OUR EXPERT TEAM

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Mr. Ceppi has been involved in Liability Management since 1986. Mike’s experience includes audit and analysis of hundreds of claim programs, valued at in excess of$50 billion. His areas of expertise include Mass Tort, Legal Expense Management, Product Liability, Reinsurance, Program, Professional and High Severity claims of all types. He has been very active in the convergence of capital markets and traditional insurance markets and has developed several specialty products in this growing marketplace. Currently, Mike is the Chairman of Edge Risk Services, where he provides consulting services to clients including Corporations, Insurers, Capital Markets and Service providers.

Michael Mrvica is the Managing Director of Edge Risk Services (“Edge”). Prior to joining Edge, Michael spent 10 years working at The Vertex Companies, LLC as an Executive Vice President responsible for the management, operations, strategy and business development of company-wide architectural, engineering, construction and environmental services. He worked closely with a variety of insurance clients, law firms, corporations, individuals, management companies and homeowners’ associations on a wide range of assignments, providing oversight and management from the inception to closure of matters.

Michael also has almost 20 years of experience in environmental, mass tort and property insurance and litigation as a former practicing attorney and then Senior Vice President of the Environmental Casualty Claims Department at AIG. He has managed and handled thousands of claims involving coverage and litigation, responsible for compliance and risk awareness, budget and the resolution of complex matters. Michael reserved and forecasted environmental and mass tort risks during his time at AIG and worked closely with members of various departments (underwriting, actuarial, etc.) to develop claims handling protocols. He also provided support and risk analysis for various divisions.

Michael is a graduate of Lehigh University, received his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall University and is admitted to practice in New Jersey. Michael has also worked as an adjunct college professor, serves on the Executive Board of the East Windsor PAL and is the Director of the East Windsor PAL travel soccer program.

Paul Roach is Managing Director of Edge Risk Services (“Edge”). Prior to joining Edge, Paul was the President of Alan Gray LLC, where he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the legal bill audit team, the claim/operational audit group, the quantitative analytics team and the accounting team. He was instrumental in driving the growth of Alan Gray LLC during his thirty-years with the firm and was a hands on-manager with each of the teams in the company.

Prior to joining Alan Gray, Paul worked in the claims department at Crum & Forster Commercial Insurance for four years and spent an additional three years managing a claim project at a law firm in Boston. Paul has a B.A. in Economics from Providence College, as well as an MBA from Boston University and a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University. He is admitted to practice in the state of Massachusetts.

John Humphreys is the Chief Claim Officer of Sovereign Claims, LLC (“Sovereign”).  He is responsible for the overall management of all claims and for all Claim operations. 

He provides advice and recommendations to insurers relating to coverage and tort issues and provides reserve recommendations and oversees the management of the financial bordereaux that are maintained by Sovereign. John conducts policy and contract review and analysis. He leads the training of all claim handlers in the organization. 

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At Sovereign, John oversees the entire claims administration function across the business and works to provide stakeholders and partners with the most optimal results, as well as the most responsive and cost-effective services possible. He is responsible for identifying and assigning resources to claims and ensuring quality control throughout customer engagement.

John graduated with his Juris Doctorate from St John’s
University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York State Courts and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. 

  Henry Neal Conolly is a construction and casualty specialist for Sovereign Claims, LLC (“Sovereign”). With more than forty years as a practicing attorney, Mr. Conolly focused on business and insurance coverage, defense litigation and regulation. This expertise has prepared him to be an expert witness in insurance policy and contract issues, claims and bad faith, solvency, workers’ compensation regulation, and audit and self-insured programs. Conolly served as an Administrator and Counsel to the NY Insurance Department Superintendent’s receivership for Frontier Insurance Company, a 50 state multi-line carrier, run off with Berkshire (one billion retroactive cover) and with multi-year claims adjustment and reinsurance recovery. He has also served as a Board member and investor for multiple P & C carriers, insurance agencies, MGA’s and MGU’s.