Kevin L. Glaser, CPCU, CIC, SCLA, ARM, AAI, AIC, ARM-P, AIS

Kevin L. Glaser is president of Risk & Insurance Services Consulting, LLC, a fee-only property and casualty consulting business located in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Mr. Glaser began his insurance career with American Family Mutual Insurance Group first as a Property Adjustor, and later as a field underwriter, handling both personal lines and farm lines. Mr. Glaser then joined Fireman's Fund to underwrite high-value homes, umbrella policies, inland marine and automobiles of the affluent.

While at Tower, the company experienced both ownership and name changes. Tower was owned by Guardian Royal Exchange, a world-wide financial services conglomerate and became known as GRE America, and later, as GRE Insurance Group. Upon purchase of another insurance company, GRE was renamed Indiana Insurance Company, and eventually became a member of the Fortune 500 Liberty Mutual Group. Mr. Glaser's responsibilities have included overall results for business insurance departments and personal insurance departments, as well as rate-making and management of underwriters and support staff. In addition, Mr. Glaser was a select member of an American Reinsurance driven, company-wide consulting project whose mission was to re-engineer GRE's existing internal company structure.

Author of Inside the Insurance Industry and Personal Lines Challenges in the Affluent Marketplace, Mr. Glaser has a B.A. from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and has earned several distinguished professional insurance designations including: Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC); Associate in Risk Management (ARM); Accredited Advisor in Insurance (AAI); Associate in Insurance Services (AIS); Associate in Risk Management - Public Entities (ARM-P); Associate in Claims (AIC); and the Senior Claim Law Associate (SCLA), comprised of Legal Principles Claim Specialist (LPCS), Property Claim Law Associate (PCLA), Casualty Claim Law Associate (CCLA) and Automobile Claim Law Associate (ACLA) designations. Mr. Glaser has been quoted in national news publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), and The Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI), relative to insurance issues.

Mr. Glaser is a member of The TASA Group, Inc. (Technical Advisory Services for Attorneys) and SEAK, Inc. and provides litigation support services in the areas of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, including: insurance policy review; coverage interpretations; assistance with pre-discovery strategies; review of denied claims to determine whether coverage might exist; detailed research; trial testimony and providing "second opinions" by reviewing key legal focus areas and to identify additional areas that may have been overlooked.

He is also a Faculty Member of the nationally-recognized National Alliance For Insurance Education & Research (sponsor of Society of Certified Insurance Counselors courses), and is approved to teach sixteen hours of business insurance material, including "Commercial Property Coverages," "Commercial Property Causes of Loss Forms," "Commercial Property Endorsements" "Commercial Inland Marine," "Case Studies," and "Business Owners Policy" courses throughout the United States. Additionally, Glaser has taught insurance-related courses for the business school of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, which is ranked among the top 50 business schools in the USA, and has provided long-term risk management services for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Community involvement has included multiple terms as Board of Directors member and President of the Oconomowoc Area Chamber of Commerce, and leadership roles as President and Trustee of the local branch of a national non-profit organization. Mr. Glaser is former President of the Nebraska Underwriters Association and former Vice-President of the Business Advisors Network (business-to-business chapter). He has been an officer of the Oconomowoc Toastmasters Club and has been associated with the Executive Resources Group, a group of experienced business service providers who specialize in providing solutions to public and private sector companies.

Mr. Glaser is a national speaker in the areas of insurance and risk management, presenting to diverse groups such as Corporate Casual and The COSBE Group, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), the Wisconsin State Council of the Society For Human Resource Management (SHRM),The Management Association (MRA), and The Executive Committee (TEC), an international group of CEOs.