Joseph Jones - President and Chief Executive Officer
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Mr. Jones, a licensed attorney, was in private practice for over fifteen years with a large southeastern U.S. law firm specializing in corporate and employment law, banking and real estate. In 1998, he became general counsel for an Alabama holding company consisting of various companies specializing in communications, technology, real estate and claims administration.

In 2002, Mr. Jones joined one entity of the holding company, Allied American Adjusting Company and shortly thereafter was named President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Jones later helped re-organize Allied American Adjusting Company and merge it with a telecommunications company creating what is today Allied American.

Throughout his career, he has served on numerous business, civic, and association boards. As Allied American’s CEO, he uses his experience in legal and corporate management to create a full range of business and insurance services for Allied American’s customers while being involved in a significant amount of day-to-day activities of the company.

Rebecca J. Fussell - Executive Vice President of Business Services
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Becky joined Allied American in February 2007. Becky has 25 years experience in insurance industry, inclusive of Executive Director of the Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association and Chief Financial Officer with Citizens Property Insurance Company. Additionally, Becky served as Chief Executive Officer of Continental Systems, a full service provider of call support services and adjuster staffing for the insurance industry.

Becky has extensive experience in public affairs, insurance regulation, finance and legislative interaction, having been involved with the Florida Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance and the Florida House Committee on Insurance. Additionally, Becky has served in various capacities with Property Insurance Plans Service Offices, Windstorm Insurance Network and Residual Property Insurance Market Coordinating Council.

Mark Lozier – Vice President
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Mark joined Allied in 2010 to develop catastrophe and daily claims clients in the Midwest; focusing on National-based clients, along with his continued development and service support of London insurance market clients.

Mark brings 34 years of insurance property claims experience. Mark started his career at Continental Insurance in 1976 as a property adjuster. During his career Mark was awarded many promotions as property supervisor, a regional property examiner, a general adjuster and National General Adjuster assigned to home office.  During this time, he managed numerous catastrophe operations such as Hurricane Hugo and the San Francisco Earthquake. 

In 1992, Mark joined NCA and worked with others on the Management Team to create one of the top five Catastrophe adjusting companies in the nation. During his tenor at NCA he became partner, shareholder and from 2003 to 2006 was Chief Executive Officer of NCA Group.

Additionally, in 2004, Mark set up the third party claims operation for NCA in Maitland Florida to represent USF&G Risk, Citizens and First Home claims. In 2006, he sold out his interest in NCA and formed Integrated Claims Solutions, a nationwide daily and catastrophe commercial claims operation.

During his tenure with NCA, Mark assisted in the development of the Catastrophe plan for Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association (FWUA). In January 2004, Mark was asked to sit on the steering committee of the newly formed Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to establish a claims process.

Bennett “Ben” Siebert - Catastrophe Claims Manager
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Ben joined Allied in 2009 as the Catastrophe Manager. Ben has a unique background which qualifies him to direct catastrophe teams, especially for coastal landfall areas with highly developed municipality buildup.

Ben has over 20 years of construction experience, coupled with 9 years of complex commercial claims adjusting. Ben has sold, designed and engineer consulted for steel and concrete structures such as CMU concrete masonry units, pre-cast, tilt-ups, poured in place and post & beam for Morton Buildings, Inc, and SteelOx Systems. This intimate knowledge of construction methods and technology qualifies Ben as a top-end Executive General Adjuster.

In 2004, Ben handled over 200 complex commercial losses and policies and consulted on several hundred additional commercial losses. His involvement was inclusive of all aspects of claims management processes. Considering the complexities of the 2004 season and loss areas, Ben created a supplemental estimating companion which dealt specifically with large commercial complexities of estimating concrete, steel, electrical and mechanical issues. The average complex commercial claim was between 5,000 and 10,000 pages, and the losses ranged from $5M to $20M. Additionally, all claims were required to be prepared for examination and litigation.

In 2005, Ben oversaw claims management of companies that went into receivership in Florida. He was responsible for oversight and direct claim management and adjusting which was valued at $400M of complex commercial losses such as large multi-building condominium complexes. Additionally, Ben consulted with Carriers on General Liability, Builder’s Risk, 1st and 3rd Party Property losses.

In 2008, Ben oversaw claims management and direct adjusting of 5 Texas municipalities including the City of Pasadena which had losses on 360 commercial buildings including a civic auditorium and the 3-story, 60,000 square foot city management building. In addition the City of Baytown had over 250 affected buildings, total loss of the city marina plus the recovery, salvage, subrogation and auction coordination of abandoned vessels. Additional municipalities included Deer Park, Alvin and San Leon, Texas.

Stephen Harris - Liability Supervisor
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Stephen has 28 years in the claims adjusting industry and has experience in all aspects of Property, Casualty, Commercial and General Liability claims handling.

Stephen has 19 years of Causality, Municipal Claims, Self Insured Programs and Risk Management. In addition, Stephen has 17 years of SIU, 14 years in Residential and Commercial Property adjusting and 10 years Mediation and Arbitration experience.

Stephen has held the position of Division Manager, Claims Manager, Senior Claims Adjuster and Claims Adjuster for various organizations in Florida and Indiana. Additionally, Stephen has experience with Auto Appraising, Heavy Equipment Appraising, Medical Records Evaluations and Civil and Criminal Records Research and Review.

Sandra Burns - Claims Examiner
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Sandra has 25 years in the insurance industry, 20 years of direct claims experience. Sandra also holds an AIC (Associate in Claims) designation.

Sandra began her Bankers Insurance career as a property claims examiner for the Florida Joint Underwriting Association and NFIP. She also worked in Human Resources as a Claims trainer, and has worked many Hurricanes including Hugo, Andrew, and Elena. She held the position of Catastrophe Claims Manager for Bankers Insurance Group, overseeing the resolution of 42,000 claims during Hurricane Katrina.

Sandra worked as a contract employee for Allied American during the 2008 storm season examining Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Ike claims. She also worked for Allied American on a project involving the Mississippi Department of Insurance auditing Hurricane Katrina files.

Beli Karamovic - Claims Examiner
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Beli has 8 years of insurance claim experience working for Allstate Insurance Company.  Beli worked both inside and outside, as a field claims adjuster at the beginning of his tenure with Allstate. In 2004, Beli’s role included team lead with Allstate's National Catastrophe Team (NCT), servicing the Florida hurricane season.

In 2005 Beli was involved in the Flood Management Group that handled over 55,000 flood claims and continued his involvement with the Flood Group through most of 2007, being directly involved with development of Allstate’s current Flood Group hierarchy and process workflow creation. Additionally, during his tenure with the Flood Group, Beli served as liaison between Allstate and NFIP, ensuring proper claim handling of all flood claims reported nationwide. 

In 2007, Beli was assigned to Allstate's NCT Vendor Oversight Team, responsible for monitoring vendor efficiencies, with operations located in Mobile, Alabama, and acted as a Claims Consultant overseeing the large loss unit of inside adjusters. Beli will be working out of Allied's Mobile office.

Lisa Wellins - Claim Field Support
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Lisa Wellins has 18 years experience with all facets of Catastrophe and Daily Claims handling, including claims management, storm management, field operations, and training. Lisa's background includes the negotiation and settlement of residential and commercial losses, appraisal, and mediation, and adjuster training.

Prior to joining the Allied Team, Ms. Wellins was with ERS of Florida for seven years where she developed the Catastrophe Program and held the position of Catastrophe Coordinator and Field Supervisor. Lisa was responsible for field staff, IA's, and IA Firms handling storm claims for ERS of Florida and American Superior Insurance, and adjuster training.

Lisa has been with Allied American Adjusting since 2004. During her time with Allied American, Lisa has been involved in all aspects of claim management and carrier specific field process development, implementation and daily field management.

Lisa also has a programming background where she was part of a team developing mobile estimating software which allowed adjusters to write estimates as the loss was being scoped. Additionally, she was responsible for training adjusters on the estimating software.

Marie Atkinson - Claims Examiner
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Marie Atkinson joined Allied American as a Claims Examiner with over 20 years of multi-line claims handling experience. Maria has extensive knowledge of insurance contracts as well as investigation, while providing client’s prompt and efficient customer service. Maria has handled first & third party property and automobile claims in thirteen Southeastern states. Maria is versed in any aspect of claims to include commercial, residential, personal injury, med pay, bodily injury, uninsured & under-insured motorist, subrogation, special investigations, total loss, salvage disposal and sinkholes.

Marie’s background includes working at carriers such as Prudential, Hartford, Nationwide and Travelers as well as handling claims for Citizens Property Insurance & Florida Joint Underwriting Association for daily claims as well as catastrophe losses. Marie brings high ethics and dedication to the company.

James Rohmer - Chief Information Officer
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James joined Allied American in 2005. James brings with him (26) twenty six years of experience in the Information Technology field. James has both owned and managed businesses in all areas of technology. Prior to joining Allied American, he was the Vice President of Operations for an Internet and computer services company. James is an accomplished network administrator as well as a programmer with a special emphasis on network security and R&D.

Rob Evenson – Manager of Allied American Business Services
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Rob joined Allied American in July of 2004. Prior to joining Allied American, Rob spent 16 years with Tyco International, Fire & Security Division- ADT Security Services. His diversified background with ADT includes Field Operations Management, Administrative Operations Management, Call Center Operations Management, Marketing and Field Sales Management at district and regional levels.