Michael R. Hubbel, CPCU, AU, ARM, ARP, AIM, ASLI, ARe

Michael R. Hubbel is a Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and Director of The Risk Management and Insurance Center at Olivet College.

Mike earned the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Risk and Insurance at Michigan State University, and the Master of Business Administration Degree in Risk Management at The College of Insurance, now part of St. Johns University in New York.  He has earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation, the Associate in Risk Management, the Associate in Underwriting, the Associate in Management, the Associate in Research and Planning, the Associate in Surplus Lines Insurance, and the Associate in Reinsurance from the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters and the Insurance Institute of America.

Mike has over 38 years of experience in the field of insurance.  He has worked with several insurance companies in the areas of research and product development, education, and government relations, his last appointment as the vice president of an insurance company.  Mike has taught insurance and risk management at the undergraduate level for the College of Business at Michigan State University, The College of Insurance, and Olivet College, and at the graduate level in the professional MBA program at Temple University in Philadelphia.  He has also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Professional Education at The College of Insurance, designing programs for a wide variety of firms.  Mike has conducted seminars for diverse audiences including professionals from Arch, Argonaut, Colony, Deloitte, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Risk Management Solutions, and Willis, in the U.S. and other countries.

Mike has served on numerous committees for the Michigan Insurance Department, the Michigan Supreme Court, and the insurance community.  He has testified for the Michigan Legislature, and has lectured on the subject of the U.S. insurance industry for groups of insurance executives and regulators from all over the world.  And he has published articles in Best’s Review, On the Risk, The Sextant, and Journal of International Insurance, and designed online insurance courses for Seton Hall University and IBM.  Mike continues to conduct professional seminars for St. John’s University in New York City.  He is editor of RMI Straight Line on current insurance and risk management issues, published by the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame, and the Editorial Board of the Insurance Markets and Companies: Analyses and Actuarial Computations journal.

Mike is the Administrator of the Michigan Insurance Hall of Fame, a past advisor for the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma, past president of the Board of Trustees of the international collegiate insurance society – Gamma Iota Sigma, and a past member of the advisory board for the Journal of International Insurance.  He is a member of the Western Michigan Chapter of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, the International Insurance Society, the American Risk and Insurance Association, and the Board of Directors of the Westran Insurance Scholarship Foundation.

Mike was the director of the Insurance Program at Olivet College from 1985 to 1989.  He returned to Olivet in 1995 to resume his responsibilities, which include undergraduate insurance and risk management education, professional seminar development, writing, and consulting.  Mike also served as chair of the Department of Business Administration and Economics.