Actuarial Firm Announces Collateral Survey

Brokers, Risk Management Professionals Invited to Share Experience and Opinions

BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- As fallout from the credit crisis continues, a Nashville-area actuarial firm is conducting a survey of professionals currently involved in collateral issues related to self-funded workers compensation liabilities.

SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group invites insurance brokers, risk management consultants, and risk management staff of self-funded concerns to participate in the survey, which will be open through the month of October.

The goal of the survey is to assess, on a national basis, trends in collateral negotiations, exposures, reviews, arbitration, litigation, and other factors that SIGMA has seen with its own clients this year. SIGMA's Michelle Bradley reported on these trends in the WorkCompEdge blog article "A 2009 Collateral Perspective." Bradley is also the co-author, with SIGMA's Lloyd Kelley, of two other papers on collateral published by IRMI.

The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and is available at http://www.SIGMAActuary.com/collateral. 

About the Company

SIGMA Actuarial Consulting Group, Inc. (http://www.SIGMAactuary.com) is a casualty actuarial consulting firm located near Nashville, Tennessee. Specializing in workers compensation, professional liability, automobile liability, general liability and products liability, SIGMA also supports its affiliate, Specific Software Solutions, in the development of ModMaster, Loss Forecaster, WorkCompEdge and other software products for risk management and insurance professionals. Read the companies' award-winning blog at http://www.workcompedgeblog.com..