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Paul Braithwaite

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Experience

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Current Employment

Company:

FTI Consulting
Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Senior Managing Director, Practice Co-Leader
Global Insurance Services
Address:

3 Times Square, 9th Floor
New York, NEW YORK 10036
Phone:

212-499-3659
Fax:

212-841-9350
Email:

Paul.Braithwaite@fticonsulting.com
Website:

www.fticonsulting.com

Offering Services as Expert Witness in:

Automobile Underwriting, Automobile Warranty Underwriting, Casualty Underwriting, Directors and Officers Liability Underwriting, Excess of Loss Reinsurance Agreements, Facultative Certificates, Fidelity/Surety Underwriting, Liability Underwriting, Medical Malpractice Underwriting, Professional Liability Underwriting, Pro Rata / Quota Share Reinsurance Agreements, Reinsurance Underwriting, Workers Comp Underwriting, Accident and Health Claims, Asbestos Claims, Directors Officers Liability Claims, Errors and Omissions Claims, Fidelity/Surety Claims, Health Hazard Claims, Medical Malpractice Claims, Pollution Claims, Professional Liability Claims, Surety Claims, Reinsurance Claims, Toxic Tort Claims, Workers Compensation Claims, Accounting, Actuarial, Audit / Records Inspection, Captives, Commutations, Coverage / Contract Interpretation, Financial Guarantees, Finite / Financial Reinsurance / Alternative Risk, Fronting Arrangements, Industry Loss Warranties, Insolvencies, Life Reinsurance, Mortgage Reinsurance, Reinsurance Contract Wording, Surplus Relief Contracts

Previous Employment

Company:

Navigant Consulting (2005-2009)
Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Managing Director,
Insurance Services Practice

Company:

Zurich Reinsurance (also known as ZRC and Converium Re) - 1993-2004
Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Senior Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer, with global responsibility for several specialty lines of business. Previously served as Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President – Pricing.

Company:

Home Insurance Company – 1987-93
Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Assistant to the Chairman; Vice President with responsibility for the Actuarial Department; Vice President, Underwriting — New Ventures. Involved in purchases of reinsurance contracts and sale of USI Re.

Company:

Insurance Services Office, Inc. – 1977-87
Position(s) and Responsibilities:

Vice President responsible for the Actuarial Development Department, a unit of 50+ actuaries that developed industry financial studies, econometric models, rating factors for large policy limits of coverage and a variety of other special studies.

Credentials

Attorney:

No
Education:
B.S. Applied Mathematics, Brown University
M.B.A. Finance, New York University

Designations:

Fellow, Casualty Actuarial Society

Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Member, International Actuarial Association

Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society

Other Information:

President of the Casualty Actuarial Society, 2005

Chairman, Casualty Actuarial Society Board of Directors, 2006

Member, International Actuarial Association Reinsurance Subcommittee, 2004-2014; Vice-Chair 2011-2013

Member, International Actuarial Association Enterprise and Financial Risks Committee, 2006-present

Member, Actuarial Standards Board General Committee, 2011-2014

Frequent speaker and published author

Co-authored "Pricing Extra-Contractual Obligations and Excess of Policy Limits Exposures in Clash Reinsurance Treaties", CAS Forum, 1997

Experienced expert witness in insurance and reinsurance disputes

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Work Experience

Insurance Company: 6 years.
Underwriting Department: 1 year. Vice President - New Ventures

Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 5 years. Vice President - Actuarial; Assistant to the Chairman
Reinsurance Company: 11 years.
Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 5 years. Chief Underwriting Officer, Chief Actuary

Actuarial Department: 6 years. Senior Vice President - Pricing
Insurance-related Firms: 20 years.
Consultant: 10 years. Entry level to Vice President at Insurance Services Office, Inc. , Actuarial

Consultant: 4 years. Managing DIrector , Insurance/Reinsurance Practice

Consultant: 6 years. Senior Managing Director , Global Insurance Services

Breakdown of Experience

Workers' Compensation

8%
Professional Liability/Errors &, Omissions

8%
Asbestos

8%
Finite

8%
Directors &, Officers

5%
Product Liability

5%
Accident & Health

5%
Environmental/Pollution

4%
Personal Lines

4%
MGA/MGU

4%
Automobile Liability/Property

4%
Agricultural

4%
Bad Faith/ECO

3%
Toxic Tort

3%
Excess/Surplus Lines

3%
Fidelity &, Surety

3%
Commutations

3%
Employment Practices Liability

2%
Catastrophes (Casualty)

2%
Contract Wording

2%
Financial Guarantee

2%
Alternative/Self-Insurance/Risk Management

2%
Captives/Risk Retention Groups

2%
Catastrophes (Property)

2%
Insolvencies

1%
Third Party Administrator

1%
Regulatory/Licensing

1%
Architects &, Engineers

1%

By Market

U.S. Market:

85%
U.K. Market:

6%
Bermuda/Off-shore Market:

5%
European Market:

2%
Global Market:

2%

Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 50/50%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 95/5%

ARIAS Experience

Workshops, as Trainee: 1; March 2007

Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; April 2010

ARIAS Conference Faculty: 1; Spring 2017

Arbitration Experience

Number of Arbitrations

As an Arbitrator: 2

As an Umpire: 1

Arbitrator Experience

Number of Arbitrations

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

Acted as an umpire through to final award after completion of an evidentiary hearing of at least one full day and less than three full days regarding the substantive merits of the parties' dispute.

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