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:

Allan Windt specializes in the areas of Insurance Coverage, Duty to Settle and Bad Faith. In over 30 years in the insurance business, he has handled more than 10,000 claims for more than 70 insurance companies and hundreds of insureds in all 50 states. Mr. Windt has served as an expert witness in dozens of states.

He is the author of Insurance Claims & Disputes, Representation of Insurers and Insureds, West, 1982 first edition, 1988 second edition, 1996 third edition, 2001 fourth edition, and 2007 fifth edition. Mr. Windt's books have been cited as authoritative by more than 300 courts throughout the country.

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:

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.

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

Investigation

Search for coverage

Evaluation

Communication with policyholders

Communication with reinsurers

Settlement

Auditing

Mr. Evans has over 45 YEARS EXPERIENCE as a claims adjuster, licensed in three states and qualified in state and federal courts. Expert in good faith/bad faith, standards and practices and standard in the industry. Specialities and services include:

ExpertWitnessOpinion.com provides the best possible expert(s) and support staff with which to confront your opponent. Our pro-active approach maximizes awards and minimizes damages while protecting your most important asset: Your reputation

Our approach eliminates the problem of paying for expensive services without getting the results that you need. We use affordable support staff to do much of the legwork for the true experts – and the key word there is “true”. We also gather various opinions from research of case law which is pertinent to your case. In this fashion you will avoid being black marked by the courts as "expert shopping" while still being well informed and knowing the options. We do not hesitate to prepare our case, then review with true experts and if warranted, review again with additional experts. These behind-the-scenes-experts or peer reviewers assure that your team has the best possible information, techniques, and strategies to confront your opponent(s). We treat each case like it was our own life on the line, or we do not take the case.

EXAMPLE AREAS for which experts are available:

Gregory G. Wimmer is a veteran of the Life, Health and Annuity Business. Mr. Wimmer has been retained in both federal and state courts in 26 states. He has the requisite background to render opinions in:

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:

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.

Insurance Metrics provides expert witness testimony for insurance-based litigation. Clients include law firms representing plaintiffs, the defense and liquidators. Bill Hager, President, is a seasoned industry and regulatory executive with a distinguished history of insurance expertise.

Let us assist you with expert testimony for cases involving:

Bad Faith; Coverage and Application Issues; Damages, Ordinary and Punitives; Standards of Care; Custom and Practice; Malpractice (Agents and Actuaries); Insurance Agency Valuations; Liability; CGL; Auto, HO, Disability, Health, Life, Annuities; Regulation; Reinsurance; Surplus Lines; Workers Comp

Expertise And Services:

Dr. Carol A. B. Jordan is an Insurance and Risk Management Consultant and Testifying Expert. She has been the sole proprietor of Jordan Consulting since 1988 and through her consulting firm works as a testifying expert in the areas of Life Insurance, Disability Income, Personal Lines, Insurance Industry Practice and Bad Faith. Dr. Jordan serves as the Eminent Scholar of Risk Management & Insurance at Troy University.

Qualifications:

• Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, emphasis in Risk Management and Insurance
• Eminent Scholar of Risk Management and Insurance
• State Farm Endowed Professor of Insurance
• Insurance and Risk Management Consultant, and Testifying Expert
• Insurance Agent
• Commercial Insurance Underwriter
• Insurance Manager
• Claims Examiner

Joseph Petitta, President of JP/Inscon Group, Inc., has 35 years experience in the Insurance Claims Industry in the areas of technical claim handling, management and consulting/expert witness services. Consulting and expert witness services are provided for insurance related litigation either from the plaintiff or the defense perspective in the following areas:

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:

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:

Mr. Miller, a Board Certified Forensics Examiner, is a nationally recognized insurance consultant, published author, lecturer and guest speaker. He has extensive experience as a qualified trial expert in state and federal courts in both civil and criminal cases, nationwide. His particular areas of expertise include "bad faith" allegations, coverage disputes, coverage interpretation, insurance industry standards, customs, practices, and underwriting.

Mr. Miller has testified in approximately 400 cases nationwide, including more than 90 trials. He is certified as an insurance arbitrator by the Insurance Arbitration Forum, Inc.. He is the author of the national best seller book HOW INSURANCE COMPANIES SETTLE CASES now in its 13th edition, and has designed the software program HOW TO ESTIMATE THE VALUE OF A BODILY INJURY CLAIM.

Since he began working in the insurance industry in 1963, Mr. Miller has adjusted approximately 34,000 claims for over 150 insurance companies, trained adjusters & written claims manuals. He has owned & operated his own independent insurance adjusting firm, and has worked as a claims manager for a national insurance company. He holds federal & state insurance adjusting licenses & is also a licensed private investigator. In addition to providing consulting services to insurance companies & policy holders, Mr. Miller acts as a consultant to the Department of Insurance, State of California.

All aspects of Property & Casualty Insurance. Standard of care of insurance agents, brokers, surplus lines brokers, underwriters, claims adjusters, insurance companies, risk managers, consultants, independent and public adjusters. Interpretation of coverage terms, standard forms and their uses. Creation of manuscript forms. Unfair Claims Practices Act. Potential bad-faith issues.

Have received following insurance designations: CPCU, CIC, ARM, AAI. Hold several agent and broker licenses. Have testified in over two hundred cases in State and Federal courts. 40 years of experience in the industry. 30 years of teaching in the industry. Certified by Department of Insurance to provide many continuing education courses.

Richard Mintzer Associates, LLC serves as both Insurance Industry Expert Witnesses and Consultants. They offer their services nationally. Based on their experience, they place special emphasis on agency / company disputes, professional responsibility issues, insurance practice and standards, building product failure, (construction defects, and environmental coverage's.defense only.)

Richard Mintzer has thirty years experience as a General Agent for several of the leading Property and Casualty Insurers in the U.S as well as overseas, which qualifies him as an expert on most insurance issues. He was the Director of Insurance Education for ten years at the Community College of Aurora until he resigned in September 2002.

Areas of Expertise:

Steve Adkins, CPCU, ARM, AIM has over 42 yrs experience in property & casualty insurance: underwriting management, retail agent & broker, risk management, consultant & expert witness.

Specialties: Property \ casualty coverage analysis, industry stdrds, coverage disputes, bad faith, insurable interest, UM/UIM.

Credentials:

• American Institute - Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (1978)
• American Institute - Associate in Management (1992)
• American Institute - Associate in Risk Management (1995)
• Ohio Department of Insurance - Resident Agent Property & Casualty (1992)

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

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