Background
Jim Mahurin writes the Inferior Insurance Product column for IRMI.com.
Mr. Mahurin provides fee-based risk management and insurance consulting
services to the insurance buyer and provides litigation support and expert
witness services to law firms. His risk management consulting work has included
projects in approximately 20 states, geographically from Alaska to Florida and
Maine to Oregon. His litigation work totals more than 80 cases in both state
and federal courts from New York to Louisiana.
Mr. Mahurin's consulting work includes contractors, developers,
commercial property owners, hospitals, financial institutions, colleges, mines,
jewelers, cities, counties, public authorities, airports, manufacturers,
national labor unions, dredging operations, national issue advocacy
organizations, investment management organizations, an interstate toll highway,
petroleum dealers, oil field service contractors, maritime oil spill response
organizations, utilities, destination hotels, truckers, large farms, a
pollution remediation fund, private communities, condominiums, etc.
Mr. Mahurin has extensive experience related to flood issues, having been
actively involved in flood risk and flood insurance since 1974. He is
intimately familiar with the National Flood Insurance Program and excess flood
insurance provided by the private insurance market. A significant percentage of
his litigation experience has involved flood issues.
A separate area with long-term and significant experience, in both
consulting and litigation, is commercial general liability (CGL) coverage. Mr.
Mahurin delivered the 6-hour seminars introducing the 1986 CGL policy to the
industry in 3 states. The CGL topic includes substantial litigation work.
He also delivers seminars on a variety of risk and insurance issues. The
topics include risk management strategies, CGL, flood risk, property leases,
public entities, etc.
Mr. Mahurin is a past president of the Society of
Risk Management Consultants and a past president of two different state
chapters of the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU). He
is a master gardener, holds a Certificate in Native Plants, and is interested
in botany, entomology, and landscaping.