Inside the Insurance Industry - Fourth Edition: Insurance Help for Individuals and Businesses - Paperback

Glaser, Kevin L.: - Kevin L. Glaser is president of Risk and Insurance Services Consulting, LLC (RISC), a fee-only property and casualty consulting business located in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He has worked in a wide variety of carrier positions including: Property Adjuster; Field Underwriter; Personal Lines District Manager; Commercial Lines District Manager, Territory Manager and Territorial Business Manager. Glaser has first-hand experience in personal lines, commercial lines, farm lines, working with affluent family accounts, and providing long-term risk management services to the State of Wisconsin as a Risk Management Specialist. Mr. Glaser's responsibilities have included overseeing results for business insurance departments and personal insurance departments, as well as ratemaking and management of underwriters and support staff. In addition, he was a select member of a reinsurance-driven, company-wide consulting project whose mission was to re-engineer the existing internal structure of an insurance company that he worked for. Mr. Glaser has a B.A. from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and has earned several distinguished professional insurance designations including: Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC); Senior Claim Law Associate (SCLA); Associate in Risk Management (ARM); Accredited Advisor in Insurance (AAI); Associate in Claims (AIC); Associate in Risk Management-Public Entities (ARM-P); and Associate in Insurance Services (AIS). He has been quoted in national news publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Hartford Courant relative to insurance issues. Mr. Glaser has provided litigation support services in nearly sixty cases, divided almost evenly between plaintiff and defense attorney cases. He has worked with insurance carrier Error and Omission writers, as well as attorney-focused expert services firms, and has provided long-term risk management services for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mr. Glaser is a national speaker in the areas of insurance and risk management, presenting to diverse groups such as Corporate Casual, a professional association comprising accountants, attorneys, and bankers; The COSBE (Council of Small Business Executives) Group; NAPFA (the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors); MRA (Management Association); SHERM (Society for Human Resource Management); and TEC (The Executive Committee), an international group of CEOs.