About Us > Management > Daniel Brennan, RN, MSN; Senior Vice President of Claims

As Senior Vice President of Claims, Dan Brennan has assumed responsibility for consolidating all of GUARD’s claims-related functions into a single department that now encompasses the organization’s various regional and home office operations, including previously separate litigation and managed care units. Specifically, he is in charge of GUARDCo and the Early Intervention Unit (which he helped to create), the Complex Claims Unit, Medical-Only Unit, Third-Party Claim Unit, and other claims lines. In this capacity, he establishes the policies and procedures used to orchestrate the efforts of each group while introducing new forms of automation to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources. Over the past several years, he has been instrumental in developing assistive adjudication technologies used to streamline much of the simpler, repetitive work of the discipline. He is also in charge of implementing the reserving practices and philosophies of the corporate management team.

Dan first joined the organization as a GUARDCo Cooperative Care Administrative Specialist (leaving an established career in the health care field). During this period, he was part of the group that introduced the techniques of managed care to the handling of Workers’ Compensation claims at GUARD. He played an active part in developing relationships with networks of preferred providers and vendors utilized by the company and was involved in researching the legislation in various states to determine guidelines for the direction of care. More recently, Dan served as Vice President of Insurance Operations, which encompassed supervision of GUARD’s Small Business Unit, Premium Audit Department, and many of the claims functions he currently oversees.