Mike Warnick

Experience

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  Haskell & Perrin

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1996

  Associate
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  Peterson & Ross

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1997

  Associate
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  Fedota Childers & May

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2001

  Partner/Shareholder
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  CNA Insurance

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2018

  Chief Compliance Officer for world-wide compliance and ethics program for eighth largest U.S. Property and Casualty insurer with $11 billion in gross written premium, $56 billion in assets, operating in 49 U.S. states and with offices in 12 foreign countries. Additionally, chief lawyer and general counsel for CNA's business segments, Commercial, Specialty, Life and Group, World-Wide P&C Claim and other corporate and run-off domestic and internal operations.• Compliance: Rebuilt corporate compliance around three-lines-of defense operating model across world-wide operations. Improved staffing, internal training, technologies, operating efficiencies, remedial activities, governance and risk assessment and controls. Led cyber security and data privacy compliance efforts and data breach response teams.• Insurance General Counsel: Organized legal teams around client-centered operating model. Senior legal advisor for product development, pricing, rate and form filing, and TPA, dedicated underwriting, agency and other distribution agreements. Exceeded benchmarks in client satisfaction and cost effectiveness. Show less Senior legal counselor with broad and varied corporate legal, claim and management responsibilities. Grew and led small and large teams (of as many as 500+ employees) and functional areas, including, Corporate Litigation, Extra-Contractual Oversight, Claim Legal, Staff Counsel, Environmental and Mass Tort Claims, P&C Legal, and captive law firms. Member of CNA’s Operating Committee. • Litigation: Resolved high value and enterprise threatening cases and claims, including eight matters disclosed in SEC filings with no material financial impact. Built corporate recovery program, adding millions to bottom-line. Built top tier litigation management platform premised on the acquisition and development of highly competent in-house counsel in order to lower the expense and reliance on outside counsel.• Claim Management: Led Environmental Mass Tort Claims and Strategic Claims and resolved numerous high severity asbestos and pollution claims which stabilized legacy and non-legacy books while at the same time improving survival ratios as benchmarked against peers and company history. Led Claim Legal during period of time of significant claim challenges and helped improve loss ratios, stabilize core books of business and improve financial performance.• Transactions: Legal lead or advisor in large transactions, including $2.2 billion loss portfolio transfer of asbestos and pollution liabilities and acquisition of Lloyd’s of London affiliate.• Regulatory: Directed legal responses and corrective action plans to multi-state and state-specific market conduct issues, state and federal government investigations, and congressional hearings.• Leadership: Improved employee performance, engagement and commitment as evidenced by enterprise and industry leading turn-over and other people management metrics.• Organization Building and Design: Rebuilt Claim Legal, reorganized P&C Legal, created captive law firm, and expanded staff counsel and coverage operations. Show less

  • Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  • Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

    Jan 2004 - Jan 2017

  • Vice President and Claims Counsel, Strategic Claims

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2004

  • Assistant Vice President and Claims Counsel

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
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  ICW Group

  Jan 2019 - now

  Vice President, General Counsel, Registered In-House Counsel and Corporate Secretary