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About Us > Management > Allan Kerin, FCAS, MAAA; Chief
Actuary and Executive Vice President
Allan brings over 25 years of experience to his responsibilities as
Chief Actuary and Executive Vice President. His responsibilities
include overseeing GUARD’s Actuarial, State Filings, and Technical
Analysis units. Via his role managing these departments, Allan is
responsible for gathering and analyzing data that forms the
foundation upon which our strategic plans and new products are
built. He plays a lead role in establishing rates, defining pricing
philosophy in relation to underwriting guidelines, evaluating
liabilities, setting reserves, and interacting with reinsurers,
rating organizations, and other business partners. Allan is
instrumental in implementing GUARD’s long-term business plan, which
includes broadening our commercial insurance specialty with
additional lines of coverage.
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Prior to joining GUARD in 2007, Allan held a variety of actuarial
positions. Most recently, Allan served as Vice President and Senior
Pricing Actuary for Arch Insurance Group in New York. In this
capacity, he was Actuary for the Executive Insurance Division, which
writes over $150 million a year in premium for directors’ and
officers’ liability insurance and related coverages. He also was
responsible for coordinating and setting standards and procedures
for rate and rules filings for all lines of insurance; was involved
in numerous modeling projects related to both pricing and loss
analysis; and participated in the organization's strategic planning
process. Before joining Arch, Allan worked at Insurance Services
Office (ISO), Inc. from 1981 to 2003 in positions of steadily
increasing responsibility and scope. Between 1990 and 1997, he
served as a Manager in the Actuarial Development Department and the
Personal Lines Actuarial Division. From 1997 to 2003, he was
Assistant Vice President in charge of the Increased Limits and
Rating Plans Division.
Allan is an alumnus of the State University of New York at Stony
Brook where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics
and a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics. He is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS)
and has served on numerous CAS committees and task forces. He is a
member of the American Academy of Actuaries and the NCCI
Retrospective Rating Plan Working Group, and he served on the ISO
Commercial Casualty Actuarial Panel. Allan co-authored a paper
published in the CAS Forum on the effect of tort reform legislation
on expected liability insurance losses.
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