Evan D. Bennett

MSA, MEd

Director

Evan Bennett is Director of Blackman Kallick's Reinsurance Consulting Practice. He has over 25 years of experience in the insurance/reinsurance industry and has performed reinsurance audits and reviews, reinsurance contract analysis, statutory audits, and regulatory compliance reviews for a variety of companies. He has also served as an expert witness and consultant on various arbitration and litigation projects throughout his career.

Evan has worked with reinsurers, ceding companies, intermediaries, state insurance departments and law firms. He has been engaged in projects that require expertise in both insurance and reinsurance including the following:

• Reinsurance audits: accounting/financial, underwriting, claims, forensic and operational
• Reinsurance contract analysis and risk transfer reviews
• Statutory audits of insurance companies
• Underwriting and Claims reviews
• Workers' Compensation premium and claim audits in litigation
• Assistance in the development of audit procedures for workers' compensation clients
• Reinsurance system implementation assistance
• Internal control reviews and account reconciliation projects
• Assistance to state insurance departments on examinations and training
• Environmental claims audits and exposure analysis
• Due diligence reviews
• Commutations
• Best practice review for reinsurance administration
• Reinsurance arbitration/litigation support as an expert witness and consultant
• Insurance and reinsurance training and curriculum development

Evan has written several articles on reinsurance issues for industry publications and is a contributing author of the chapter titled "Reinsurance Audits" for the Associate in Reinsurance course textbook, Reinsurance Principles, for the American Institute of CPCUs/Insurance Institute of America, published in 1995. Evan has also conducted reinsurance seminars and programs for more than 23 years and has spoken at various industry conferences throughout his career. These include the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Executive Education-School of Business, the College of Insurance and the Illinois CPA Society.

Evan received his BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences, with honors, and his Master in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He earned his MSA, with honors, in Accounting and Business from Roosevelt University in Chicago.

Evan is a member of the Society of Insurance Financial Management, the International Association of Insurance Receivers, The Roundtable Group (a group of experts from several fields) and an affiliate member of the Illinois CPA Society (the Society). Evan has also served as chairperson of the Society's Insurance Companies Special Interest Group from 2001 to 2006.

Articles by Evan Bennett

• Organizing Reinsurance in Receiverships and Troubled Companies
• Risk-Focused Exams for Reinsurance: What's Going On?

News about Evan Bennett

• Bennett Speaks at Dewey & LaBoeuf Runoff Symposium
• Palm Beach Post Quotes Bennett
• Bennett Moderates a Panel of Reinsurance Experts at the IAIR Reinsurance Workshop
• Bennett Speaks at AIRROC Membership Meeting
• Bennett Speaks at ACS Breakfast Meeting
• Bennett Speaks at Casualty Actuarial Society's Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
• Bennett Joins Panel on International Reinsurance Collections at IAIR's Issues Forum
• Bennet Presents "Reinsurance Audits in Insolvencies - What You Don't Know Will Hurt You"
• Bennett Speaks at IAIR 2010 Insolvency Conference
• Bennett Hosts Webinar: "Reinsurance is the largest asset in a receivership - how not to lose it."