Life Expectancy Consultants

Steven A. Eisenberg, FSA, MAAA, is a Consulting Actuary with 50 years of experience in the Insurance Industry. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (1973) and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (1975).

Background Experience - Mr. Eisenberg's experience includes actuarial design, administration and illustration of various life insurance and annuity products, including traditional and non-traditional insurance products, universal life (or excess interest products), and both general account and separate account variable insurance COI charges products. It, also, includes pricing these products and developing appropriate actuarial assumptions (e.g. mortality and life expectancy, interest and discount rates, compensation, profitability expense assumptions).

He is also a co-inventor of several patents dealing with financial derivatives(swaps) relating to longevity and mortality mitigation.

In 1986, Mr. Eisenberg pioneered the development of large case COLI and BOLI and unwind strategies that are still used today. He is a renown expert in designing, developing, and evaluating Bank-owned life insurance (BOLI) and Corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) programs for insurance companies, banks, other financial institutions, brokers and litigation clients. This includes developing appropriate actuarial assumptions (mortality and longevity, COI charges, lapses and surrenders, expenses, taxes, interest and discount rates, compensation, policy dividends and life insurance company profitability and investment exposure (disintermediation)). He also developed administrative procedures, sophisticated illustration systems (for example, utilization of policy loans and partial surrenders) and insurable interest issues. His expertise also includes policy owner tax issues (e.g. Section 264, 7702, 7702A, 1035) and legislative changes. He has evaluated the appropriateness of these products (general or separate account including stable value) for corporate and bank policy owners, including the accounting and financial impact to the policy owners..

His services are offered to clients nationwide.

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François Sestier, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACC, CIME, is a Cardiologist and Life Expectancy Calculations consultant. An expert in his field, Dr. Sestier has delivered over 2,000 lectures around the world and authored over 45 publications. He has served as a Consultant and Medical Director for insurance companies for nearly 30 years.

Consulting - In his capacity as a medical officer for various insurance companies, including Quebec and Ontario Blue Cross since 1985 and Optimum Re Insurance Company since 2002, Dr. Sestier has reviewed over 1,000 applications for life Insurance, giving advice on the Mortality and Life Expectancy associated with the applicant's medical conditions.

He has performed calculations on such diverse conditions as traumatology, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, morbid obesity, diabetes, different cardiac pathologies, sudden death, stroke, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, liver cirrhosis, hepatitis B and C, and all kinds of cancers, leukemias and lymphomas.

Dr. Sestier - Life Expectancy Calculation

Education - Dr. Sestier graduated from medical school in Nancy, France, 1967, where he obtained certification in Cardiology, Pneumology, Occupational Medicine, and Aeronautical Medicine. In Canada, since 1973, he obtained a Quebec certification in cardiology (CSPQ), and a fellowship in cardiology of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCPc). Dr. Sestier also obtained a PhD in Experimental Medicine (McGill, 1977) and certifications from the American Board of Insurance Medicine (1995) and the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (2011).

Associations - Dr. Sestier is a past president of CLIMOA (1996-1997), the Canadian Life and health Medical Officer Association, past-president of CSME (2011-2013), the Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators, and the past president (2010-2012) of AIDC, the world association of medical experts. He is also a Professor of Medicine at University of Montreal, and since 1999 director of the bilingual program of Insurance and Medicolegal Expertise at University of Montreal.

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James F. Lineback, MD, FCCP, is a multiple board-certified Pulmonary Internist and has maintained a private practice in Chest Medicine since 1984. His long career in patient care also includes 10 years in emergency medicine as well as a practice since 2005 in Newport Beach, California which utilizes the advanced technology of the emerging field of anti-aging medicine for the early detection and reversal of coronary heart disease.

Dr. Lineback has also been involved in the education of medical students, interns, and residents since 1986. As an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, he teaches a course entitled Pathophysiology and Mechanisms of Disease.

Litigation Support - Dr. Lineback has provided expert witness services for over 25 years in medical malpractice and personal injury cases. He specializes in the determination of causation and life expectancy in complex, multi-system catastrophic injury cases. Dr. Lineback's strong background in basic science and clinical practice uniquely qualifies him to opine on behalf of both plaintiff and defendant.

Areas of Expertise:

Asthma Catastrophic Injury Chronic Lung Disease (COPD), Emphysema/Chronic Bronchitis Life Expectancy Postoperative Complications

Pneumonia/Chest Infections Pulmonary Embolism/DVT Respiratory Failure Septic Shock Wrongful Death Chest Trauma Complex Multi-System Disorders

Vera Dolan is an epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in the life and health insurance industries. She is one of the leading mortality experts in the life insurance industry. She writes underwriting manuals and policy and procedure manuals for life and health insurance companies.

Vera has testified in both state and federal court, and has been retained in over 150 cases since 2006 for plaintiffs and defense on an equal basis. She is very credible testifying in deposition and on the stand.

* Life expectancies that are personalized and accurate to the standards of the life insurance and life settlement industries. Addresses the cases when life expectancies that are simply taken from a life table or estimated by a doctor, actuary or biostatistician are too long, too short, insufficient or not credible. Addresses the cases when a complete insight into the individual's medical conditions and/or personal history of high-risk behaviors is needed to assist the judge or jury in their decision. This information often decides the case, see article for details.

* Expert in bad faith/wrongful denial of life/health insurance claims.

* Expert in life/health insurance underwriting material misrepresentation.

* Expert in medical risk assessment and underwriting issues.

* Expert in life insurance underwriting policies and procedures.

* Expert in epidemiology. Previous cases include infectious diseases, occupational and environmental exposures, pesticides and tobacco.

* Approved life expectancy expert with the U.S. Department of Justice.

* Active consultant to the life insurance industry conducting cohort mortality studies, and writing underwriting and policy and procedure manuals.

* Over 100 articles published on mortality research and underwriting.

* Friendly, clear, concise, objective and quantitative.

* There is no charge for the initial phone consultation.

* There is no charge for travel time.

Arthur B. Kagan, FSA, EA, is one of the most qualified Actuaries and Pension Plan consultants in the country. In his over 40 year career, he has helped thousands of plan sponsors with the management of their company’s retirement plans, as well as hundreds of thousands of plan participants with their pension benefits. 

Mr. Kagan served as the President and sole owner of a third party administration (TPA) and actuarial consulting firm for 26 years serving 650 plans;  Previously, he was president and partner of aTPA and actuarial firm serving 1400 plans. He is fully credentialed in actuarial valuations, plan funding, and present value calculations:

Mr. Kagan serves large, mid-size, and small plans covering all industries and all employer types.  He specialize in all aspects of:

Retirement Plans Actuarial Compliance Audits

Employee Disputes Valuations Contributions Contracts

 Mr. Kagan has presented many seminars on recent developments in pension plan industry and creative plan design to the Desert Estate Planning Council, California CPA Society, AXA Advisors, and various financial advisory and CPA firms.  He has also presented seminars on Life Insurance in Qualified Retirement Plans to Financial Planning Association of Los Angeles.