Are you an expert or do you need one?

Why Work With Us

Experts in finding experts to fulfill stakeholder needs.

When you hire a NICExpert, you do not just hire the services of a specialist. You are engaging an entire team of resource-rich professionals you can grow collaboratively with, producing a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.

At NICExperts, we:

  • Encourage team collaboration, cooperation, and open communication to cultivate individual strengths and forge new paths based on diverse opinions and best practices.
  • Empower partners to excel at core competencies by removing obstacles and distractions in a practical environment without egos or judgment.
  • Mentor, learn, train, contribute, support, and continuously improve along with like-minded and courteous professionals giving the confidence and thick skin needed to elevate beyond your best.

What people say about us

Working with Jody Meadwell for many years has been a pleasure. Jody is an experienced insurance professional and an excellent trainer and mentor. In a leadership role, she has strong communications and problem solving skills. Her vision includes streamlining systems and processes on work projects to support consultants and remove barriers to achieving desired results. As a colleague, her dedication and positive attitude combined with her sense of humour makes working together fun as well as productive.”
– Barbara Basta

“The NICExperts co-founders truly are the dynamic duo of insurance consultants. Spend a moment in their company and you will observe they are enthusiastic, fun and informed. Get to know their work, and you will understand how their experience and skills bring added value to everything they do.”
– Christine Gilsenan

“I like working with the NICExperts executive team because it is all about the quality of the work. They work hard at removing administrative distractions while maintaining an exciting knowledge-sharing environment for the consultants who work with them. My relationship with NICExperts has allowed me to maintain my independence as a consultant while giving me access to a network of professionals who are focused on helping clients achieve their goals.”
– Neil Bishop

Custom Consulting Services & Training

With a wealth of experience at your fingertips, independent insurance specialists provide an impartial or expert opinion to move insurance and risk management projects along.

Custom Consulting Services & Training

With a wealth of experience at your fingertips, independent insurance specialists help you get over the hump, fill the gap, or help out until you find an expert of your own.

Underwriting & Claims Technical Audits

With subject-matter experts in multiple fields and disciplines, technical underwriting & claims file audits span a diverse range of portfolios.

Custom Consulting Services

Be your best with an impartial or expert opinion to move projects forward, assist with new system implementations, or discuss risk management, claims, and underwriting questions with an impartial third party.

Sales Training and Brokerage Relations

With a wealth of underwriting, claims, and intermediary experience, independent insurance specialists help mutuals achieve volume targets with sales training focused on building broker relationships.

Strategic and Operational Reviews

With decades of experience working for and consulting with stock and mutual insurers in addition to insurance agency and brokerage operations, NICExperts help prioritize and focus internal ideas to improve operating efficiencies.

Commercial Insurance – Underwriting Audit and Training

With a wealth of underwriting and claims experience, commercial insurance training is customized to commercial lines portfolio results. Audit results help focus training, wording, or operational changes to offer better risk selection and portfolio management.

Home, Auto, and Farm Insurance – Underwriting & Claims Audits

With subject-matter experts in multiple fields and disciplines, technical underwriting & claims file audits span a diverse range of personal and farm portfolios.

Part of the Team

Call us to supplement your insurance or risk management tea, discuss alternate insurance solutions, design or implement new insurance systems, or help implement insurance best practices.

Enterprise Risk Management Reviews

Quick Summary: With the ability to work with any insurer or intermediary on your behalf, NICExperts help identify, understand, and analyze risk exposures to discuss appropriate and cost-effective controls including insurance and non-insurance solutions.

Commercial Insurance Services

With no strings attached and no capability to place your insurance, NICExperts arrange remote or on-site visits to assess potential risk exposures or review contracts, policies, or wordings.

Operational & Enterprise Risk Management Reviews

With decades of experience working for and consulting with reinsurers, insurers, MGAs, and brokerages of all sizes, NICExperts bring fresh ideas to improve delegated authority and internal operating efficiencies.

Navigating Delegated Authority

Taking on delegated authority operations for the first time requires proper balancing of existing operations against new contractual requirements. A well-researched plan saves time, money, and effort in the long run.

Peer Review & Agency Audits

Design and implementation of, and training on internal or delegated authority audits independently or as partners of the agency's own team.

Insurance Audit Services

With the goal of continuous improvement, peer review or internal audit programs focus on clear & concise communications to work within existing best practices. Standard or tailored scopes of work handled remotely or on-site, are available in English or French. Licensed professionals familiar with local regulation are available on request.

Custom Consulting Services

With a wealth of experience at your fingertips, independent insurance specialists help you get over the hump, fill the gap, or help out until you find an expert of your own.

Expert Witness

Fact-based opinions are measured against relevant and appropriate professional, regulatory, and industry standards to assess technical and operational strengths and weaknesses.

Pre-Agency, Due Diligence & Run-Off Reviews

Focus is to work with onboarding teams to ensure early success before delegated authority partnerships begin or when contract changes require follow up review.

Operational Reviews

With decades of experience working for and consulting with reinsurers, insurers, MGAs, and brokerages of all sizes, NICExperts bring fresh ideas to improve delegated authority and internal operating efficiencies

Bordereaux & Reporting Reviews

Focus is on bordereaux trends, outliers, premium funds tracking, claims fund management, and satisfactory reporting requirements. Custom reviews and beta testing is available for on-line systems

Peer Review and Agency Audits

The most comprehensive reviews can include a mix of multiple functional areas including company, compliance, underwriting, claims, operations, IT, bordereaux, and accounting.

Insurance and Audit Services

With continuous improvement and relationship building as a common goal, Delegated Authority or Internal Audits focus on clear & concise communications to generate open discussions about findings and resolutions. Standard or tailored scopes of work, remote or on-site, are available in English or French

Lloyd’s Coverholder & Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Audits

Focus is to work with onboarding teams to ensure early success before delegated authority partnerships begin or when contract changes require follow up review.

Lloyd’s Operational Reviews

With decades of experience working for and consulting with Lloyd's Managing Agents, Coverholders, DCAs, and brokerages of all sizes, NICExperts bring fresh ideas to improve delegated authority efficiencies.

Lloyd’s Bordereaux & Reporting Reviews

Focus is on bordereaux trends, outliers, premium funds tracking, claims fund management, and satisfactory reporting requirements. Custom reviews and beta testing is available for on-line systems.

Lloyd’s Underwriting & Claims Technical Audits

With subject-matter experts in multiple fields and disciplines, technical underwriting & claims file audits span a diverse range of portfolios.

Lloyd’s Compliance Reviews

Compliance reviews focus on corporate ownership, company policies, and testing of regulatory, legal, tax, and licensing oversight.

Lloyd's CH & Delegated Claims Administrator (DCA) Audits

The most comprehensive reviews include multiple functional areas including company, compliance, underwriting, claims, operations, IT, bordereaux, and accounting.

Lloyd’s Delegated Authority Insurance & Audit Services

With continuous improvement and relationship building as a common goal, Delegated Authority Audits focus on clear & concise communications to generate open discussions about findings and resolutions. Standard or tailored scopes of work, remote or on-site, are available in English or French.