EW #548 JD is currently the principal of , Insurance Broker. For the past 20 years, hehas actively been involved in many activities including underwriting, adjustment of professional liability claims, and claims-made insurance policies.

Hehas lectured extensively on professional liability loss control, and authored over 30 articles in trade journals and periodicals. He is the author of BROKER BEWARE, Selling Real Estate within the Law. This book provides a loss control program for realtors. He is the designer of a program to conduct on site pre-underwriting risk management assessments of a clients' professional liability exposures on behalf of Insurance Producers, Real Estate professionals and Lawyers. He is the Senior Technical Advisor for The Professional Liability Manual, published by the International Risk Management Institute. This manual is required reading by candidates for the RPLU professional designation sponsored by The Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS).

He is a member of the PLUS Southern California Steering Committee, and the PLUS Peer Review Committee, responsible for overseeing course material for the Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (RPLU) designation. In 1993, he was elected to the PLUS Board of Trustees and in 1994 and 1995, he was elected Secretary-Treasurer and is a member of the Executive Committee. He served PLUS as Vice President in 1997 and was elected President of the Society in 1998. PLUS currently has over 3,000 members worldwide. He previously served as a member of the PLUS Education Committee, and was Co-Chair of the National Membership Committee. He testifies regularly as an expert witness in cases dealing with the duties and obligations of professionals, as well as coverage and claims-made issues.

RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICE:
As part of our Service, we offer to all of our clients Value Added Assistance in the form of consultation and advice on any coverage, claim or insurance related question you may have. The purpose is to provide Risk Management advice to prevent mistakes from being made that could lead to costly E & O Claims. No other Broker provides this extra service to assist their clients. Our philosophy is to do more than simply put a buyer and market together. We are committed to a total E & O service program.