MCS Associates is a nationally recognized consulting group that has provided financial, operations and regulatory/compliance consulting services nationwide to financial institutions, insurance companies and regulatory agencies as well as real estate and financial services organizations for over 30 years.

Expert Witness and Litigation Consulting are a primary focus of our services. We undertake expert witness assignments throughout the United States and our clients include several hundred leading law firms around the country, working on behalf of both plaintiff and defendant financial institutions, borrowers, depositors, investors, developers, insurance companies and their insured, securities/insurance/real estate brokers/agents, regulators and government agencies, and individuals.

Together with MCS Associates’ specialized resources in banking, financial services and real estate, we also draw on key strategic alliances in insurance, economics, academia and the securities industry to meet a wide range of expert witness needs. Our litigation experts include experienced bankers, lenders, consultants, regulators, managers, brokers & agents in insurance, real estate, and securities; insurance claims and underwriting managers; economists, accountants, appraisers, real estate analysts, and academics.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Banking Operations/Administration

Check Fraud

Lending Policies, Custom and Practice

Loan Underwriting & Credit Administration

Sub Prime Loan Originations, Underwriting, Securitizations & Servicing

Bankruptcy, Foreclosures and Workouts

Trust & Fiduciary Issues / Operations

Securities Brokerage & Investments

Valuations & Damages Analysis

Forensic Accounting

Employment / Compensation

Real Estate Brokerage & Management

Title Insurance & Escrow

Real Estate Appraisal & Transactions

Insurance Industry Custom & Practice

Insurance Coverages / Claims Handling

Insurance Bad Faith

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.

Qualifications: 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

Expertise Offered to Law Firms:

• Insurance and Reinsurance Expert Witness and Arbitrator
• Errors and Omissions Litigation Services
• Reinsurance Analysis & Underwriting
• Insurance Underwriting and Claims Analysis
• Finite Risk Reinsurance Disputes & Agreements
• Insurance Agency Agreements and Mergers and acquisitions disputes
• Treaty Reinsurance issues
• Captive Formation for Agents/Carriers/Corporations
• Captive Feasibility Studies
• Fronts \ Fronting and Reinsurance for Captives
• Capital Raising for Captives
• Insurance Distribution System - Insurance to Retail Insurance Broker to Excess and Surplus Lines Broker to Managing General Agency to Insurance Carrier to Reinsurance Broker to Reinsurance Company to Lloyd's Broker to Lloyd's Syndicate to Bermuda Retrocessionair

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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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Gerry Katz is an Expert Witness and Disability Insurance Claim Consultant with more than 40 years experience in the disability insurance arena. He helped a major insurance carrier design their entire portfolio of disability insurance products. Mr. Katz is the 1997 recipient of the Harold R. Gordon Memorial Award for the "Health Insurance Industry Person of the Year," granted by the National Association of Health Underwriters.

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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.

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.

David L. Stegall is an Insurance Expert with over 30 years of experience in Insurance, Self-Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management. He has underwritten, marketed, developed and sold traditional insurance products. Mr. Stegall has implemented self-insured programs for qualified self-insurers, created self-insured funds, developed captive insurance companies, created national programs, and placed reinsurance for both standard and alternative programs.

We provide expert witness services and testimony in disputes, arbitration and litigation as well as comprehensive risk and management consulting services.

Areas of Expertise:

Agents, Brokers, Underwriters Alternative Risk Transfer Automobile Insurance Bad Faith Captive Insurance Companies Errors and Omissions Fair Claim Practices Liability Insurance

Managing General Agents Professional Liability Property and Casualty Insurance Reinsurance & Self-insurance Underwriting Management Usual and Customary Practices Wind, Hurricane, Flood Workers Compensation