Casualty Committee

Mary Frances is a founder and senior consulting actuary with Select Actuarial Services. With over 40 years of property and casualty actuarial experience, she provides actuarial consulting services primarily related to the maintenance and design of risk management programs. Her clients include public entities, non-profits and public corporations as well as governmental pools and associations throughout the United States and Canada.

A past President of both the Academy and the Casualty Actuarial Society, Mary Frances has served on numerous committees and task forces for both organizations as well as various committees of the International Actuarial Association. She is currently a member of the IAA’s Actuarial Standards Committee and the CAS’s delegate to the IAA Strategic Planning Committee.

Mary Frances holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in mathematics and linguistics from Michigan State University.

David Heppen is a principal with Risk & Regulatory Consulting, LLC, providing regulatory consulting actuarial services in the areas of rate review, financial and market conduct exams, and financial analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in a variety of actuarial roles with RRC as well as a global insurer, a Big Four accounting/tax/consulting firm, and an insurance broker. Heppen is a current member of the Academy’s Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital Committee, a prior chair of the ERM/ORSA Committee and Workers’ Compensation Committee, and a prior member of the ASB Casualty Committee, COPLFR, and the P&C Committee on Equity and Fairness.

Prior to joining the ASB in 2026, Heppen served on the Task Forces to revise ASOP No. 7 and ASOP No. 20 and was chairperson of the Task Force to revise ASOP No. 30.

Heppen earned a BA in mathematics from Franklin & Marshall College. He is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Alisa Swann is currently a Senior Valuation Actuary working in long term care valuation at Genworth. Prior to her role at Genworth, Swann was involved in pricing ACA products and managing the transition to ACA for a regional health insurer, individual disability valuation, Medicare part D pricing, as well as writing Actuarial Opinions and Memorandums for multiple subsidiaries of a major national health insurer.

Swann has been a member of the American Academy of Actuaries since 2008 and became a fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 2010. Prior to joining the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) in 2024, Swann served on the ASB Health Committee, the Task Force to Revise ASOP No. 28, the Reinsurance Pricing Task Force, and the Actuarial Memorandum Practice Note Work Group.

Swann earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Georgia as well as masters’ degrees in both applied mathematics and population biology from the University of California, Davis. She is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.