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Consultant and Expert Witness on

Workers Compensation Insurance Premium Audits, Classifications,Experience Modifiers, NCCI manual rules, WCIRB manual rules, NJCRIB rules, other rating bureau manual rules and classifications, Retrospective Rating, Large Deductible policies, and insurance agent/broker professional standards, as well as General Liability insurance premium audits.

Edward J. Priz, CPCU, APA |Forensic Premium Auditor & Consultant

Edward J. Priz, CPCU, APA,  has worked with Workers Compensation insurance since 1978. He has also worked with commercial general liability insurance premiums and audits and other lines of commercial property and liability insurance.

He has served as an insurance broker, consultant, expert witness, and author on a wide variety of issues involving Workers Compensation insurance premiums with employers of all types and sizes, all across the United States. He has also consulted with Workers Compensation insurers, insurance brokers, and independent premium auditors.

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He has also served as both a consulting witness and testifying witness regarding Workers Compensation insurance audits, classifications, experience modification factors, Retrospective Rating, large deductible policies, payroll audits, NCCI manual rules, and insurance agent/broker standards of care, in both federal and state courts, and in legal hearings before state insurance regulators.

He has also served as a consulting witness on several class action lawsuits regarding Workers Compensation insurance overcharges by major insurers.

 He is a member of the Forensic Expert Witness Association,

the National Society of Chartered Property Casualty

 Underwriters and the National Society of Insurance Premium

 Auditors.

He has also consulted on the drafting of legislation pertaining to Workers Compensation insurance in Illinois, and has testified on insurance regulation before the Illinois legislature. He is the author of three books on the subject of Workers' Compensation insurance. His full CV is available here.

Other areas of expertise include NCCI classification rules, experience rating, NCCI rules and procedures, Retrospective Rating, Large Deductible policies, independent Workers Compensation rating bureau classifications and rules, Workers Compensation appeals, insurance agent errors and omissions, insurance auditor duties and errors, and NCCI inspections, as well as Commercial General Liability premiums, classifications, and audits.

Mr. Priz has been retained as an expert witness by both plaintiffs and defendants to consult on matters in litigation, arbitration, and mediation that involve disputes over Workers' Compensation insurance classifications, audits, experience modification factors, commercial insurance coverage, and insurance agent standards of care.

Some recent cases:

Testified at trial regarding New Jersey classification and audit rules for assigned risk policies;

Testified regarding proper NCCI classifications in Florida;

Testified regarding NCCI experience modification factor combination rules regarding Texas Workers Compensation policies;

Testified at trial regarding WCIRB rules regarding experience modification factors, Workers Compensation audits, and proper premium charges under California Workers Compensation insurance policies.

Testified regarding proper Workers Compensation insurance audit charges, classifications, remuneration, and experience modifiers for Iowa Workers Compensation insurance policies;

Mr. Priz has been retained by policyholders, insurance agents and brokers, insurance companies, and a premium audit firm (that performs audits for insurers nationwide) as an expert witness in these fields, both as a consulting expert and as a testifying expert.

Mr. Priz has served as an expert witness in these areas in cases filed in federal and state courts and arbitrations in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Here is a listing of some attorneys Mr. Priz has worked with as an expert witness.

Mr. Priz has worked full-time in the insurance industry since 1976, and in his career has been a licensed insurance agent/broker, been Vice President of a major insurance agency/brokerage in Chicago, and, since 1983, a consultant on Workers Compensation insurance premiums, audits, classifications and related technical matters.

As a consultant, Mr. Priz has worked with clients both large and small throughout the United States regarding proper Workers Compensation audits, premiums, classifications, experience modification factors, and related technical matters. His consulting clients have included Caterpillar, Bridgestone Tire, Walsh Construction, and the San Francisco 49'ers professional football team, as well as numerous companies in manufacturing, construction, health services, non-profits, and the staffing industry.

Mr. Priz has also been retained as an expert by insurance companies and insurance agencies to provide expertise regarding Workers Compensation insurance audits and premium charges.  Mr. Priz has consulted with companies such as Fireman's Fund, Lloyds of London, Zurich American Insurance, Zenith Insurance, Great American Insurance, FCCI Insurance, and others.

Mr. Priz holds the professional designations Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and
Associate in Premium Auditing (APA).

He is a member of the National Society of Insurance Premium Auditors, the National Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, and the Forensic Expert Witness Association.

He has served as a member of the Workers Compensation Committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, and authored chapter 22 of the Illinois Workers Compensation Manual published by the Illinois Chamber of Commerce.

He is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Workers Compensation Insurance, published in 2005 by Entrepreneur Press.

He is also the author of CompControl, published in 1995 (with a revised edition in 2001) by Oasis Press.

His most recent book is Workers Compensation: A Field Guide for Employers, published by BookSurge Publications in 2010.