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Self-employed Risk Management and Insurance consultant providing fee-for-service assistance to the insurance buyer.  Perform risk management studies, independent evaluations of commercial insurance programs, conduct competitive proposal/bid process and self-insurance feasibility studies.  Work experience includes projects in approximately twenty states.  Litigation support and expert witness services to law firms began following the Daubert decision in 1993. This work split is approximately fifty/fifty between plaintiff and defense.  Litigation involvement includes agent custom and practice, flood (including both NFIP and private insurance), property, crime, liability, employee benefits, property leases, Broad Form Property Damage (BFPD), etc.  The BFPD includes both course of construction and construction defects.

John Marini has extensive disaster recovery experience and knowledge of public adjusting and the FEMA Public Assistance Program. He specializes in assisting public entities with their financial recovery through the integration of insurance claims with FEMA grant funding.

Marini has established a team of more than 140 experts who assist applicants and grantees with their post-disaster FEMA grant management and insurance recovery. He is closely involved in the management of Adjusters International’s Catastrophe Operations, assisting FEMA Public Assistance applicants and grantees with recoveries from Hurricane Andrew in 1992, hurricanes Katrina/Rita/Wilma in 2005, hurricanes Gustav and Ike and the Midwest Floods in 2008, as well as many other cases.

As a specialist in property, business income and extra expense claims recoveries and a licensed public adjuster, Luis Esteves is the Principal and an Executive General Adjuster for Jansen/Adjusters International. Luis handles between $80-$100 million dollars in losses annually, and has more than 20 years of experience with adjusting complex claims for large commercial real estate companies, manufacturing facilities, entertainment venues, multi-family properties, school districts and hospitals. As an expert on property loss adjustment who is retained by policyholders to assist in preparing, filing and adjusting first party property insurance claims, he works exclusively for his policyholder clients to maximize their financial recovery after devastating fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural and man-made disasters.