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Work Experience
Former director of an insurance or reinsurance company: No
Current officer of an insurance or reinsurance company: Yes
Former officer of an insurance or reinsurance company: Yes
Insurance Company: Underwriting Department: 8 years. Various underwriting positions including primary, excess, surplus lines, treaty and facultative, domestic and International busniess. Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 1 year. Preident, VP Reinsurance underwriting Claim Department: 3 years. large claims committee member for large property and casualty business as well as reinsurance Ceded Reinsurance Department: 2 years. run-off operations including incoming audit coordination work Assumed Reinsurance Department: 4 years. run-off operations including auditing cedent business
Insurance Company: Underwriting Department, Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary), Claim Department, Ceded Reinsurance Department, Assumed Reinsurance Department
Reinsurance Company: Underwriting Department: 3 years. VP Reinsurance Underwriting Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 1 year. VP Reinsurance Underwriting Claim Department: 2 years. run-off operations including auditing reinsured business, managing litigations and arbitrations
Reinsurance Department: Reinsurance Department, Underwriting Department, Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary), Claim Department
Insurance - related firms: Run-off Manager: 4 years. VP , Run-off Run-off Manager: 4 years. VP , Run-off Run-off Manager: 4 years. VP , Run-off
Independent/Other Relevant Experience: Independent/Unaffiliated Arbitrator, Umpire and/or Mediator: 26 years. Arbitrator mediator and umpire
Other Work Experience: TPA, Consultant, Run-off Manager, Independent/Unaffiliated Arbitrator, Umpire and/or Mediator
Breakdown of Experience
Accident & Health: 35%
Alternative/ Self Insurance/ Risk Management: 20%
Architects & Engineers: 15%
Asbestos: 25%
Automobile Liability/Property: 50%
Bad Faith/Eco: 15%
Captives/Risk Retention Groups: 5%
Catastrophes (Casualty): 20%
Catastrophes (Property): 20%
Commercial Liability: 50%
Commercial Property: 20%
Commutations: 30%
Construction Defects: 10%
Contract Wording: 20%
Directors & Officers: 5%
Energy: 15%
Environmental/Pollution: 25%
Excess/Surplus Lines: 20%
Healthcare: 25%
Insolvencies: 45%
International: 20%
Life: 25%
Lloyd's: 15%
London Company Market: 15%
Long Term Disability: 10%
MGA/MGU: 20%
Personal Lines: 20%
Product Liability: 50%
Product/Consumer Warranties: 10%
Professional Liability/Errors &, Omissions: 5%
Third Party Administrator: 25%
Toxic Tort: 20%
Workers' Compensation: 30%
ARIAS Experience
ARIAS Conference Faculty: Spring 2006, Spring 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2013
Ethics Training, as Trainee: fulfilled all of the required course and seminars to mainatin my certifications since 1998
Workshops, As Faculty: several
Workshops, as Trainee: No
ARIAS Training Committee: 2
Arbitration Experience
Number of Arbitrations as an Arbitrator: 138
Number of Appointments as Arbitrator: 138
Completed Arbitrations as Arbitrator: 114
Arbitration Experience: As Employee Manager: 35
Biography
In excess of fifty years experience in commercial. insurance and the reinsurance industry. I started my practice as an independent commercial, insurance and reinsurance domestic and international arbitrator and mediator in 1994. I speak, read, write and participate in cases conducted in French, Spanish and Arabic. I participated in more than two hundred and fifty cases as a company representative, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, umpire and mediator. My specialties include commercial property, casualty, life and health, worker's compensation, International and Sharia Law, London Market, Crop insurance, financial and banking, oil and gas, privatization, captive arrangements and transportation (including long haul trucking) insurance and reinsurance business. Certifications and affiliations: ARIAS-US Certified Arbitrator and Umpire, American Arbitration Association Neutral, International Centre for Dispute Resolution Neutral, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Neutral and AIRROC Neutral