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In The Advantages of Strategic Advisory Boards For Agency Owners insurance agencies expert witness Andres Barile, MBA, CPCU, writes:

Legal and Tax Advice

• Selecting an insurance litigation law firm – The number of lawsuits between agents and insurance companies has dramatically increased over the past five years. Interviewing law firms for litigation purposes requires a type of expertise that agent owners do not have. Your strategic advisory board will only be as good as you, the agent owner, want it to be. It will be your responsibility to keep your board informed of situations that affect your agency.

In Child Abuse Pediatrics: A Certified Sub-Specialty In Pediatrics child abuse expert witnesses at Child Abuse Pediatrics Consulting Services write:

In choosing a quality medical expert for a family, criminal or malpractice matter involving sexual abuse, sexual assault, physical abuse, child neglect or child fatality, the attorney should have an understanding of current certifications in the field. On the initial call, the attorney should feel comfortable that the expert is objective, familiar with the wide body of child abuse literature, and comfortable providing education about your case.

Certifications

Risk assessment expert witnesses may testify on the risk management process, risk analysis, enterprise risk management, and associated matters. In Uncertainty in Probabilistic Risk Assessment: A Review, A.R. Daneshkhah writes:

Risk assessment is widely recognized as a systematic process for quantitatively (or qualitatively) describing risk. Risk is commonly described as a combination of the likelihood of an undesirable event (accident) occurring and its consequences. Alternatively, Kaplan (1997) expressed risk as a mathematical combination of an accident’s event probability of occurrence and the consequence of that event should it occur.

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Merchandise licensing expert witnesses may testify on merchandising, character images, and merchandising fees. In the news recently, U.S. District Judge David Carter, Santa Ana, CA, dismissed the latest Bratz lawsuit against Mattel Inc. MGA Entertainment Inc. accused Mattel of antitrust violations over MGA’s Bratz dolls.

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In A Comparison of Self-Funded and Insured Health and Welfare Plans, health benefits expert witness Mark Johnson, J.D., Ph.D., ERISA Benefits Consulting, Inc., writes:

By working around the state insurance reserve, contribution, and other requirements applicable to insurance companies, MEWAs typically market their coverage at a lower rate than those of regulated companies. This is primarily why a MEWA is an attractive alternative for small businesses who find it difficult to obtain affordable health care coverage for their employees. In reality, however, a number of MEWAs have been unable to pay claims as a result of insufficient funding and inadequate reserves.

Sometimes MEWAs are operated by individuals who drain the assets through excessive administrative fees and embezzlement. Since 1983 a MEWA that constitutes an ERISA-covered plan is required to comply with the provisions of Title I of ERISA applicable to employee welfare benefit plans, in addition to state insurance laws and regulations.

In The Case for Forensic Polygraph Testing in Post-Adjudication Sexual Offender Examination and Management, polygraph expert witness Ken Blackstone writes:

The Problem

Polygraph examination is a catch-all term used to describe the use of the polygraph instrument, either as a forensic tool to determine the veracity of a statement or as a utility tool to generate statements and disclosures. While these two approaches are superficially similar their foundations are not.

Risk assessment expert witnesses may testify on the risk management process, risk analysis, enterprise risk management, and associated matters. In Experts chide TSA for poor risk assessment of security measures, Jim Harper, Cato Institute’s

Director of Information Policy, says:

Control over passenger screening technology should be shifted to airlines because the private sector is better than the Transportation Security Administration at making economical security choices based on risk management analyses.

In The Advantages of Strategic Advisory Boards For Agency Owners insurance agencies expert witness Andres Barile, MBA, CPCU, writes:

Accessing capital to grow your agency – For the geographical expansion of your wholesaler, you require additional capital. The strategic advisory board has already approved the expansion expenditure, and now turns to securing capital. Strategic advisory directors have access to expansion capital. The entire process of obtaining expansion capital must be done professionally, and is another area where strategic advisory directors can make a significant contribution.

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