Katherine A. Pipkorn
Katie Pipkorn is a principal and consulting actuary with the Milwaukee office of Milliman. She joined the firm in 2013.
Experience
Katie is an expert in pricing and reserving for both personal lines and housing finance agencies. Katie specializes in risk-based pricing strategies and predictive analytics for insurance. With extensive experience with predictive modeling, rate filings, mortgage insurance risk, and model review, she helps organizations enhance pricing for auto, homeowners, and mortgage insurance products. A recognized thought leader, Katie frequently speaks at industry events and contributes to discussions on insurance pricing and risk analysis. She contributes insights on ratemaking and insurance trends to leading industry publications, including Risk & Insurance, Insurance Thought Leadership, and Milliman Insight. Katie has a deep understanding of mortgage risk, downpayment assistance programs, and mortgage dashboards, ensuring effective reserving and pricing decisions. Katie’s work in leveraging data-driven insights helps housing finance agencies maximize their missions by monitoring reserves, assessing mortgage risks, and enhancing pricing strategies. As the vice-chair of the Casualty Actuarial Society's Ratemaking, Product and Modeling Seminar, Katie is at the forefront of industry discussions on actuarial pricing and product development. Throughout her career, Katie has provided actuarial assistance to risk-bearing entities in both the private and public sectors, helping clients with a wide range of projects, including developing and refining rating plans, filing countrywide rating plans, estimating disparate impact, and evaluating the impact of proposed legislation. She has performed reserving analyses for various entities, including primary writers, captive insurers, and self-funded entities, while also preparing Statements of Actuarial Opinion.
Katie has spoken at many insurance industry conferences, including the CAS’s Ratemaking, Product and Modeling Seminar, the CAS’s Spring and Annual Meetings, the CAS’s Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar, the CAS’s webinar events, the Risk Management Society (RIMS), the Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA), the Midwestern Actuarial Forum, and the Insurance Managers Association of Cayman (IMAC). Katie is frequently asked by clients to give presentations at their internal continuing education days on various insurance topics. Katie has published numerous articles on various insurance topics, including the Private Passenger Auto market, the Commercial Auto market, Social Inflation, and the Student Loan market. Katie’s articles have appeared in industry publications such as Risk & Insurance and Insurance Thought Leadership.
- Fellow, Casualty Actuarial Society
- Member, American Academy of Actuaries
- BA (with honors), Washington University in St. Louis