Stan Johnson

Stan has extensive experience in the analysis of economic losses resulting from catastrophic events to companies of all sizes and a wide variety of industries, as well as the proper preparation, submission, and settlement of claims for those losses. He is considered an expert in business interruption, property, extra expense, product recall, cyber attack, and fidelity claims, as well as the evaluation of business interruption risk exposures and values reporting. He also has experience in litigation support for lost profits, breach of contract, product liability, and other commercial disputes, including testimony in deposition and state and federal courts. His experience includes matters involving companies of all sizes and a variety of industries. Stan has over 36 years of experience in this field, with a unique background, including experience providing loss accounting services to both insurers and policyholders.

Some representative project examples include:

• Prepared numerous property and business interruption claims for a Fortune 100 food service manufacturer who suffered losses at poultry, pork, and beef processing and prepared foods plants in the U.S. and Europe from 2011 to 2025.
• Managed claims for various hotel companies throughout career resulting from fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other events throughout the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Caymans, and other locations.
• Assisted a leading wireless telecommunications company with various claims for business interruption, extra expense, and property damage stemming from hurricanes in 2012, 2017, 2019, and 2025, wildfires in 2019, freezes in 2021, riots in 2020, and other matters in the U.S. and Poland. Developed a custom-tailored approach to assessing business interruption losses, which has been adopted by insurer experts in those claims.
• Assisted a semiconductor manufacturer with losses stemming from a fire in its manufacturing facilities, affecting existing equipment and delaying expansion plans in the midst of new product rollouts.
• Assisted a large resort owner/operator with business interruption claims stemming from ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2022, as well as builder’s risk losses in 2023.
• Prepared claims for various clients suffering business interruption losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Industries include healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, real estate, retail, and others.
• Assisted a credit card issuer with claims stemming from a cyber attack in 2020, which affected its ability to sell and accept payments for its various credit card offerings. Ankura was able to identify the various affected revenue streams and develop an appropriate methodology for measuring losses successfully for claim recovery.
• Served as an expert witness on several litigation matters involving companies suffering catastrophe losses, including business interruption losses, involving testimony in deposition and/or court testimony in state and federal courts in Georgia, Florida, New Jersey, the Virgin Islands, and Louisiana. Matters include those in the hospitality, textile, consumer goods, and chemical manufacturing industries.
• Served as appraiser in a matter involving a grain elevator operation in a dispute with its property insurer over a claim for tornado losses. The case was resolved through agreements reached in the appraisal process.
• Served as an umpire in a business interruption claim appraisal involving a paper packaging products manufacturer, which suffered a fire at its facility, vs. its property insurer. The case was resolved through agreements reached in the appraisal process.
• Served as appraiser in a property damage appraisal involving an office building development in South Florida and claims submitted to its insurer from damage caused by Hurricane Wilma. The claim was resolved in appraisal discussions prior to the submittal of positions to the umpire in the case.
• Served as umpire in an appraisal dispute between a policyholder in the specialty doors and windows industry and its insurer involving a cyber attack claim. The parties submitted their respective measure of loss and agreed to accept the findings of the umpire in a binding agreement.