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“Insurance has been my passion from day one, and it fuels my drive to build a platform that will change the insurance industry for the better”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance
James McNitt serves as the national leader for the Healthcare Practice at Risk Placement Services (RPS), where he oversees the medical professional liability specialty niche. In addition, he manages his own book of business, which is the largest within the practice. McNitt’s focus is on placements for hospitals, long-term care facilities, social services, non-emergency medical transport, allied healthcare and physician groups.
“The healthcare space has continued to trend towards greater complexity and having a subject matter expert is more important than ever,” says McNitt. “With a focus strictly on healthcare, we have developed a higher level of trust for challenging placements, as both our retail clients and underwriters are confident that we understand the insureds’ needs. Not everyone focuses on such a niche area of insurance, but I have chosen this as my field and live and breathe it every day.”
Since McNitt took over as leader of the National Healthcare Practice in 2020, he has brought on additional carrier partners, unified the brokerage team to build best practices and talent development improvements, launched an online product and deepened relationships with retail clients. He is credited with changing the brand of RPS in the healthcare space.
As a broker himself, McNitt has allowed his team to grow because he removed a lot of the hurdles that had previously existed and demonstrated trust in his colleagues’ expertise and abilities. The result is nearly 70% growth in healthcare placements for the national wholesale broker and managing general agent.
Prior to joining RPS, McNitt was a state manager for Allstate Business Insurance. He is an active member of the Chicagoland Healthcare Risk Management Society and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.
McNitt holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and English from the University of Iowa and a master’s degree in marketing and finance from DePaul University.
What are his plans for the future? “My goal is to continue to increase our presence in the healthcare marketplace and to further develop our expertise and reputation as the preeminent healthcare specialists in the wholesale channel,” he says.
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James McNitt
National Healthcare Practice Leader
Risk Placement Services
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Earned a spot in the RPS Bar Club for top producers the first year and maintained growth trajectory to earn a spot every year since
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Earned a master’s degree in marketing and finance from DePaul University
Joined Risk Placement Services as a healthcare broker
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earned Bachelor’s degree in communication studies and English from the University of Iowa
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Excellence awardee – Independent Mortgage Adviser of the Year category at the New Zealand Mortgage Awards
2022
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Currently, Barton is CEO of ALKEME Insurance , one of the nation’s fastest growing insurance acquisition platforms. Barton led a merger and acquisition of seven “founding” entities to form ALKEME in late 2020, in the thick of the pandemic. He took ALKEME to market and secured private equity funding through GCP Capital Partners out of New York. ALKEME had year-over-year revenue growth of well over 100% in 2021 and is on track to double its revenue again in 2022 while maintaining a 13% organic growth clip.
Under Barton’s leadership, ALKEME has also won numerous honors, including being named in the 2021 Top 50 Brokers of Insurance Journal and the 2021 Top 100 Brokerages, Fast Brokerages and Best Places to Work in Insurance of Business Insurance.
“I know it sounds cliché, but I am laser-focused on changing the insurance industry for the better,” he says. “We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part.”
Prior to ALKEME, Barton founded Venture Pacific Insurance, a regional brokerage in southern California that was acquired by ALKEME during the merger. Barton also co-founded Brokkrr, a digital lead generation insurtech platform.
Barton received his BA from the University of Arizona. He has been included in IBA’s Hot 100 list four times in a row. He was also recognized in Vertafore’s Top 25 Disruptors in the insurance industry.
“We are building technology, processes and products that are meeting the needs of a changing world. It is imperative that the insurance industry keeps up with the fast pace of change, and I want to make sure I do my part”
Curtis Barton,
ALKEME Insurance