Rosemary Gabriel Wickham, Consulting Actuary, FCAS, MAAA
Principal
- 678.684.4844 Direct
- 770.453.9776 Fax
- rwickham@merlinosinc.com
Rosemary Wickham has sixteen years of casualty actuarial experience, primarily as a consultant. She graduated magna cum laude from Appalachian State University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and a concentration in Actuarial Sciences. Rosemary is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
Experience:
- Assistance on the development of rates structures and rates for captives, risk retention groups, insurance agencies and self-insurance trusts.
- Assistance on the evaluation of self-insured funding levels
- Preparation of feasibility studies and financial projections for captives, self-insurance trusts, and insurance companies
- Assistance on actuarial reports and statements of opinion for various insurance companies and self-insureds, including preparation and maintenance of spreadsheets and databases, monitoring of monthly or quarterly IBNR
- Financial examination assistance for state insurance departments (Lead Consultant overseeing the examination procedures, assistance to other consultants, and providing peer review). Examination issues include review of reserve indications, reconciliation of actuarial data to Schedule P, compliance with NAIC annual statement instructions, analysis and interpretation of reinsurance contracts, and review of company pooling and association agreements (business reviewed includes all lines of property and casualty insurance and HMOs).
- Assistance on preparation of Schedule P for an insurance company’s Statutory Annual Statement. Involvement includes reconciliation of general ledger to company database and to the actuarial report, and assistance to the client’s independent auditors
- Organized and created queries in a claim database and assisted on actuarial projections used in professional testimony related to a liquidated self-insurance fund. Ongoing assistance includes quarterly updates of claim activity in the Fund’s database and quarterly billing of the specific excess reinsurance
- Assistance on competitive rate analyses: private passenger automobile, homeowners, and business owners programs
- Assistance on the review of rate filings for state insurance departments (issues reviewed include compliance with state insurance regulations, review of actuarial support and actuarial judgment used in rate indications, and review of calculations
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