255 Lacewood Drive

Suite 214 

Halifax, NS 

B3M 4G2

 

 

 

Ph:      (902) 457-2553

Fax:    (902) 443-0739

Email: Jessie@gmact.ca

 

 

Gmeiner Actuarial Services Inc.

Gmeiner Actuarial Services Inc. specializes in providing actuarial reports and consulting services for law firms.  Our expertise lies in the quantification of future financial losses and the valuation of pensions on marriage breakdown.

 

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Jessie Shaw Gmeiner

B.Sc.H., M.Sc., F.C.I.A., F.S.A.

          Jessie Shaw Gmeiner is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries which is the North American actuarial association.

 

Jessie obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours in Mathematics and a Master of Science in Mathematics from Acadia University in the 1970s.  Upon her Bachelor’s degree graduation in 1974, she was awarded the University medal in Mathematics as well as the Governor General’s medal.  Study at Acadia was followed by three years of doctoral study in Mathematics at Dalhousie University as a Killam Scholar and a National Science and Engineering Research Council Scholar.

In 1981, Jessie joined the Halifax office of an international pension and employee benefits consulting firm, and began the examination process for qualification as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and the Society of Actuaries, a process which was successfully completed in 1986.  In 1993, Jessie established her own business, Gmeiner Actuarial Services, which was incorporated in 1995.

Jessie has many years of experience in preparing actuarial reports in personal injury, fatality and matrimonial matters.   She also has extensive experience as a pension actuary.  She has prepared thousands of reports, with the vast majority of these cases settling out of court.  She has rendered opinions as an expert witness on well over one hundred occasions in the Supreme Courts of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, in the Court of Queen’s Bench, New Brunswick, and in the Federal Court of Canada. See Jessie's Detailed CV.

Jessie is a past member of the Examination Committee for the Actuarial Evidence course for the Society of Actuaries, and has been a long-standing member of the Actuarial Evidence Committee of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, ending as Vice Chairman of the Committee in 1997 and 1998.  She served as a member of the Committee on Professional Conduct between 2006 and 2011. In 2002, she was presented with a “Certificate of Merit” in recognition of service on CIA committees and task forces. 

Jessie has been a frequent program participant speaker at Canadian Institute of Actuaries conferences and seminars and has been a guest speaker at a number of Continuing Legal Education conferences and APTLA conferences.