Sedgwick's Dave North announces his retirement

For almost three decades, Dave North led Sedgwick, a global provider of claims management, loss adjusting and integrated business solutions, helping to build the company from a regional, third-party administrator with 500 colleagues into a global service provider operating in 80 countries with more than 33,000 employees.

North served as the company’s president and chief executive officer from 1995 to 2020 and played an integral role in steering the company from a $50 million enterprise into a $4.6 billion business focused on providing business solutions for workers’ compensation, disability, managed care, property loss adjusting, risk consulting and other specialty services.

“For the past 29 years, I’ve had the honor of working with a tremendously talented team of Sedgwick colleagues to develop cutting-edge solutions for clients and to share in the successes and opportunities we’ve created,” he said in a statement. “Working at Sedgwick has been among the greatest privileges of my life, and I look forward to seeing the company’s caring counts philosophy continue to flourish.”

North is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and has been a recognized leader in the claims and insurance sectors for more than 40 years and received multiple awards and acknowledgements for his contributions to the industry.

“Dave’s remarkable and transformational leadership has made Sedgwick what it is today,” said Sedgwick CEO Mike Arbour in a written statement. “On behalf of the entire company, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to Dave for taking the claims profession to new heights and for his immeasurable contributions to the work we do each day.”