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About Harvey Topitz

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Topitz has more than 39 years of experience in the insurance industry, placing property casualty insurance for all industries and specializing in providing coverage for those businesses hardest to insure. He began his insurance career at Liberty Mutual, where he was awarded Top Producers designation and was a member of the prestigious Millionaires Club. At BRI Insurance Brokerage he introduced innovating programs such as an asbestos abatement contractor’s program. While with Tanenbaum Harber, now Alliant/T&H Brokers, he excelled in the hard-to-insure employee leasing industry (PEO) and the entertainment sector insuring celebrities like EMINEM and 50 Cent.
Rivers Insurance Groupwas founded in 2005.

Mr. Topitz saw a void in the difficult to place coverage area for companies that were in distress or working through a Chapter 11 Reorganization. Trustees, Bankruptcy Lawyers and Turnaround professionals know that Topitz and his team at Rivers Insurance can get the coverage that most brokers run away from. He has been on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Turnaround Management Association for almost 10 years and is known as the Go-To Insurance Guru.

Financial Poise Contributions

  • Executive Protection – Directors’ & Officers’, Employment Practices Liability, Crime/Employee Dishonesty & Professional Liability 2022 Webinar premiered on June 14, 2022 Webinar Series: Insurance For The Business Owner – 101
  • General Liability, Umbrella/Excess Coverage, Commercial Auto/Workers’ Compensation 2022 Webinar premiered on May 17, 2022 Webinar Series: Insurance For The Business Owner - 101
  • Property/Business Interruption and Cyber Liability 2022 Webinar premiered on April 19, 2022 Webinar Series: Insurance For The Business Owner - 101
  • Personal Lines for the Business Owner/Executive 2021 Webinar premiered on November 10, 2021 Webinar Series: Insurance For The Business Owner – 101 2021
  • General Liability, Umbrella/Excess Coverage, Commercial Auto/Workers’ Compensation 2021 Webinar premiered on August 18, 2021 Webinar Series: Insurance for the Business Owner 101 - 2021
  • Property/Business Interruption and Cyber Liability 2021 Webinar premiered on July 21, 2021 Webinar Series: Insurance for the Business Owner 101 - 2021
  • Understanding Risk Management Basics for Business Owners 2021 Webinar premiered on June 23, 2021 Webinar Series: Insurance for the Business Owner 101 - 2021