Steve Beigbeder, Principal
(RETIRED APRIL 2019)
Steve Beigbeder is a consultant specializing in workers’ compensation,
absence and disability management. He has over nineteen years experience
consulting to Fortune 500, multi-national and large public entities.
Steve recently retired from Deloitte Consulting LLP after joining the
firm in 1996 as the National Practice Leader for Disability Management
Services. Prior to joining Deloitte, Steve spent three years as a managing
consultant for Travelers Insurance and two years as a project manager
for Lynch Ryan, a boutique workers’ compensation consulting firm headquartered
in Massachusetts. Before embarking on a consulting career Steve spent
six years as a corporate Human Resource Director for a regional hospitality
business chain with six restaurants and two hotels.
Serving the public and private sectors, in employer, payer and provider
settings, Steve has extensive experience in leading client engagements
to control disability costs, enhance benefit delivery systems and improve
claim outcomes.
Steve has lectured extensively to employer groups and written numerous
articles on best practices for managing disability. He’s been published
in Business Insurance, Employee Benefits News, Workers Compensation
Managed Care, Risk & Insurance, the Journal of Workers’ Compensation
and Controller magazines. He has been a featured speaker at several
RIMS’ national conferences, the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability
Conference, Public Risk & Insurance Management Association and NY Self-Insurers’
Association seminars, and national conferences sponsored by the World
Research Group and the Institute of International Research.
Steve holds a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University and Human
Resource Management certification from Bentley University. Steve served
nine years as a member of the Board of Directors for the NY Claims Association,
was a 2-year member of the Advisory Board for Business Insurance’s National
Disability Management Conference, and was an 11-year Member of a municipal
Personnel Board responsible for labor relations, benefit plan design
and funding, and human resource management. Steve consults primarily
to large, self-insured employers and counts many recognizable organizations
among his serviced clients.
Throughout Steve’s nineteen plus years in workers’ compensation and
disability claims consulting he has provided program assessment, strategic
counseling, best practice research, information system selection and
implementation, and cost containment program development to Fortune
500 and large governmental entities.
Steve counts among his clients:
Multi-Nationals
· DuPont
· Wal-Mart
· BP
· McMoRan Energy
· ConAgra, Inc.
· Convergys, Inc.
· United Technologies Corporation
· Northrop-Grumman
· Chiquita
· Pepsi Bottling Group
· Carnival Cruise Lines
· Hilton Hotels Corp.
Public Sector
· U.S. Department of Homeland Security
· Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
· New York State Insurance Fund
· Illinois Department of Central Management Services
· Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents
· Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Second Injury Fund
· Maryland Injured Workers’ Insurance Fund
· New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority
· Massachusetts Port Authority
· METRA (Chicago and northeast Illinois/Indiana commuter rail
system)
· Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta, CA
· State of New Mexico
· State of West Virginia
· State of Iowa
· City of San Diego, CA
· City of Long Beach, CA
· City of Tulsa, OK
· City of Moore, OK
· Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust
· Anoka-Hennepin Independent School District, MN
· Government of Nashville and Davidson County, TN
Private Sector
· News Corp. – Fox Entertainment
Group
· New York Times
· Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
· Private Health Care Systems
· Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
· Goodyear
· Blockbuster Video
· Healthfirst
· Securian Insurance Co.
· Homestead Insurance
· Hughes Electronics
· ATA Airlines
· Viad, Corp.
· SBC Corp. (now AT&T)
· Brickstreet Insurance Co.
· Stein Mart
· Footlocker
· World Wrestling Entertainment – XFL
· CUNA
· CUMIS
· Carlson Companies
· Michael’s Stores
· Jones Day
· Bingham McCutcheon
· McLouth Steel
· Wolverine Tube
· Suffolk Construction
· Bond Bros. Construction
· Delphi Technologies
· Sara Lee
· Alliant Foodservice (now US Foodservice)
· Aubuchon Hardware