Claims, Planes, & Automobiles: Recent Episodes
Steve Mazefsky
Claims, Planes, and Automobiles is a podcast brought to you by Intrepid Risk Associates. Our intended audience is professionals in all aspects of the Property Casualty Insurance Industry, Claims Executives, Claim Representatives, Attorneys, Brokers, Agents and the entire team of service providers along the supply chain. We will bring relevant dialogue that is meant to be both informative and entertaining to our friends, clients, prospects and service partners and we hope you come along for the ride! Please join us so we can help make your travel time more productive as well as more entertaining! We welcome any and all feedback relative to our shows, so please don't hesitate to contact smazefsky@intrepidrisk.org with any input you may have. You can also visit www.intrepidrisk.org or LinkedIn to learn more about the host company and its leadership.
Please welcome back Christopher Sloan Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority. Chris will talk in detail about the recent Coalition Against Insurance Fraud report that puts the annual cost of insurance fraud at 308.6 Billion dollars annually.
Episode 11 - Chicagoland Alliance for Disabled Owned Businesses
Mark Rusin
Managing partner of Chicago Insurance Defense firm Rusin & Maciorowski / founding member Chicagoland Alliance for Disabled Owned Businesses
Dave Hanson
President of EOA Consulting and Executive Director of Chicagoland Alliance for Disabled Owned Businesses
They are here to talk about raising awareness of disabilities as part of todays diversity and inclusion discussion.
Please join me as I talked to David Nottoli, founder and president of Merge Invesigations. We discuss Dave's origins in the industry, the history of Merge Investigations, SIU, and an ever changing industry landscape.
We decided to turn the tables on Steve and ask him some questions about Intrepid Risk Associates. This discussion is an overview of where Intrepid Risk Associates came from, all the great things they are achieving, and where they are headed.
The topic is Kids Chance of Virginia- the mission of Kids Chance of Virginia (KCVA) is to provide post secondary and trade school scholarships to the children of Virginia workers who have been severely or fatally injured in a workplace accident.
My guests were as follows:
John Burke Senior VP and Chief Claim Officer at BerkleyNet Underwriters-he is also the Chairman of the Board for KCVA.
Dennis Durkin- AVP Business Development at BerkleyNet Underwriters and Board Member KCVA
Minahil Khan-KCVA scholar- Psychology Major at the University of Virginia
Isabelle Craddock-KCVA Scholar Education Counselor Major at Virginia Commonwealth University- Graduate Studies
Graduate of Christopher Newport University- Psychology
Cofounder and Dir. of Business Development we talked about issues such as American Legal Records and History, utilization of third-party record, company trends in litigation support, technological enhancements in the litigation support industry, upcoming enhancements to the American Legal Records platform-
Director of Claims at BerkleyNet Underwriters-we discussed the history of BNU, BNU as a great workplace, BerkleyNet Underwriters as part of the WR Berkley Family,
Alexandra “Ali” Bott is an attorney with Summers, McDonnell, Hudock, Guthrie & Rauch, P.C., and is the head of its Workers’ Compensation Litigation Department. Ms. Bott devotes her practice to representing employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators throughout all aspects of workers’ compensation litigation defense.
In this podcast, Ali and I discuss a typical day in the life of a workers’ compensation defense attorney, including the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on workers’ compensation litigation. We also explore how the utilization of various risk management services can help build a case and promote an effective defense strategy.