Colen Joins Keenan & Associates as Senior Vice President

Keenan & Associates, a privately held brokerage and consulting firm in Torrance, Calif., announced that Bernard Colen has joined the company as senior vice president in the public agencies property/casualty practice.

Colen has nearly 40 years of experience in workers’ compensation, both as a consultant and as the co-founder and president of third-party administrator Colen and Lee. After he sold his interest in that firm, he became a workers’ compensation specialist for the law firm of Lister, Martin & Thompson, responsible for client relations, business development and retention, litigation file preparation, research, lien negotiations, and appearances at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. He is also certified by the state of California as a workers’ compensation claims administrator.