FINREP Florida , 2026

Art has been in the insurance industry since 1998 and has been consulting since 2001. His consulting career has focused on medical professional liability (MPL), homeowners, commercial property, workers’ compensation (WC), commercial and personal automobile, general liability, commercial multiple peril and title exposures.

Art provides actuarial consulting services to property and casualty (re)insurers, self-insured entities, risk retention groups and captive insurers. His core services include reserving, ratemaking, risk transfer testing, funding allocations, and developing experience rating plans.

Art serves as appointed actuary and/or loss reserve specialist for numerous (re)insurance carriers, captive insurance companies and self-insured entities. He advises numerous self-insured entities and (re)insurance companies on matters related to financial reporting of unpaid claim liabilities, routinely presenting to boards of directors and executive committees charged with financial reporting.

Art performs rate level reviews for a variety of coverages, including preparing and submitting filings and responding to insurance department inquiries. He establishes proper funding allocations among members of risk sharing groups, and conducts valuation analyses of merger and acquisition targets. Art also performs alternative risk financing feasibility studies and retention optimization studies, including financial performance modeling, as well as classification relativity studies to ensure price equity between classes and overall rate level adequacy.

In addition, he develops experience rating plans for MPL and WC (re)insurers, including post-implementation parameter testing. Art also assists (re)insurance companies with new product development and expansion into new territories, states and risk classes.

Charles Nyce is the Dr. William T. Hold Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and department chair of the RMI program at Florida State University (FSU). He has been at FSU since 2009 when he joined as the Associate Director of the Florida Catastrophic Storm Risk Management Center.

His main research areas are catastrophic risk pricing/financing and traffic safety/auto insurance.  He joined the Center in 2009 after serving as Senior Director of Knowledge Resources for the American Institute for CPCU.  He has authored numerous articles on a variety of risk management and insurance topics, including the relationship between insurance premiums and housing values, mitigation, demand for insurance, distracted driving, and catastrophic risk financing.  He has his PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has taught risk management and insurance at LaSalle University, the University of Hartford, and the University of Georgia. 

Wes Strickland serves as outside counsel to the Florida Property & Casualty Association. Mr. Strickland is the founder of Strickland Law, PLLC, where his practice focuses on insurance regulatory and corporate transactional matters.

With over twenty-five years of experience handling insurance regulatory law and complex corporate transactions, Mr. Strickland provides counsel to both domestic and international insurers and reinsurers, managing general agencies, insurance producers, insurance holding companies and their investors. Mr. Strickland routinely counsels clients regarding a wide array of insurance regulatory matters, including formation and startup of new insurance entities, multi-state licensing and compliance, insurance holding company act compliance, affiliated transactions, and market conduct and financial examinations.

A member of The Florida Bar, Mr. Strickland is a graduate of Florida State University College of Law and Florida State University.

Andrew is the Vice President - Controller for Citizens and has over 20 years of financial and accounting experience within the insurance industry. His primary duties at Citizens include directing the accounting policy of the organization, oversight of financial reporting and related regulatory filings, budget, treasury and investment operations, and management of the external audit process. Prior to joining Citizens, Andrew served as an assurance services manager with a public accounting firm providing audit, advisory and consulting services to a variety of Florida‐domiciled insurance carriers primarily within the property and casualty sector. Andrew holds a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from Valdosta State University and a Master's degree in Accounting from Auburn University. Andrew is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Florida and is a CFA® Charterholder.

Trevor is a senior reinsurance broker working out of the Gallagher Re Tampa office and focuses on marketing, producing, and servicing of property and casualty clients.  He uses his extensive financial background to help clients work through complex problems and business issues.

Prior to joining Gallagher Re, Trevor was the Chief Financial Officer of Cypress Group Holdings, Inc., a property and casualty insurance holding company.  He joined Cypress in 2020.  Prior to that, Trevor held similar roles at other insurance companies, including American Strategic Insurance, where he started in 2004.

Trevor graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S. degree in Accounting and from the University of Florida with an M.B.A.  Trevor is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants.