He was appointed managing partner in 2001 and now oversees 65 associates in an office that manages $4.5 billion in client insurance policies.
The report concerns the insurer Fortis, now part of Assurant Health, which turns out to have had a systematic policy of revoking its clients' policies when they got sick.
Discourse analysis of interviews (with architects, planners and clients), policies, and written accounts (planning applications and associated correspondence) investigates the positions of various stakeholders in response to these housing projects and to their protected rural landscape settings.
By failing to protect their portfolios, insurers are threatening their long-term capacity to cover future claims, putting clients' policies in jeopardy, and risking a systemic failure that could have catastrophic effects on the wider economy, according to Mr. Poulter.
The Panorama team managed to get inside a briefing that a large US insurance company was giving its staff, awarding them huge bonuses for finding loopholes in the clients' policies, so they didn't have to pay up!
A contingency fee, for example, might entice a broker close to meeting an insurer's volume target to place his next client's policy there, even if another insurance company has a better or more keenly priced product.Aon, Marsh & McLennan and Willis, the three biggest brokers, acknowledged receiving subpoenas from Mr Spitzer and declined to comment further.
"Quantitative analysis is just a picture in time, looking at the past and current numbers" said David Wilson, a director of private client investment policy at Merrill Lynch.
Drilling new wells must be in line with the client's policy and also limitations present in the field.
