Headquarters:
2222 Merit Drive, Suite 1560, Dallas, TX 75251
Year founded:
2009
Number of employees:
16
Phone:
214 453 2964
Email:
jenny.lopezrogina@specialtycompins.com
Website:
specialtycompins.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/specialty-comp-insurance-solutions
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Steve Math
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mike Beck
SVP, Chief Field Underwriting Officer
Matthew Feury
Vice President, Underwriting
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Steve Math joined Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, and has served in executive-level positions in both underwriting and actuarial areas over an insurance career that spans more than 35 years. Prior to joining Specialty Comp, he served as senior vice president of underwriting and field operations with Texas Mutual Insurance Company, the leading provider of workers’ compensation in Texas. At Texas Mutual, he was responsible for all underwriting, actuarial, and agency-related operations. He has also served as chief actuary at Argo Group, ACE USA, CNA–Standard Lines, and TIG Insurance Group.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Math
Mike Beck has been with Specialty Comp since 2012. With prior stints at QBE North America, ACE/Chubb, and the NCCI, he has specialized underwriting skills in virtually every geography, industry sector and class code. He has been recognized by Insurance Business America as a Top Producer and is routinely at the top of the list for production at SCIS as well as for the Specialty Program Group.
SVP, Chief Field Underwriting Officer
Mike Beck
Matt Feury joined Specialty Comp in 2012 after spending two years with QBE North America as senior underwriter, wholesale middle market WC. He began his insurance career with AIG Specialty WC in Boston, MA as an underwriter trainee and underwriter, later joining ACE/Chubb as a senior underwriter before spending two years with Seabright Insurance Company in Needham, MA. For 15 years, he has specialised in difficult WC underwriting assignments.
Vice President, Underwriting
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Barbara Drollinger
Vice President, Underwriting
Barbara Drollinger joined Specialty Comp in January 2021. She has an extensive workers’ comp underwriting background, with prior carrier experience at workers’ comp specialists CompSource in Oklahoma, Seabright, Texas Mutual Insurance Company, and Everest. At Texas Mutual, she served as the regional vice president in Houston, with oversight of all major operating disciplines in that region.
Vice President, Underwriting
Barbara Drollinger
Jenny Lopez-Rogina
AVP, Director of Operations of Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS)
Jenny Lopez-Rogina entered the insurance industry in 2008, overseeing regulatory compliance for a large multi-line MGA. Over the last 13 years, she has assumed positions with progressively increasing responsibilities, managing a variety of agency operations. When the workers’ comp unit of the multi-line MGA was spun off, she assumed the roles of operations supervisor, and subsequently operations manager of the new entity (SCIS). In her current role, she is responsible for the effective administration, execution, monitoring and continuous improvement of all internal processes as well as maintaining strong relationships with clients, carriers, and business process owners. She holds an MBA degree and is a licensed P&C insurance agent and a licensed real estate agent.
AVP, Director of Operations of Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS)
Jenny Lopez-Rogina
Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS) is a leading program administrator specializing in writing middle-market, monoline workers’ compensation insurance. The company’s roots date back approximately 15 years, when it was launched as a division of MarketScout, an insurance distribution and underwriting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
The workers’ comp unit, led by Jay Chase, grew from $0 to more than $100 million of premium, and was subsequently sold to Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) in June 2017. Under SPG, the new company rebranded as Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions. SCIS brought on industry leader Steve Math, FCAS, CPCU in January 2019. Math currently serves as SCIS’s president and CEO, having taken over the reins from Chase in 2022. Math and the outstanding underwriting team – led by Chase, Mike Beck, Matt Feury, and Barbara Drollinger – have helped the company double its volume to almost $200 million written premium in 2022, with outstanding underwriting results, materially better than industry averages.
“Employing some of the best workers’ comp underwriters in the industry, SCIS is able to utilize a craftsman underwriting approach to effectively underwrite and price extremely complex accounts,” says Math, president and CEO of SCIS. “Additionally, the SCIS advisory services model is embraced by carriers, brokers and policyholders, resulting in high customer loyalty and improved underwriting outcomes.”
Representing world class “A” rated insurers, SCIS operates as both an MGA and wholesale distributor. The SCIS team of highly experienced workers’ comp professionals has access to carriers with a broad risk appetite. Underwriters can access markets across most states, classes, and experience mods. Historically, SCIS has carved out a market niche in challenged placements such as tough classes, multi-state risks, high e-mods and recent losses. However, SCIS has broadened its platform to handle workers’ comp risks across the spectrum – challenged placements and standard market accounts, large and small. Writing across all major industry sectors, SCIS has been extremely successful in the specialty sectors of construction, healthcare, and hospitality. SCIS is also able to write single-industry staffing accounts.
SCIS has developed a highly effective advisory services model, led by Kirt Thompson, employing licensed claim adjustors and other specialists to provide an additional level of oversight on claims, loss control, premium audit/classification, and other functions. These value-added services are provided at no cost to carriers and policyholders, and have proven to be extremely effective in increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and policy retention. Further, the SCIS Advisory Services model has delivered proven positive results, driving down loss costs and ultimately improving e-mods, and lowering premiums. In a recent study, SCIS found that overall risk results improved by an average of 14.8% for all accounts serviced, with the most dramatic improvements observed for clients with mods of 1.20 and above.
“[In the near future,] SCIS seeks to build on its historically outstanding success by promoting the company’s name and capabilities more prominently,” says Math. “SCIS seeks to selectively grow its producer base and carrier partnerships in an effort to serve most market niches.”
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
Kirt Thompson
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Phil Jacks
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Kirt Thompson, based in Dallas, is responsible for the implementation of Specialty Comp’s claim and loss control advisory services. His focus is to assure that the combined resources of Specialty Comp, the insurance carrier, and other service providers are diligently applied to lower the total cost of risk to customers. Prior to joining Specialty Comp, he began his insurance career with ACE-ESIS as a workers’ comp claim adjuster. He also served as corporate self-insured workers’ comp manager for one of the world’s largest plastic manufacturers. He is a licensed adjuster in all P&C lines and is a Certified Risk Manager.
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Kirt Thompson
Phil Jacks is Specialty Comp’s compliance and premium audit advisory services manager. He has been with Specialty Comp since 2012, when he joined the organisation after 20 years as audit director at Old Republic Insurance Companies, where he supervised over 30 auditors. Prior to Old Republic, he worked for 15 years in various audit and management capacities with Employer Casualty Company, the predecessor to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Phil Jacks
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Kirt Thompson
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Phil Jacks
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Kirt Thompson, based in Dallas, is responsible for the implementation of Specialty Comp’s claim and loss control advisory services. His focus is to assure that the combined resources of Specialty Comp, the insurance carrier, and other service providers are diligently applied to lower the total cost of risk to customers. Prior to joining Specialty Comp, he began his insurance career with ACE-ESIS as a workers’ comp claim adjuster. He also served as corporate self-insured workers’ comp manager for one of the world’s largest plastic manufacturers. He is a licensed adjuster in all P&C lines and is a Certified Risk Manager.
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Kirt Thompson
Phil Jacks is Specialty Comp’s compliance and premium audit advisory services manager. He has been with Specialty Comp since 2012, when he joined the organisation after 20 years as audit director at Old Republic Insurance Companies, where he supervised over 30 auditors. Prior to Old Republic, he worked for 15 years in various audit and management capacities with Employer Casualty Company, the predecessor to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Phil Jacks
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Kirt Thompson
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Sanjay Mehta
EVP and Chief Market Officer
Phil Jacks
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Anthony Dippolito
Chief Wellness Officer
Kirt Thompson, based in Dallas, is responsible for the implementation of Specialty Comp’s claim and loss control advisory services. His focus is to assure that the combined resources of Specialty Comp, the insurance carrier, and other service providers are diligently applied to lower the total cost of risk to customers. Prior to joining Specialty Comp, he began his insurance career with ACE-ESIS as a workers’ comp claim adjuster. He also served as corporate self-insured workers’ comp manager for one of the world’s largest plastic manufacturers. He is a licensed adjuster in all P&C lines and is a Certified Risk Manager.
AVP, Director of Advisory Services
Kirt Thompson
Phil Jacks is Specialty Comp’s compliance and premium audit advisory services manager. He has been with Specialty Comp since 2012, when he joined the organisation after 20 years as audit director at Old Republic Insurance Companies, where he supervised over 30 auditors. Prior to Old Republic, he worked for 15 years in various audit and management capacities with Employer Casualty Company, the predecessor to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
AVP, Director of Carrier Compliance
Phil Jacks
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS) is a leading program administrator specializing in writing middle-market, monoline workers’ compensation insurance. The company’s roots date back approximately 15 years, when it was launched as a division of MarketScout, an insurance distribution and underwriting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
The workers’ comp unit, led by Jay Chase, grew from $0 to more than $100 million of premium, and was subsequently sold to Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) in June 2017. Under SPG, the new company rebranded as Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions. SCIS brought on industry leader Steve Math, FCAS, CPCU, in January 2019. He currently serves as SCIS’s president and CEO, having taken over the reins from Chase in 2022. Math and the outstanding underwriting team – led by Chase, Mike Beck, Matt Feury, and Barbara Drollinger – have helped the company double its volume to almost $200 million written premium in 2022, with outstanding underwriting results, materially better than industry averages.
“Employing some of the best workers’ comp underwriters in the industry, SCIS is able to utilize a craftsman underwriting approach to effectively underwrite and price extremely complex accounts,” says Math, president and CEO of SCIS. “Additionally, the SCIS advisory services model is embraced by carriers, brokers and policyholders, resulting in high customer loyalty and improved underwriting outcomes.”
Representing world-class “A” rated insurers, SCIS operates as both an MGA and wholesale distributor. The SCIS team of highly experienced workers’ comp professionals has access to carriers with a broad risk appetite. Underwriters can access markets across most states, classes, and experience mods. Historically, SCIS has carved out a market niche in challenged placements such as tough classes, multi-state risks, high e-mods and recent losses. However, SCIS has broadened its platform to handle workers’ comp risks across the spectrum – challenged placements and standard market accounts, large and small. Writing across all major industry sectors, SCIS has been extremely successful in the specialty sectors of construction, healthcare, and hospitality. SCIS is also able to write single-industry staffing accounts.
SCIS has developed a highly effective advisory services model, led by Kirt Thompson, employing licensed claim adjustors and other specialists to provide an additional level of oversight on claims, loss control, premium audit/classification, and other functions. These value-added services are provided at no cost to carriers and policyholders, and have proven to be extremely effective in increasing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and policy retention. Further, the SCIS Advisory Services model has delivered proven positive results, driving down loss costs and ultimately improving e-mods, and lowering premiums. In a recent study, SCIS found that overall risk results improved by an average of 14.8% for all accounts serviced, with the most dramatic improvements observed for clients with mods of 1.20 and above.
“[In the near future,] SCIS seeks to build on its historically outstanding success by promoting the company’s name and capabilities more prominently,” says Math. “SCIS seeks to selectively grow its producer base and carrier partnerships in an effort to serve most market niches.”
