•  65 Years of Combined Medical-Liability Insurance Experience
•  Leading Independent Professional Liability Insurance Agency in Michigan 
•  900 Michigan Physician Clients
•  $13,500,000 Written Premium

Backus Payne & Associates is an independent agency specializing in standard- and alternative-risk medical-liability insurance— a member of the Better Business Bureau, Michigan Association of Insurance Agents and Professional Liability Underwriters Society.

Wayne M. Backus
Founded Backus & Associates in 1992, Wayne has been in the medical-liability insurance business, continuously, since 1972: General Agent with The Medical Protective Company, Director of Claims Management for a national Managing General Agency, licensed agent for Surplus Lines / Excess Insurance.

William F. Siewertsen
A Backus & Associates partner since 1997, William has been in the medical-liability insurance business, continuously, since 1988: Vice President of Risk Management, Operations and Marketing for national companies. William also has six years of hospital-based risk management experience— Lansing General Hospital and St. Joseph Health System / Flint .

Mark A. Tisdel
A Backus & Associates partner since 2000, Mark had been a Backus solicitor—full- or part-time—since 1993. Mark worked with Wayne as a Medical Protective General Agent from 1979 through 1984; has nine years of District and Regional Management experience in the hospital supply and medical devices industries.

John D. Payne
John has specialized in the medical-liability insurance business since 1995 as the Marketing Director in the professional liability division of Meadowbrook Insurance Group ( Southfield , MI ). In 2002, John left Meadowbrook and started his own insurance agency, J.D. Payne & Associates, Inc. specializing in medical-liability insurance. In 2004, John merged his agency with Backus & Associates to become the leading Michigan independent insurance agency specializing in medical-liability insurance.