Hayden Burrus, Principal and Actuary |

Hayden Burrus, Principal and Actuary

Founder and Principal Actuary of casualty actuarial consulting practice.
Consulting project leader for all clients. Some more recent assignments include:
- Rate filing preparation in multiple state jurisdictions.
- Completion of regulatory forms related to excess profit calculations for an insurance company.
- Reserving support for long-term workers’ compensation disability claims.
- Retained Chief Actuary services for a growing workers’ compensation insurer.
- Actuarial valuations, pricing, reserve calculations and cash flow projections for self insured entities.
- Expert preparation for appeal of NCCI rulings on experience rating modification factor process.
- Workers compensation premium calculations for a premium dispute between insurer and insured.
Expert witness support for actuarial issues including
- Analysis of uninsured motorist rates for actuarial soundness.
- Actuarial valuations of commissions due from an insurance company.
- Review of reserving workpapers in an actuarial malpractice case.
- Opinion relating to the determination of actuarially sound insurance rates filed with a state insurance department.

Management of rate calculations and filings nationwide; responsibility for securing regulatory approval for AmCOMP rate filings.
Management of pricing, calculations, analysis, and state rate filings for all retrospectively rated policies.
Management of pricing, profitability analysis, and state rate filings for all deductible programs.
Development and implementation of a pricing tool used by all field underwriters nationally. This pricing tool calculated the appropriate premium to charge based on state specific profit targets.
Detailed analysis of the company’s reinsurance program and attachment point, and annual recommendations of the fair cost and appropriate attachment point for the company’s excess reinsurance program.
Annual reserve estimate for reinsurance claims in for each reinsurance policy in the corporate reinsurance program.
Risk transfer analyses for historic reinsurance policies; building of a deposit accounting model for the Finance Department.
Preparations of actuarial portion of SEC Filings prior to AmCOMP’s IPO in 2006.
Over 100 workers’ compensation rate filings in approximately 20 jurisdictions. All rate filings prepared by my department were approved by the appropriate state insurance regulators.
Preparation and support for investor conference calls and Board of Directors meetings.

Determination of state specific retrospective premium for insurance companies involved in a litigation dispute.
Provided day to day management of consulting services for several of ISO’s consulting clients. Some more notable assignments include:
Assessment of expected losses (in aggregate and by reinsurance layer) for a series of reinsurance contracts involved in a litigation dispute.
Determination of outstanding workers compensation liabilities and required assessment rate for a state workers compensation fund.
Stochastic simulations of ultimate claim costs for a large Professional Employee Organization (PEO).
Actuarial Opinion work for a Florida domestic insurer.

Provided actuarial support of rating organization functions.
Trained actuarial and non-actuarial staff regarding traditional workers’ compensation ratemaking procedures used in NCCI rate filings including the use of Experience Rating (E-mods) Retrospective Rating, and Classification Codes.
Prepared and gained approval for IDR’s premium rate/loss cost filings.
Provided actuarial support of IDR’s statistical agent functions including support related to the development of software that calculates the E-mods based on all filed rating factors in the state.
Provided expert business analysis to Florida Department of Insurance meetings regarding implementation of rules, regulations, and guidelines related to the existence of multiple workers’ compensation rating organizations and statistical agents in the state of Florida.
Created IDR’s Workers Compensation Retrospective Rating Manual.

Primary business consultant for the Aggregate RateMaking Software System (ARMS) developed for the actuarial department. This system was the first fully automated workers’ compensation premium and rate level calculation tool prepared by NCCI. ARMS is a proprietary NCCI computer software product that calculates the fair workers’ compensation rate level in each state based on the totality of all loss and premium experience occurring in that state. ARMS was used as the basis for numerous workers’ compensation rate and loss cost filings prepared and filed by NCCI throughout the nation. The foundation of ARMS continues to be used by NCCI to this day.
Preparations of workers’ compensation rate / loss cost filings
Correspondence with various State Insurance Departments regarding workers’ compensation rate / loss cost filings

Provided significant actuarial analysis and support work for the Claims Analysis Research Unit under the direction of distinguished research actuaries.

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York;

Bachelors degree – Applied Mathematics;

ARIAS-US Intensive Arbitrator Training Workshop;

ARIAS-US “Power of Discovery” Training Workshop.

Florida Association of Self Insurers Annual Meeting, 2010 – Actuarial Reviews – Doing Your Part to Get Better Results.
Numerous presentations to state insurance regulators, agents advisory boards, reinsurance brokers as Chief Actuary of AmCOMP.
Numerous presentations to public and privately held companies, municipalities, insurance companies, and non-profit organizations as an actuarial consultant.
Numerous presentations to attorneys on a variety of insurance cases as an actuarial consultant.
Numerous presentations to the actuarial community through his work as President of Casualty Actuaries of the Southeast, and his presentation at the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Annual Meeting in 2005.