John Botsford

FSA, EA, MAAA

Principal and Consulting Actuary

San Francisco, CA, US

John Botsford is a principal and consulting actuary with the Walnut Creek, California, office of Milliman. He joined the firm in 1994. John’s area of expertise is retirement and health and welfare benefits. His clients include private sector employers, public employers, and multiemployer trusts.

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Experience

For more than 20 years, John has advised clients on their retirement and health benefit programs. In addition to performing actuarial valuations of health and retirement benefit liabilities, John regularly performs plan design studies and strategic funding projections to assist his clients in understanding how today’s decisions will impact their employee benefits programs in the future. John has extensive experience in:

Defined benefit valuations
Asset liability modeling
Retiree medical valuations
Health claims cost development
Health claims reserve valuations
Rate renewal review
Health care reform studies
Medicare Part D attestations
Plan design
Experience studies
Nondiscrimination testing
Plan document drafting
Modeling of retirement income/costs
ASC 715 (FAS 87/FAS 106) valuations
SOP 92-6 valuations
GASB requirements
Nonqualified plans
Plan terminations and mergers

Publications and Presentations

John is a frequent speaker on employee benefits topics, addressing many groups, including:

Conference of Consulting Actuaries
Enrolled Actuaries Annual Meeting
National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems
Standard & Poor’s
California School Board Association
California Society of CPAs
California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission Bond Buyer’s Conference

Professional Designations

Fellow, Society of Actuaries
Enrolled Actuary, ERISA
Member, American Academy of Actuaries

Education

BA, History, University of California at Berkeley

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Publications

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Multiemployer alert: Additional guidance regarding deadline suspensions for COBRA elections, claims, and appeals

02 March 2021 - by Sean Silva, John Botsford, Michael Halford

Multiemployer alert: More guidance on deadline suspensions for COBRA elections, claims, and appeals.

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Multiemployer Alert: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

23 March 2020 - by Sean Silva, John Botsford, Ilina Ingolia

This article contains specific information about what the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” covers.

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Multiemployer alert: Additional guidance regarding deadline suspensions for COBRA elections, claims, and appeals

Multiemployer Alert: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

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