Howard Rogers
President, CEO
Howard has many years of property and casualty insurance industry experience, including senior executive responsibility for sales and operations with a national claims service provider.
Howard’s credentials include: Associate in Claims, former president of Tennessee Claims Association, and graduate of Wharton Management Program sponsored by AICPCU.
John R. McLaughlin, AIC
Senior Vice President
John’s responsibilities include oversight of ClaimsCore. John has 15 years experience in the claims industry, having served as adjuster, quality assurance coordinator, supervisor, branch manager, project manager and business unit director.
He is cross-trained in the areas of Personal and Commercial lines Property, General Liability, Auto Liability and building products Class Action Administration.
G. Steven Sugg
Senior Vice President
Among Steven’s responsibilities at BrightClaim are Contents Services and Marketing. Steven has 20 years of experience in the claims industry, including running one of the largest property evaluation firms in the US for over a decade.
Steven has worked as a consultant with leading technology providers to the insurance industry and oversaw the development of one of the claims industry’s first stand-alone automated contents estimating systems.
Larry D. Washington, CPCU, CLU, ChFC, AIC, AIM, AIU
Senior Vice President
Larry’s responsibilities include managing Inspection Services, Catastrophe Services, and Environmental Response. He has more than 27 years of claims experience, including 10 years managing high profile class action settlement cases, product recall, product warranty, quality assurance programs, environmental claims and catastrophe claims.
Larry has completed the requirements for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter, Chartered Life Underwriter, Chartered Financial Consultant, Associate in Claims, Associate in Management and Associate in Underwriting.
Larry Chase
Senior Vice President – Strategic Solutions
Larry is responsible for managing projects and developing business processes that enable BrightClaim to fulfill its commitments to its clients. With more than 30 years of experience in the claims industry, Larry has served as subject matter expert, business representative, and project manager. Trained in the handling of both casualty and property claims, he specialized in workers compensation and professional liability claims during his time in the field. He later served in a variety of corporate staff, management and executive positions for a national provider of risk management services.
Ty Miller
Vice President - Sales
Ty joined BrightClaim in December of 2006. Ty has a vast amount of experience in the P&C Insurance marketplace. Before joining BrightClaim, Ty worked with the industry leading independent flooring laboratory ITEL, based in Jacksonville, Florida. Ty joined ITEL after building a successful competing flooring testing company (Spill Tech) which was acquired by ITEL in 2006.
Ty's insurance career began at State Farm in both claims and agency markets. He was also involved in the start up of Prism, one of the first contractor network programs. Ty's insurance career then transitioned to Home Depot where he served as the National Account Executive to the insurance sector.
Ted Vibbert
Assistant Vice President, IT Director
Ted is responsible for the overall design and implementation our IT initiatives. He has been involved in PC design and database development for the past 15 years.
Ted’s background includes work in the construction field, experience he later used as a supervisor where he managed a number of Class Action programs relating to plumbing and other building product issues. Ted now leverages his practical field experience with his IT knowledge to create sophisticated yet user-friendly systems, including the design and implementation of specialized environmental incident response systems.