Howard Weiss

Howard was born June 13, 1941 in the Bronx, New York. He grew up just a few blocks from Yankee Stadium and learned at an early age the advantages of being part of a winning team. Howard graduated William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx and then rode the subway to CCNY in Manhattan.

After college Howard spent the next nine years designing personal trust, demand deposit and commercial loan computer systems for the banking industry. For the next three years he worked as a health care consultant. During this time he helped physician groups form HMOs and comply with the federal government’s quality of health care review mandates. He spent the better part of two years working with the City of New York and many state governments in designing and implementing systems to detect fraud and abuse in the submission of Medicaid claims by hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, physicians, dentists, pharmacies, ambulance services, etc. During this time Howard visited 44 state capitals.

At this point in time, the major commercial insurance carriers were experiencing significant losses in their medical malpractice business. As such they decided to abandon this line of coverage. This created a “crisis” for physicians in many states, who were now without a market for medical malpractice insurance. Howard, as part of a team of consultants, worked with medical societies across the nation to create physician owned and managed medical malpractice insurance companies within each state. Howard helped create seven such companies.

In 1977, Howard joined the Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange of New Jersey, a physician owned and managed medical malpractice company. He remained there as a Senior Vice President until 1993. His responsibilities included legislative lobbying, actuarial and statistical analysis, new product development, information services, communications and troubleshooting in claims administration, underwriting, risk prevention and marketing. Howard also served on several committees of the Physicians Insurers Association of America (PIAA). He traveled extensively and spoke to many organized physician groups about the causes and prevention of medical malpractice.

In 1993, Howard joined his wife Wendy at Second Opinion, Inc. He has implemented a strategy that has seen Second Opinion steadily grow to become leaders in medical malpractice case evaluation.