John D. Sullivan
Massachusetts Reinsurance Advisors, LLC
P.O. Box 2149
Brewster, MA, 02631
ph/fax: 508-896-5181
johndennissullivan@verizon.net
John Sullivan has over 35 years experience in the insurance/reinsurance business with an extensive background in treaty underwriting.
Mr. Sullivan began his career in 1972 as an underwriting trainee with the Commercial Union Insurance Company. During this period Mr. Sullivan handled various property and casualty assignments including commercial casualty and personal auto with his last position being Senior Multi-Peril Underwriter. In 1977 John joined the First State Insurance Company as an Excess and Surplus Property Underwriter servicing the New York and Baltimore territories.
Starting as a Treaty Underwriter at New England Reinsurance Corporation in 1978, he progressed through various underwriting positions and in 1989 was elected President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1993 when The Hartford merged all reinsurance operations into HartRe, Mr. Sullivan joined the newly formed organization as President and Chief Operation Officer. His duties included the oversight of property and casualty underwriting operations worldwide including responsibility for the claims operations. He was involved in most aspects of treaty and facultative operations including the setting of underwriting policy and the creation of detailed underwriting guidelines. HartRe wrote a diversified treaty and facultative portfolio with premium volume of $850.0 Million.
Mr. Sullivan is very experienced in most lines of property, casualty, and professional liability including property catastrophe, D&O, program business, Excess & Surplus lines, and non-standard auto, as well as their customs and practices. Mr. Sullivan has also had extensive experience working in the reinsurance broker market and is intimately acquainted with the many issues arising in that environment.
With the sale of the HartRe book in 2003, the in-force Treaty Operations were placed in Run-Off. From 2003-2007 Mr. Sullivan worked in the dispute resolution area within Horizon Management Group, LLC managing the transitional underwriting issues, creating a process for resolving complex issues, and assisting in contract wording analysis and communications. The general types of disputes with which Mr. Sullivan has familiarity include Loss Allocation, Definition of Occurrence, and coverage and premium issues.
Upon his retirement in 2007, Mr. Sullivan founded Massachusetts Reinsurance Advisors, LLC. This company offers arbitrations, expert witness and consulting services to the reinsurance/insurance industry.
Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of The University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. degree in Economics. He also attended the Executive Education Program at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and earned his CPCU designation in 1980.
Mr. Sullivan is an ARIAS-U.S. certified Arbitrator.
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