitrator. He has served both plaintiffs and defendants addressing the activities of insurers and agent/brokers.

Areas of Expertise:

Underwriting

Risk evaluation

Agents & Brokers Duties

Managing General Agents

Policy design and interpretation

Application design

Custom and Practice

Pricing

Program underwriting

Reinsurance

Portfolio transfers

Claims

Investigation

Search for coverage

Evaluation

Communication with policyholders

Communication with reinsurers

Settlement

Auditing

Insurance Expert Network, LLC (IEN) is a network which includes over 200 highly qualified, reliable Insurance Experts with Litigation Management, Insurance Industry, and Expert Witness experience. Staffed by Insurance Industry Professionals, they easily discern requisite skills necessary to properly and fully support the Client. IEN is the only referral service providing insurance experts exclusively.

IEN provides experts for both plaintiffs and defendants

The experts in IEN are dedicated to their critical role in litigation, whether it be educating counsel on nuances of insurance, assisting attorneys in determining the merit of a case, testing potential evidence or testifying in a deposition or trial.

IEN provides in-depth knowledge of the Insurance Industry and maintains a listing of over 120 Specialized Insurance Areas. The following is a sample of these areas:

Actuary Automobile Insurance Bad Faith Binders Business Interruption Captives Construction Defects Credit Insurance Directors & Officers Excess & Surplus Lines Fidelity Fraud General Liability

Insurance Accounting Insurance Business Processes Life & Health Insurance Marine Insurance Misrepresentation Producer Errors & Omissions Producer Standards & Practices Production Development Professional Liability Property Insurance Regulatory Compliance Reinsurance Surety Workers Compensation

View the Complete List of Specialized Insurance Areas

The IEN Advantage:

1. There is no charge for referrals.
2. Generally, a nationwide search and subsequent referral can be completed within 48 hours.
3. To assist the attorney with the selection process, IEN provides a case-specific statement of qualification from each potential expert.
4. IEN personnel are highly experienced and knowledgeable about insurance.

Expertise And Services:

Casualty, Property and Professional Liability Specialist.

Underwriting Officer for three insurers - Primary & Umbrella.

CEO of Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Brokerage firm.

Major Account high-hazard and Specialty risk experience throughout career.

Managing General Underwriter and Agent experience.

Reinsurance Ceded & Assumed.

Active in insurance for forty years.

List of prior testimony and references available.

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Jim Leatzow has 36 years of "hands-on" practical, property / casualty insurance agency experience. Leatzow has literally worn "every hat there is to wear in the P/C insurance business.

He provides expert & arbitration services nationally & internationally with no charge for travel time. He is articulate, efficient & equally comfortable within the U.S. & in foreign venues.

His experience includes:

36 years of insurance industry experience

30 years as a national, property/casualty insurance agency owner

26 years as a national, property/casualty Managing-Underwriting General Agent MGA

21 years as a national, Third Party Administrator (TPA) insurance/construction claim handler

16 years as an active Reinsurance Company officer

Certified insurance & reinsurance arbitrator (U.S. / U.K. / Bermuda)

Certified commercial arbitrator globally (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators U.K.)

Licensed nation-wide for 25 years until 2005 (agency sold)

Recognized for the quality of his Rule 26 Reports on complex cases

History of representing both plaintiff & defense

No charge for travel time "coast to coast"

Leatzow's specialties include:

Agent-Broker-Agency-MGA standard of care / Bad Faith / Broker E&O Claims / Coverage / Insurance placement / Agent - Broker custom & practice / Surety / Professional Liability / Adjudicating construction industry E&O claims / E&O / D&O / Claims-made coverage / Fronting / Claims-made trigger / Surplus Lines coverage / "Program" business / Underwriting / Licensing / Claims handling standard of care / Property / General Liability / Premises Liability / Products Liability / Off-shore placements / Arbitration

Brian E. Gagan has over 45 years of experience in Insurance Underwriting, Marketing, Brokerage and Consulting for corporations and government.

His Consultation and Expert Witness Services are in the area of Insurance Litigation, including broker/agent standard of care, coverage interpretation (property and casualty coverages), construction defect, disputed premiums (dividends and retrospective rating adjustments), duty to defend, lost policies, and rescission due to misrepresentation.

Mr. Gagan has served as an Expert Witness in over 50 cases on property and casualty insurance matters, with deposition and trial experience for plaintiff and defense.

Expertise:

Property Insurance

Crime Insurance

Liability Insurance

Professional Liability Insurance

Miscellaneous Insurance

Workers' Compensation

Daryll W. Martin - Unique Professional Experience as a Lawyer, Insurance Broker and Insurance Brokerage Executive. Mr Martin has over 24 years of insurance experience, serving nearly half of that time as corporate counsel for two international brokers, and the other half of that time as a senior insurance brokerage executive.

Broad Coverage Experience: Property & Casualty; Employee Benefits / Life & Health (qualified and non-qualified); D&O / Employment Practices Liability / Fiduciary; Property / Business Interruption / Boiler & Machinery / Inland & Ocean Marine; Casualty: General Liability / Professional Liability / Workers Compensation / Umbrella / Excess.

Broad Brokerage Customer Industry Experience: Construction; Energy; Transportation; Manufacturing; Financial Institutions; Health Care; Public Entity / Not For Profit; and, Technology

Extensive Insurance Industry Operational Experience: Executive officer of nationally ranked insurance brokers; Managed and handled a variety of international, national, and middle market accounts; Self Insurance / Large Retentions / Alternative Risk Transfer Vehicles; Foreign Placements; Wholesale Brokerage; Insurance Underwriting; Reinsurance; Technical Services / Loss Control / Actuarial/Risk Management Consulting; Actuary Services / Actuary Liability; Insurer Solvency / Market Security; Finance and Accounting; Mergers & Acquisitions; Insurance Sales; Client Service Standards; Technology Infrastructure; Human Resource Management; and, Insurer / Broker Relationship Management.

Robert Hughes Associates, Inc., was founded in 1979 with the goal of providing insureds and self-insureds with an organization that was able to give responsive, innovative and objective counsel regarding their insurance and risk-based needs.

RHA, Inc., is built upon a foundation of trust, reliability, independence, diversity and objectivity. In simple terms, we work with you in a hands-on manner to bring about the very best solutions to all of your unique and complex insurance and risk-related problems.

Whether your consulting needs require Insurance, Risk Management or Actuarial Services, we can provide you with the very best solutions from the very best people in the insurance industry. If you are looking for assistance in the areas of insurance company management, specialized insurance programs or insurance-based litigation support services, we have the right people with the right experience for the job

SERVICES PROVIDED:

Litigation Support Services:

Confidential Consulting

Trial Testimony

Depositions

London Market Research

Insurance Archeology

Actuarial Services:

Adequacy of Current Reserves

Future Losses, Ultimate Losses and IBNR

Cost and Attachment Points for Excess Coverage

Current Losses and Loss Expense Reserves

Statutory Opinions on Loss Reserves

Statutory Rate Filing Requirements

Loss Reserving Data Systems and Methodologies

Annual Actuarial Valuations

Feasibility Studies

Experience Modification Analysis

Decision Analysis

Life Expectancy Models

Insurance Management:

Day to Day Company Management

Premium Levels and Loss Patterns

Supervision of Third-Party Administrators

Statutory Filings

Regulatory Correspondence and Inquiries

Monthly Financial Reports

Loss Reserve Analysis to Predict Losses

Actuarial Trending and Development

Claims Processing and Payments

Adequacy of Claims Reserves

Custom Insurance Programs:

Niche Markets

Risk retention Groups

Insurance Pools

Innovative Business Programs

Insurance and Risk Management Consulting:

Insurance Structure Review

Policy Review and Analysis

Bid Specifications

Financial Analysis of Retentions

Claims Reviews

Claims Auditing Services

Claims Management

Claims Handling Procedures