Our Executive Team

Kevin Kelly
Kevin W. Kelly
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Kelly has spent over 24 years in the healthcare and insurance industries. He founded Medical Risk Management LLC and KLN Specialty Insurance LLC in 2003. Both organizations are committed to the vision that integrating risk management education and practical risk mitigation interventions results in reduced losses, improved patient safety and lower healthcare costs. This vision has been validated over the past decade.
Mr. Kelly’s expertise includes operational, management and consulting activities spanning hospitals and healthcare systems, physician group practice development, managed care, business planning and implementation in the hospital, physician/PHO, and in an academic medical center environment.
Prior to starting Medical Risk Management and KLN Specialty Insurance, he spent two years as the Executive Director of the Signature Programs at the University of Connecticut Health Center. In this role, he directed the business plan development and implementation process of the University's three principle health care business strategies.
Mr. Kelly began his healthcare career as a National Fellow with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and the American Hospital Association operating out of Washington DC and Chicago IL respectively. Post Fellowship he was an administrator at Hartford Hospital, the Connecticut Health System, and one of the founders and the first Executive Director of the Hartford Physician Hospital Organization. Mr. Kelly was the 1990 founder President and CEO of MedSpan Health Options Inc., at that time, the largest provider sponsored HMO/PPO in the Northeast. The Company was sold in 2002.
Mr. Kelly is a graduate of Providence College and Yale University. He sits on a variety of business, academic and philanthropic boards and is a frequent lecturer on the topics of healthcare financing, delivery and risk management and insurance issues.
Joyce Lagnese
Attorney Joyce Lagnese
Chief Legal Officer
Attorney Lagnese brings over 30 years of experience in medical malpractice defense litigation and risk management consultation on behalf of medical institutions and physician groups. She has defended hospitals, physicians, and nurses throughout the region encompassing virtually every medical specialty including internal medicine, cardiology, anesthesiology, OB/GYN, radiology, urology, psychiatry, neurology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, pathology and all of the surgical specialties. She has extensive courtroom experience, and is well familiar with the strategies employed by plaintiff attorneys to exploit health care vulnerabilities.
Attorney Lagnese has utilized the insights which she has gained from her extensive courtroom and claims management experience to assist medical institutions, physician groups and malpractice carriers to identify risk prone practices and implement strategies to mitigate risks, avoid claims and improve patient care.
Trent Sullivan
Trent R. Sullivan, MBA
Vice President
Mr. Sullivan has spent over 15 years in the healthcare and insurance industry. He has been involved in hospital-based Quality and Utilization Management prior to becoming involved in Risk Management and Insurance. Before joining MRM, Mr. Sullivan spent five years as the Director of Risk Management at Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN) where he was responsible for development and implementation of the risk management plan, organizational loss prevention, claims management and insurance solutions.
Mr. Sullivan also formed a medical malpractice and general liability captive insurance company for ECHN. He has lectured to physicians, nurses, administrators in the acute care setting, office practice and long term care setting. He was the chair of the Connecticut Hospital Association’s Risk Management Group and was the President of the Connecticut Society of Healthcare Risk Management. Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and University of Hartford.
 
Nancy Walsh
Client Service Administrator
Ms. Walsh has over 15 years office practice management experience and has worked with KLN Specialty Insurance for the last 5 years. Ms. Walsh is responsible for all aspects of client service needs and office management. Ms. Walsh is the liaison for Continuing Medical Education approval for Medical Risk Management’s educational modules. Ms. Walsh has an extensive working knowledge of policy terms and conditions and risk management in the medical/professional liability insurance arena.