ACAS, MAAA, CERA Managing Principal
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2021: Year of the Employee Dec 30, 2021
Changing Hearts and Minds Jun 28, 2021
Looking Back and Moving Forward Dec 30, 2019
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Joe Herbers is Pinnacle’s managing principal with more than 35 years of consulting experience. His practice is concentrated in providing loss reserving and funding studies for a wide variety of entities – both traditional insurance companies and alternative market entities. Joe’s areas of focus include policyholder-owned group captives, large deductible and/or self-insured entities and public entity pools.
His skill set includes loss reserving for all lines of business, hands-on interaction with alternative market entities, networking with service providers and traditional ratemaking for all types of property/casualty insurance exposure. Joe serves on the Employers Advisory Committee of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and was a long-term member and chair on the American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) Committee on Property Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR). He is a regular speaker at industry events.
September 2020 APEX Webinar Group Captives 101 Authored by Joseph A. Herbers.
January 2020 APEX Statements of Actuarial Opinion at Year-End 2019 Authored by Joseph A. Herbers and Aaron N. Hillebrandt.
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Contractor's Liability
Pinnacle was asked to provide a legislative costing analysis and expert testimony regarding proposed legislation that would substantially expand coverage for construction defects in Oregon. Pinnacle’s study and testimony focused not only on the current conditions of the contractors’ liability insurance market compared to other states, but also the historical changes seen when other states made similar changes. Our analysis also focused on the relationship between home warranties and commercial general liability insurance policies and how these risk mitigation techniques differ over time after a home is completed.
Liquidation - Workers Compensation
Pinnacle was retained by the liquidator of a monoline workers' compensation carrier to estimate outstanding liabilities and provide expert testimony in support of the loss reserve estimation.
Low Cost Auto
Pinnacle was retained by an industry trade organization to provide an independent review of the proposed costing of a new private passenger auto insurance program for low income insureds. The project included working in an open session with legislators and public members to arrive at a workable rate and classification plan for the new program.
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July 17, 2022 Farm Bureau Actuarial Conference
July 21, 2022 July APEX Webinar - Causes of Recent Adverse Development