About Merlinos & Associates, Inc.

Seated / Front Row
(Left to Right) - Mark Brannon, Paul Merlino,
Matt Merlino, Dave Shepherd,
Peter Scourtis Standing / Back Row (Left to Right)
- Tom Vasey, Andrew Kiel, Rosemary Wickham, Ryan Purdy, Kirk Braunius, Michael
Solomon, Rutledge Capers, Bao Vu, Greg Fanoe, Robert Daniel, Sue Buehler,
Derek Chapman, Deb Hamilton
Not Pictured - Meghan Brown, Meg Glenn, Leighton Weese, Leigh Gilbert, Steve White, Brett Miller, Alison Lalla
and Manny Chaudhury
Welcome to Merlinos and Associates, Inc. (M&A). We are a full service, independently owned, property and casualty consulting firm that serves clients
throughout the world. M&A has grown into one of the larger independent property and casualty actuarial consulting firms in the United States. M&A has
one office in Norcross, GA and all services are provided from this location. Currently, our firm employs twenty-two actuarial professionals
plus a business manager. Eleven are members of the Casualty Actuarial Society
(CAS), one is a member of the Society of Actuaries pursuing a CAS designation,
and nine are in pursuit of their CAS credentials. See our
announcements.
Qualifications
- Extensive expertise in virtually all of lines property and casualty
insurance
- Expertise in providing a wide range of actuarial services
- Experience from both the risk-assuming client entity versus regulatory
client perspectives, insurer versus reinsurer perspectives and company
versus consultant perspectives
- Qualified Actuaries – We have nine credentialed actuaries in our
office, which allows sufficient resources to be brought to any engagement
as necessary.
- Peer Review – We have a strong peer review process and exchange
of ideas among the actuaries in the firm, which ensures the highest
quality actuarial product.
Experience
- Reserving
- Pricing
- Underwriting
- Product Management
- Reinsurance
- Catastrophe Modeling
- Database Development and Data Management
- Expert Testimony
- Actuarial Feasibility Studies
- State Insurance Department Financial Examinations
We value the necessity of proper timing and explanation with respect
to the services that we provide. M&A prides itself on being second to none
in the areas of responsiveness, quality and the day-to-day usefulness of
the services and value that we bring to our clients. In addition, our fees
are competitive and reflect our firms low overhead expense structure.
We are industry leaders in value and services provided to our clients. You
will have complete access to the lead actuary/partner on the engagement
at all times. In addition, the lead actuary/partner is fully involved in
the engagement. The quality of our team ensures that our clients’ needs
are addressed by consultants with appropriate expertise in the relevant
areas.
The structure of our firm allows any employee to work on any client’s business
as needed. We make sure that our actuaries’ expertise is not wasted just
because another actuary is the lead consultant. We allocate our resources
to our clients based on what expertise is needed. This reflects our philosophy
that servicing our clients with insightful and timely work takes precedence
over any internal territorial considerations.
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