Robert (Bob) Burkholder Email & Phone Number

Pliladelphia, PA

Coordinate litigation and claims management activities focusing on complex liability and insurance coverage issues. Evaluate coverage issues and determined appropriate case management actions to ensure positive resolutions/outcomes. Particular expertise in all aspects of claims involving environmental issues.

• Established claims operation for new division including emergency reporting and response capabilities, establishing “backroom" operations with Home Office and within the division, developing claim handling protocols.
• Grew office to six claim attorneys and incorporated in-house technical support into claim processes while underwriting book of business grew to over $55MM.
• Successfully handled and managed high exposure environmental, professional, and excess claims under environmental policies incorporating participation or active management of meetings between principals, arbitrations.
• Built and strengthened relationships with brokers and insureds in coverage-related matters.
• Using collaborative processes, leveraged claim trends to evaluate underwriting of specific accounts as well as overall underwriting risk evaluations and training initiatives for claim staff and underwriters.
• Achieved successful results in reinsurance audits.

• Coordinated litigation and claims management activities focusing on complex liability and insurance coverage issues. Evaluated coverage issues and determined appropriate case management actions to ensure positive.
• Managed defense counsel and coordinated coverage activities in conjunction with third party carriers.
• Assumed direct responsibility for negotiations, arbitrations, mediations and settlements.
• Established remediation strategies working in conjunction with environmental consultants.
• Consulted with underwriters regarding indemnification language regarding risk transfer for chemical plants and tank farm operatons.
• Coordinated remediaton contractor emergency response for HAZMAT incidents. Included claims involving tank truck overturn/release which closed major interstate over summer holidays.

West Chester, PA

Managed case and client requirements with emphasis on civil litigation, commercial/insurance defense, municipal law and development/environmental law.

Active duty US Navy JAG Corps from January 1983 to September 1986 serving at Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA and NWS Earle, Colts Neck, NJ. Naval reserve duty in Philadelphia, PA from October 1986 until 1991. Honorably discharged from Naval Reserves as a LCDR (04).

Jd, Law

Ba, Political Science