Robert Bear is a Property and Casualty Consulting Actuary,
Reinsurance Consultant and Insurance Arbitrator in the firm he has established, RAB Actuarial Solutions LLC. This actuarial consulting firm's engagements have included loss reserve studies for self-insured entities
and for insurance runoff operations, reinsurance pricing analyses, actuarial support for a state's financial examination of
an insurance company, service as an insurance arbitrator and an actuarial expert witness in insurance and reinsurance arbitrations,
resolution of complex insurance coverage claim disputes, and research on loss reserving models.
Robert Bear is an actuarial consultant with 36
years of insurance industry experience that include 20 years managing reinsurance actuarial services. After beginning
his career at Insurance Services Office, he served as an actuarial manager at Prudential Reinsurance, Signet Star Reinsurance
and SCOR Reinsurance Company. He then served as Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary of PXRE Group, where he was
responsible for loss reserving functions and pricing model development, along with related corporate modeling.
RAB
Actuarial Solutions LLC offers the following actuarial, statistical modeling and reinsurance consulting services: (1) loss
reserve studies (2) reinsurance arbitration and pricing, including reinsurance commutations (3) actuarial and reinsurance
expert witness and litigation support (4) research on loss reserving and reinsurance pricing models (5) statistical and econometric
modeling, including optimization studies.
Robert Bear is a Fellow of the
Casualty Actuarial Society, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, and
an ARIAS-U.S. certified insurance and reinsurance arbitrator. He has earned MS degrees in theoretical mathematics from New
York University and in applied mathematics (focusing on mathematical statistics) and in economic systems from the Polytechnic
Institute of New York. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in mathematics from the University of Bridgeport.
Robert Bear currently serves as Chairperson of the CAS Dynamic Risk Modeling Committee
and is a member of the ARIAS-U.S. Technology Committee and the AIRROC Actuarial Committee. He previously served as Chairperson
of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) Actuarial Committee and as President of Casualty Actuaries in Reinsurance
(CARe).
