Expertise Description
I have more than 25 years experience in Insurance and Finance. My expertise includes: standard of care involving representations, presentations, sales and placement of life insurance products by licensed agents and Registered Representatives (who sell life and annuity products qualifying as “securities”); supervision issues of broker dealers and their registered representatives; suitability issues surrounding the sale of securities by registered representatives; assessing and evaluating life insurance policy illustrations for sustainability of the underlying insurance products; stochastic analysis (“Monte Carlo”) of variable life and annuity products; inappropriate sale of financial plans utilizing life insurance products, such as so-called welfare benefit plans (419(A)(f)(6)) and fully insured pension plans (412(i)); illustration and use of “premium financing” to support large premium / death benefit policy sales; “Stranger Owned Life Insurance” sales; and “Life Settlement” sales. I have over 15 years expert witness experience with consultations, deposition, and courtroom testimony.Areas of Expertise
Expert Witness
My expert witness experience includes: Mis-sold life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance, and annuities; Standards of care for insurance agents and brokers; Life insurance policy illustration misrepresentation; Mis-sold insurance damage assessment; Financed life insurance premiums (i.e. promising free life insurance); Welfare benefit plans (i.e. promising deductible life insurance premiums).
Consulting Experience
My consulting experience includes: determining client's genuine insurance needs; assisting in selecting an insurance broker; facilitating review of medical records before being submitted to an insurance company; reviewing of existing policies for independent, objective opinion of sufficient premiums; premium sufficiency calculations for variable life insurance using Monte Carlo analysis.
Professional Experiences
Education
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MBA | Finance and Insurance | University of California | Berkeley | ||
Licenses Certifications
| Licensed for consultation on life |
| health |
| long term care |
| disability |
| and annuities. |
| Variable product license (consultation). |
| Accredited Estate Planner |
| Chartered Life Underwriter |
Awards & Affiliation
| Kenneth Black |
| Jr. Leadership Award |
| Society of Financial Service |
| NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame |
| Best Paper Award |
| Academy of Financial Services |
Primary Affiliation
Society of Financial Service
Partial List of Consulting Expert Witness Cases
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