Robert Meyer

FCAS, MAAA

Principal & Consulting Actuary

New York, NY, US

Bob Meyer is a principal and consulting actuary in Milliman's New York office. He served as the firm's global casualty practice director and board member from 2009-2015. He joined the firm in 1987.

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Experience

Bob has significant experience on a wide range of property and casualty consulting projects. His areas of expertise include pricing, loss reserving, and financial modeling for multi-national insurers, specialty insurers, reinsurers, and self-insurers. He has been the lead consultant on many large, firm-wide client assignments often involving multiple lines of business, currencies, and languages. Bob has particular expertise in understanding the cost drivers associated with state workers' compensation systems throughout the United States and has specific expertise on the issues surrounding New York, Florida, Texas, and California. Bob's involvement in the worker's compensation self-insurance market includes pricing and loss reserving for school boards, municipalities, the heating industry, the home healthcare industry, and the construction industry. Bob often leads Milliman's efforts as project manager on loss reserving and due diligence financing transactions for multinational insurers operating throughout North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. This also includes major reinsurance companies operating in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, London, and European markets. Bob also assists clients in their efforts to form property and casualty insurance companies, providing advice on loss reserving, reserve variability, capital considerations, rate structures, and reinsurance programs.

Publications and Presentations

Bob is often asked to speak at industry-sponsored seminars on topics involving loss reserving for reinsurers and workers' compensation issues, as well as before state insurance departments, workers' compensation boards and commissions, employer groups, his actuarial colleagues, and the investment community.

Professional Designations

Fellow, Casualty Actuarial Society
Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Education

BS, Applied Mathematics, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Affiliations

Moderator and panelist at CAS-sponsored meetings in the United States and Canada, and Past Member, CAS examination committee

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Publications

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Excessive heat in North Carolina: Impacts on workers compensation costs and healthcare services utilization and claims

27 June 2023 - by Garrett Bradford, Robert Meyer, Joanne Buckle, Phil Borba, Sheryl Hou, Rong Yi, Kailey Adams

NRDC recently engaged Milliman to study the relationship between workers compensation costs, healthcare services utilization, and excessive heat in North Carolina, a state with no workplace heat standards.

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Considerations for predictive modeling in insurance applications

25 June 2019 - by Eileen S. Burns, Anders Larson, Robert Meyer, Zohair Motiwalla, Guy Yollin

What are the best ways to implement predictive modeling into relevant areas of actuarial practice?

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Keep the best: Predictive analytics and profitability

02 January 2012 - by Robert Meyer

Predictive analytics allow insurers to review profitability on an individual customer level.

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Breaking the gridlock

01 July 2007 - by Robert K. Briscoe, Robert Meyer

With low weekly benefits and workers' compensation claims frequency declining nationwide for five or more years, why have employer costs in New York been so high?

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Read their latest work

Excessive heat in North Carolina: Impacts on workers compensation costs and healthcare services utilization and claims

Considerations for predictive modeling in insurance applications

Keep the best: Predictive analytics and profitability

Breaking the gridlock

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