Partner Firms
Our risk management and human capital services are provided by a partnership of specialized firms that offer a wide array of products and capabilities that produce best-in-class, cost-effective, measurable results. Our partner firms are leaders in their respective fields including alternative risk finance, loss control, claim cost containment, actuarial, cyber risk, insurance archaeology, environmental, executive risk, reputation risk, ERM and more. Scroll down to view partner firm descriptions sorted alphabetically or hover over the company name for primary service area key.
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Partner Firm Descriptions (A-Z)
Actuarial Consulting, Captives & Self-Insurance, Litigation Support
Employee Benefits, Strategic Captive Utilization
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Alternative Risk Finance: Employee Benefits, Strategic Captive Utilization
American Benefits Consulting (ABC) works with employers to reduce the costs associated with their employee benefit programs while attracting and retaining the best employees. ABC has deep expertise in plan design, administration and communication, in addition to underwriting and actuarial science. ABC is a leader in utilizing captives to fund employee benefits and they specialize in helping clients achieve cost efficiencies; design new programs; create favorable financial arrangements with carriers; and understand the impact of strategic recommendations or program changes.
Many Fortune 500 Companies have established captive insurance subsidiaries to manage and reduce the cost of insurance. Current IRS regulations require that a captive maintain a significant amount of unrelated third party premium to realize maximum tax advantages. ABC has substantial experience assisting clients expand the captive’s risk portfolio with certain employee benefit coverages to maximize unrelated third party insurance, thereby maximizing the financial advantage of the captive.
ABC also brings vast experience in captive reinsurance and the structuring and ongoing operation of reinsurance arrangements covering premiums from employee benefit plans. ABC, with its deep expertise in group insurance, voluntary benefits, technology & administration, is ideally positioned to partner with Fortune 500 clients to design and implement benefit plans within the context of their existing alternative risk vehicle(s), allowing for maximum financial benefit to the captive, employees and the parent company.
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Plan Design & Implementation
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Vendor Management
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Plan Administration
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Benefits Communication & Support
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Benefits Technology
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Alternative Risk Finance & Captive Reinsurance
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International/Expat Benefits
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Group Insurance Consulting
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Executive Life & Disability
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Voluntary Benefits
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Loss Control, Environmental, Health & Safety: Environmental Services, Program Design & Loss Control
ARMR.Network, LLC is a specialty wholesale environmental insurance brokerage firm with experience and qualifications in environmental insurance that are unequalled. ARMR professionals are major content contributors to the chapters in the CPCU, ARM and IRMI text books on environmental insurance and are also the major content contributors to the chapter on environmental professional liability loss prevention for the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America. ARMR.Network, LLC personnel have been engaged by the US EPA, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Justice Department, and the World Bank in London as environmental insurance consultants.
No matter how routine or complex the risk, from a single underground storage tank to a merger and acquisition involving tens of millions of dollars in environmental legacy costs, ARMR has the experience and knowledge to help solve any environmental risk management challenge on a global basis. The firm provides corporationas, retail insurance agents and brokers with years of specialized experience and real time knowledge of the environmental insurance market at the home offi􀃥ce level.
There are more than 150 different environmental insurance policy forms available with literally thousands of endorsement options. ARMR's specialized expertise helps clients better protect the enterprise through superior environmental program design and loss control services.
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Environmental Risk Assessment
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Program Design
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Loss Control & Environmental Remediation
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Policy Reviews
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Specialized Insurance Products & Services
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Pollution Liability
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Professional Liability
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Environmental Wrap-Ups
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Expert Witness
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Claims Management: Accelerated Settlement Solutions & Claim Cost Containment, Life Care Planning
Blackburn Group, Inc. is recognized by A.M. Best Company as Recommended Expert Service Providers in the risk, claim, insurance and financial industries. Blackburn has also been recognized in the Risk and Insurance Management Society Buyers Guide for a variety of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Settlement Solutions.
Blackburn Group has over 35 years of experience in every aspect of risk and claim management, serving self-insurers, insurers, reinsurers, brokers, attorneys, captive insurance companies, risk retention groups, actuaries, third party adjusters and nurse case management companies. Additionally, the firm has pioneered the use of technology to simplify the risk management workflow, decrease costs and improve the quality of programs throughout the industry. To support their professional services, Blackburn Group utilizes proprietary RiskPro® technology solutions which include a suite of products and services delivered through applications on secure Internet-based platforms.
Since inception, Blackburn Group’s primary goal has been to provide high quality, low cost ERM and Claim Settlement professional services and products to the worldwide Property, Casualty, Health and Disability Insurance communities. Their suite of products and services include operational ERM Analysis and Benchmarking, Accelerated Settlement Medical Cost Projection Solutions, Legacy and Chronic Claim Solutions, Medicare Set-Aside (MSA), MMSEA Section 111 Mandatory Data Reporting Solutions, Life Care Planning (LCP), Lien Verification Negotiation Solutions, Structured Settlements, Custodial Account Administration, Special Needs Trust Development and associated Financial Planning Solutions.
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Accelerated Claim Settlement Solutions
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Lien Verification & Negotiation Solutions
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Medicare/Medicaid Set Asides (MSA)
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MMSEA Section 111 Mandatory Reporting
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Claim Audit Solutions & Benchmarking
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Expert Witnessing Products & Services
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Claim Settlement Products & Services
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Insurance Underwriting & Program Development
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Specialty Services: Construction Risk Program Design & Compliance, Surety, Wrap-Ups (OCIP/CCIP)
Construction Risk Partners (CRP) is a full service surety and insurance brokerage dedicated to the construction industry. The firm is a privately held, first generation company that takes great pride in its ability to help clients achieve extraordinary results. It is CRP's reputation in the marketplace that sets them apart. The firm has amassed tremendous construction insurance, surety and risk management expertise and currently represents many construction companies operating throughout the United States, South America, Canada, and other parts of the world.
CRP takes pride in the boutique nature in which they service clients, ensuring that a partner in the firm is involved in all major activities. This level of experienced, professional, personal service differentiates CRP and ensures that clients have the programs and knowledge that make them more competitive in their marketplace.
In the constantly changing economic landscape, companies are perpetually challenged to keep up with their competitors. CRP believes that the combination of their position and influence in the marketplace and a profound understanding of their clients' business facilitate relationships that produce better answers and differentiating results.
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Construction Risk Program Design & Compliance
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Loss Control & Claims Management
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Insurance Policy Servicing & Audit
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Wrap-Ups (OCIP/CCIP)
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Surety & Subcontractor Default (SDI)
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Alternative Risk Finance & Reinsurance Strategies
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Specialty Services: Insurance Archaeology, Historic Insurance Program Assessment & Reconstruction
Since 1985, IAG has documented hundreds of billions of dollars of prepaid insurance assets, enabling clients to maximize recoveries for environmental, toxic tort and a variety of other long tail liabilities. Decades of mergers and acquisition activity combined with a steady onslaught of emerging liabilities and heightened environmental law enforcement have ensured that insurance archaeology – now more than ever – is a best practice for risk management. Over the past 25 years, IAG has developed many of the techniques and protocols which have become the standards for conducting an historic audit of a company’s past coverage.
In reconstructing a coverage history, IAG staff digs exhaustively through corporate records, tracks down and interviews former employees and identifies a variety of leads to potential outside sources of records. This forensic research, in conjunction with IAG's knowledge of underwriting practices, familiarity with the the history of consolidation within the insurance industry and their extensive longstanding contacts, ensure that the most assets are located.
A broad range of organizations rely on IAG’s services. They represent all industry sectors from basic manufacturing to financial services and include Fortune 500 companies, small to mid-size companies, utilities, government agencies, religious/non-profit organizations and municipalities.
Historic Insurance Audit
Current business conditions have heightened the difficulty of conducting an historic insurance audit. IAG has adapted its research efforts accordingly. While the task is more challenging than ever, the massive expansion of information available on the Internet coupled with enhanced data-mining techniques have improved the ability to track down missing coverage.
Historic Insurance Portfolio
Once a coverage chart is complete, it is not unusual for the total cumulative policy limits to exceed $1 billion. The graphic illustration of a total portfolio of historic insurance assets can dramatically convey the magnitude of a potential recovery to senior management and ultimately save thousands of hours of staff time in negotiations with insurers.
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Alternative Risk Finance: Captive Feasibility, Management and Strategic Utilization
JLT Towner is an independent, full-service captive insurance management and consulting company with a multi-domicile reach. They provide clients with alternative risk solutions that meet their diverse needs. JLT Towner's client roster includes single parent captives, group captives and risk retention groups operating from all the major U.S. and international domiciles.
With captive management operations headquartered in Vermont and consulting services based in New York, JLT Towner is ideally situated to help companies wishing to establish or maintain U.S. domiciles and their capabilities also include working with clients to establish or manage captives in non-US domiciles.
Whether forming a captive for the first time or running an existing captive, depend on JLT Towner for a customized approach that meets your unique risk financing challenges. JLT Towner offers the independent, innovative services captives and risk retention groups depend upon to adapt to a constantly changing risk environment. JLT Towner offers flexible and comprehensive solutions, not a cookie-cutter approach.
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Feasibility studies
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Start-up expertise
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Domicile licensing
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Multi-domicile experience and global partnerships
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Regulatory compliance and reporting
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Unrivaled regulatory understanding
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Experience with and access to reinsurance
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Secure, automated, computerized backup and file-saving
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Online broadband capabilities and remote information retrieval
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Comprehensive administrative services
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