August 20, 2019 by matray

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources announced that Ken Hawkins, ACAS, MAAA, has joined Pinnacle as a consulting actuary in the firm’s Bloomington, Ill., home office.

Hawkins returns to Pinnacle after three years of leading pricing and rate implementation for a regional property/casualty insurer’s commercial lines products.

“We are very pleased to welcome Ken back to Pinnacle,” managing principal Joe Herbers said. “Ken has tremendous breadth and depth of experience and will bring a highly relevant, customer-focused approach to the work he does for our clients.”

Hawkins has more than 13 years of experience in the property/casualty practice area. His expertise includes loss reserving, funding studies, cost-allocation mechanisms, loss-cost projections, captive-feasibility studies, commercial-lines ratemaking, financial analysis of insurance companies, deductible analysis and simulation methods. He has extensive experience developing simulations that utilize company-specific data to calculate risk margins.

Hawkins holds Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) and Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA) credentials and received his Bachelor of Science degree in actuarial science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.