FCAS, MAAA, CSPA Senior Consulting Actuary
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Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Auto Insurance Mar 27, 2018
Data Breach at Equifax Sep 26, 2017
Cyber Risk Continues to Grow Apr 18, 2017
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Ms. Maxwell currently serves the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) as a member of the Examination Committee, member of the Cyber Risk Task Force, member of the Working Party on On-Demand Insurance, Chair of the Webinar Committee and Secretary/Treasurer of the Casualty Actuaries of the Bay Area.
Prior to consulting she was a product manager for a direct auto insurer and held actuarial positions with a state insurance department and national rating bureau. Her background includes personal and commercial lines pricing and reserving.
December 2017 APEX Webinar Actuarial Standards of Practice Update Authored by Laura A. Maxwell and John E. Wade.
July 18 2017 APEX Discussion Series ORSA: Has Anything Changed? Authored by Laura A. Maxwell and John E. Wade.
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Competitive Analysis - Commercial Lines
Pinnacle was approached by a major national commercial lines insurer to provide comprehensive competitive analysis of the businessowners policy (BOP) and commercial automobile insurance market places. Pinnacle’s analysis began with a comprehensive review of the products filed by the leading twenty insurers of these products examining coverage features, rating elements, tiering and scoring elements, unique coverage features and several other key product development elements. Following this initial step, Pinnacle performed detailed territory and premium comparisons for several states using a dynamic premium comparison engine that allowed investigation at the class, coverage amount and territory level of detail. The company used a batch rating feature to develop indicated rate level estimates. Mapping features looking at ranking and pricing differences were also produced. All of this information was incorporated into a countrywide overhaul of the company’s products and pricing.
Portfolio Aggregation
A reinsurer wanted to combine the results of their pricing and reserving models for individual treaties - from diverse lines of business and treaty structures - to produce an annual return distribution for the company. This was a part of their ERM framework and the genesis of their economic capital modeling process. After reviewing treaty wordings and pricing and reserving models, we designed a model that reflected dependency amongst the treaties and produced an annual return distribution. Furthermore, the model was designed to allow users of the model output to easily see how sensitive the results were to the assumed dependency structures.
Rate Filing Review
Pinnacle typically provides state regulators expert review of company and bureau rate change filings. In a recent review of a Company’s automobile rate filing Pinnacle was able to confirm that the filed rates met the State’s rating laws and Department’s filing requirements. Using a procedure developed by Pinnacle specifically to review rate filings, the Company filing was reviewed against generally accepted actuarial principles. The Company was questioned on certain rating procedures and was able to support their procedures and selections with additional documentation to the filing. Pinnacle was then able to affirm to the Regulator that the filed rates were not excessive, inadequate, nor unfairly discriminatory and that the new rates would not produce any major policyholder dislocations. The Regulator was then able to acknowledge the Company’s filing with confidence that the Regulator had carried out his charge of providing service and protection both to consumers and to the insurance industry.
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September 19, 2018 INCON
September 23, 2018 SIIA National Educational Conference & Expo