We feel that the depth of any insuring relationship is never more on display than during a claims experience. Our partnership with the Life Science Specialty team of Western Litigations and Nationwide’s E&S/ Specialty casualty and professional liability claims teams uniquely positions our clients to have access to a roundtable of leading claims professionals rich in experience with Life Science litigation, suits, and claims. Our team focus allows us to quickly and adeptly respond to issues and claims helping to reduce loss costs, restore operations and safeguard our client’s customer relationships.
Extensive Life Science and Healthcare expertise of claims and single occurrence, class action and mass tort litigation in:
“We feel that the depth of any insuring relationship is never more on display than during a claims experience.”
Ryann Elliott, Managing Principal
Sam Terzich
Executive Vice President – Life Sciences Practice Leader
Sam Terzich is an Executive Vice President of Western Litigation (“WL”). Mr. Terzich has been in the claim industry over 25 years and has a background in all types of liability claims. His experience includes excess & surplus lines, reinsurance, and third-party administration on a nationwide basis.
Sam began his career at WLI in 2016. He is a member of WLI’s senior management team and is involved in claim operations, business development, and compliance. Sam directly manages claims for clients who have complex claim issues that require his level of experience.
From 2006 to 2016, Sam was President of ESIS ProClaim, a subsidiary of ESIS, which is a division of Chubb Insurance. In 2010, he led the acquisition efforts of ProClaim, so as to expand the company’s existing platform for services targeted in a variety of specialty claims including life sciences, product liability, environmental, and healthcare professional liability. Sam had operational management responsibility and also functioned as the Practice Group Leader for life sciences, product liability and professional liability – healthcare.
Prior to joining ESIS, Sam was the Executive Vice President of Cambridge Integrated Services and managed pharmaceuticals, healthcare professional liability, architects & engineers, other errors & omissions, product liability, reinsurance, structured settlements, and recovery business units. Sam was also a principal of Sutherland Page & Co., one of the predecessor companies of Cambridge.
Michael L. Fox
Vice President
Michael has been an attorney since 1980. After law school, he worked as an Air Force JAG where the majority of his time was spent on Federal Tort Claims Act litigation. He then practiced as an insurance defense attorney in Dallas TX litigating professional liability, commercial general liability and personal lines matters. He joined GB Specialties (formerly Western Litigation) in 2015.
Michael is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (1971 and 1980). Prior to law school, he served as a navigator in the Air Force, which included two SEA actions: Linebacker and the Saigon Evacuation.
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