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Paul D. Hawksworth

Certified Arbitrator

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Personal Information

Address: 19513 Forestdale Court
(Summer Address)
Mokena, IL 60448
Phone: 708 326 4649
Fax: 708 326 4650

Current Employment

Company: Self-employed
Address: 2914 Wilderness Bl. E.
(Winter Address)
Parrish, FL 34219
Phone: 941-776-2285
Fax: 941-776-2600
Email: phawkswort@aol.com

Offering Services as Expert Witness in:

Excess of Loss Reinsurance Agreements, Property Underwriting, Pro Rata / Quota Share Reinsurance Agreements, Fronting Arrangements

Previous Employment

Company: Willis Faber North America 1993-1995
Position(s) and Responsibilities: Vice Chairman
Company: M&G America/Toa-Re America 1976-1993
Position(s) and Responsibilities: CEO
Company: CNA/INSURANCE 1957 TO 1976
Position(s) and Responsibilities: ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT / DIRECTOR OF UNDERWRITING

Credentials

Attorney: No
Education: ARIAS-U.S. Umpire

Work Experience

Insurance Company: 19 years

Underwriting Department: 19 years. UNDERWRITER, REGIONAL MANAGER, NATIONAL DIRECTOR

Reinsurance Company: 16 years

Underwriting Department: 6 years. DIRECTOR OF UNDERWRIITING

Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 10 years. COO, CEO

Insurance-related Firms: 3 years

Broker: 3 years. VICE CHAIRMAN

Independent/Other Relevant Experience: 12 years

Independent/Unaffiliated Arbitrator, Umpire and/or Mediator: 12 years. ARBITRATOR, UMPIRE, EXPERT WITNESS, CONSULTANT

Breakdown of Experience

Catastrophes (Property)   10%
Contract Wording   10%
Disability   5%
MGA/MGU   5%
Product Liability   5%
Commercial Liability   5%
Commercial Property   5%
Excess/Surplus Lines   5%
Accident & Health   5%
Catastrophes (Casualty)   4%
Long Term Disability   4%
Personal Lines   4%
Third Party Administrator   3%
Toxic Tort   3%
Worker's Compensation   3%
Agricultural   3%
Asbestos   3%
Automotive Liability/Property   3%
Environmental/Pollution   2%
Professional Liability/Errors & Omissions   2%
Ocean Marine   1%
Aviation   1%
Captives/Risk Retention Groups   1%
Alternative/Self-Insurance/Risk Management   1%
Architects & Engineers   1%
Fidelity & Surety   1%
Financial Guarantee   1%
Finite   1%
Healthcare   1%
Life   1%
Commutations   1%

By Market

U.S. Market: 95%

U.K. Market: 1%

Bermuda/Off-shore Market: 4%

Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 30/70%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 85/15%
Former Insurance or Reinsurance Company Officer
Former Insurance or Reinsurance Company Director

ARIAS Experience

Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; April 2010

ARIAS Conference Faculty: 3; Fall 2003, Fall 2006, Spring 2008

Arbitration Experience

Number of Arbitrations

As an Arbitrator: 79
As an Umpire: 28

Arbitrator Experience

Number of Arbitrations

19 Appointed as an arbitrator.
34 Acted as an arbitrator through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
26 Acted as an arbitrator through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Umpire Experience

Number of Arbitrations

4 Appointed as an umpire.
10 Acted as an umpire through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
1 Acted as an umpire through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage and the resolution of significant pre-hearing motions.
2 Acted as an umpire through an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.
11 Acted as an umpire through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

Biography

Mr. Hawksworth began his career in June of 1957 at the Continental Casualty Company in Chicago. He progressed rapidly from a desk underwriter to the position of Regional Underwriting manager. In 1970 he was elected an underwriting officer of the CNA /INSURANCE group.

In 1977 he resigned his positions at CNA to join The Mercantile and General Reinsurance Company of America where he held various management positions and in 1987 became the CEO. In 1983, M&G America assumed the direction of Toa-Re/ America the American subsidiary of the Toa Reinsurance Company and also held the positions of Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of that company. He retired from these Companies in 1993.

Shortly thereafter he became the Vice- Chairman of Willis Faber North America, part of the Willis Group. He held this position until he retired again in 1996. Since then he has been deeply involved in consultancy, expert witness and arbitration work. In 1997 he became a certified arbitrator by ARIAS-US and is also listed as a qualified ARIAS-US Umpire.

In his career Mr. Hawksworth has been active in Industry affairs. In 1989 he was elected to the Chairmanship of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA). He was also instrumental in the creation of the Brokers and Reinsurance Markets Association (BRMA) and served as the first Chairman of its Education Committee. He served on the committee for the creation of the Associate in Reinsurance (ARE) designation of the Insurance Institutes and also served as Trustee of the Institutes. In addition he has been a Trustee of the National Association of Insurance Women (NAIW) Education Foundation as well as Trustee of his Alma Mater, Wabash College from which he received the Alumni Award of Merit. Mr. Hawksworth received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Wabash College in 1956 after which he attended the University of Chicago School of Business and pursued post graduate studies.

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