Staffing

Any number of staffing situations can have an impact on your business. Prevailing economic conditions can affect liability forecasting. Payroll projections can be volatile for your company as a whole or regionally. Business can shift between different industries, such as from light-industrial to clerical.

Your marketing philosophy during times of economic distress also affects the levels of risk you may experience. Some companies are cognizant of risk factors with expansion and do so methodologically, without much change to their loss experience. Other entities may seek to expand their business and will take on riskier initiatives. It’s important to adjust forecasting methodology based on these philosophies.

Our clients are among the leaders of the staffing industry, and we’re experts in analyzing each program’s unique characteristics — from single parent captive liabilities to large self-insured retention liabilities. We blend information such as third-party administrator, broker or an aggressive risk control program characteristics to customize expert solutions that address your specific challenges.

At Pinnacle, we build a model specific to your unique situation and provide further analysis to evaluate collateral, analyze company-level loss development, project future cash flow, recommend funding levels for future negotiations with insurance companies, and more. When you partner with Pinnacle, you gain the leading edge expertise, superior communication, extraordinary customer service and insight you need to achieve your goals.

Staffing Experts

Joseph A. Herbers

Robert J. Walling III

Derek W. Freihaut

Timothy C. Mosler

Erich A. Brandt

Darcie R. Truttmann

Jordan R. Paszek

Staffing Services

Benchmarking

Pinnacle strives to construct benchmarks for any analysis — whether ratemaking, loss reserving or some other use — as closely as possible to replicating the nature of the underlying data being reviewed.
Collateral Negotiations

Pinnacle provides loss reserve analyses and other diagnostics in support of collateral negotiations associated with deductible and/or self-insured retentions.
Cost Allocations

Pinnacle is experienced in developing cost allocation mechanisms by member or department in the most equitable manner, using elements such as exposure, geographic cost differences and actual loss experience.
Discounting

Management sometimes wishes to reflect the time value of money in funding projections, accruals for unpaid claims liabilities and other valuations. The two most important parameters for doing so are the assumed interest rate and the underlying claim payment pattern. Assessing reasonable values for these parameters is not trivial, as the interest rate may need an adjustment for risk, while the claim payment pattern may not be readily available.
Alternative Risk Transfer Program Design

Pinnacle helps alternative market risk owners, captive managers and service providers determine risk retentions that optimize the balance between the cost of risk transfer and loss volatility.

Staffing Solutions

Alternative Markets

Whether it's a captive insurance company, large deductible program, self-insured entity, public entity pool or syndicate, an alternative market entity is a risk retention program outside the traditional commercial property/casualty market. By virtue of the growth in the alternative markets for more than 30 years, the premium volume outside the mainstream markets is now greater than that written by the traditional markets.

Who We Serve in Staffing

Accountants and Advisors

Our expertise in providing audit support includes traditional insurance companies, reinsurers, risk retention groups and a wide variety of captive insurance companies. We are regularly called on to provide audit support for insurance, alternative markets and self-insurance operations.

Captive Managers

Pinnacle has expertise in many lines of coverage, alternative risk transfer structures, regulatory jurisdictions and industry niches. Our team of experienced consultants understand the needs of captive managers, and bring local knowledge unique to individual market segments.

Insurers

Whether you need to develop an enterprise risk management program, identify best practices for your industry or procure expert insight and analysis for a broad range of projects, our team of experts is focused on doing whatever it takes to exceed your expectations, time and time again.

Regulators

Pinnacle provides a variety of services to insurance regulators. Services include financial exams including risk-focused examinations, rate filing reviews and model reviews. Pinnacle has also assisted regulators with captive applications reviews, training, and legislative costing.

Government Insurers

We have specific expertise in programs that protect the public welfare, such as petroleum storage tank pollution coverage or programs for infants with birth-related injuries.