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BEST’S REVIEW Commissioners February 2010 Regulatory/Law Regulator

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ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: 2003 appointment, was a partner at DeCon- $26 Billion Jim L. Ridling, Commissioner Total Revenue: cini, McDonald, Yetwin, & Lacy, P.C. since 1989. 201 Monroe St., Suite 1700, $470 Million Earlier, spent 12 years as a property/casu- Montgomery, AL 36104 Domestic Insurers: 347 alty claims representative. Clerked for Phone: 334-269-3550 Fax: 334-241-4192 Total Insurers: 1,945 Supreme Court. Named one of Top 50 pro bono www.aldoi.gov attorneys in state. Seventh-generation descendant of Tucson pioneers. Background: Graduated from University of the Ozarks; entered a management training program DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: in 1967 with Fireman’s Fund Insurance. Worked Jay Bradford, Commissioner $19 Billion his way up to executive vice president of U.S. 1200 W. Third St., Total Revenue: $313 Million operations. In 1987, traded his stock in American Little Rock, AR 72201-1904 Domestic Insurers: 44 Express (which then owned Fireman’s Fund) for Phone: 501-371-2600; Fax: 501-371-2629 Total Insurers: 1,547 ownership in Southern Guaranty, a Fireman’s www.insurance.arkansas.gov Fund subsidiary; came to Montgomery, Ala., as president and chief Background: Appointed executive officer, and became chairman before retiring in 2003. on Jan. 15, 2009, by Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe. Later, co-founded River Bank and Trust, where he serves as vice chairman. Total Direct Premium: Bradford previously served for two years as $10 Billion Total Revenue: Director of the Division of Behavioral Health Ser- DIVISION OF INSURANCE $194 Million vices within the Arkansas Department of Human Linda Hall, Director Domestic Insurers: 65 Services. He worked in the insurance industry 550 West 7th Ave., Suite 1560, Total Insurers: 1,577 for more than four decades and also served as a Anchorage, AK 99501-3567 state legislator for more than 20 years. Phone: 907-269-7900 Fax: 907-269-7910 www.commerce.state.ak.us/insurance DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Background: Former president of the Alaska Steve Poizner, Commissioner Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers 300 Capitol Mall, Suite 1700, Total Direct Premium: and director of Independent Insurance Agents Sacramento, CA 95814 $3 Billion & Brokers of America, 1997-2003. Past chair Phone: 916-492-3500; Fax: 916-445-5280 Total Revenue: $60 Million of Alaska Workers’ Compensation Review and www.insurance.ca.gov Domestic Insurers: 8 Advisory Committee. Earlier, Hall was a high Background: Businessman/entrepreneur. Total Insurers: 743 school English teacher in . Founder of SnapTrack, a company that devel- Total Direct Premium: $129 Billion oped life-saving technology to place GPS OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR Total Revenue: $2 Billion receivers into cell phones for 911 emergency Fiaigoa A. Paogofie, Insurance Commissioner Domestic Insurers: 182 response; sold to Qualcomm in 2000. MBA American Samoa Government, Executive Office Building, Total Insurers: 1,332 from ; B.S. in electrical Third Floor, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 engineering from the University of . Co-founder of Poizner Family Phone: 011-684-633-4116 Fax: 011-684-633-2269 Foundation and Ed Voice, working to improve public education system.

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE DIVISION OF INSURANCE Christina Urias, Director Marcy Morrison, Insurance Commissioner 2910 North 44th St., Suite 210, 1560 Broadway, Suite 850, Phoenix, AZ 85018-7256 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 602-364-3100 Fax: 602-364-3470 Phone: 303-894-7425 Fax: 303-894-7455 www.id.state.az.us www.dora.state.co.us/insurance Background: Reappointed to new six-year E-mail: [email protected] term that began January 2005. Prior to Background: Former chair of the Division of

Best’s Review • february 2010 • REPRINT Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. Total Direct Premium: Insurance’s volunteer Consumer Insurance DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE $28 Billion Council and a consumer representative to John W. Oxendine, Insurance Commissioner Total Revenue: $199 Million the National Association of Insurance Com- 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, West Tower, Domestic Insurers: 61 missioners. Began public service in 1984 as Suite 704, Atlanta, GA 30334 Total Insurers: 1,500 El Paso County Commissioner. Served in the Phone: 404-656-2056 Fax: 404-656-4030 state House chairing the Health Environment, Welfare and Institutions E-mail: [email protected] Committee, and the Health Care Task Force and the Intractable Pain www.gainsurance.org Task Force. Background: Re-elected to a fourth term in 2006, Total Direct Premium: $40 Billion becoming the first Republican in state history INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Total Revenue: elected to an office four times. Helped to pass a Thomas R. Sullivan, Commissioner $805 Million law making health insurance portable. Cracked P.O. Box 816, Hartford, CT 06142-0816 Domestic Insurers: 110 down on insurance fraud and unlicensed compa- Total Insurers: 1,657 Phone: 860-297-3800; Fax: 860-566-7410 nies, reduced workers’ compensation insurance E-mail: [email protected] costs and implemented tough disclosure laws for insurers and agents. www.ct.gov/cid Background: Appointed in April 2007 by DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE AND TAXATION Gov. M. Jodi Rell, after 20 years in insur- John P. Camacho, Banking and Insurance Commissioner Total Direct Premium: ance customer service and consumer rela- P.O. Box 23607, G.M.F., Guam 96921 $32 Billion Total Revenue: tions. Most recently senior vice president Phone: 671-635-1816 Fax: 671-633-2643 $181 Million of Specialty Risk Services LLC, a wholly www.guamtax.com Domestic Insurers: 102 owned subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Background: Appointed banking and insurance com- Total Insurers: 1,297 Services Group Inc. missioner on Oct. 29, 2008. Serves as a member of the Governor Camacho Fiscal Recovery Team. Served DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE as deputy director for the department of Revenue and Taxation from Dec. Karen Weldin Stewart, Commissioner 2003 to Oct. 2008. Has extensive experience in the field of taxation. Rodney Building, 841 Silver Lake Blvd., Served as deputy tax commissioner from Jan. 2000 to Dec. 2003. Dover, DE 19904 Phone: 302-674-7300; Fax: 302-739-5280 INSURANCE DIVISION E-mail: [email protected] J.P. Schmidt, Commissioner www.delawareinsurance.gov Department of Commerce and Consumer Background: Former president and CEO Affairs, P.O. Box 3614, Honolulu, HI 96813 Total Direct Premium: of the Weldin Group Inc., an insurance Phone: 808-586-2799 Fax: 808-586-2806 $38 Billion Total Revenue: and reinsurance consulting company. Co- E-mail: [email protected] $121 Million founder and former three-term president of www.hawaii.gov/dcca/areas/ins Domestic Insurers: 170 the International Association of Insurance Background: Previously, Schmidt was corpo- Total Insurers: 1,479 Receivers; remains on the board. Served Total Direct Premium: rate counsel for the County of Maui. Prior to $8 Billion as a regulatory coordinator on working group that created origi- Total Revenue: government service, was an officer with the nal National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Receivers $109 Million Los Angeles Agency of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Handbook for Insurance Company Insolvencies. Former assistant Domestic Insurers: 190 Bank in commercial lending, and with Coldwell to State Sen. Harris B. McDowell III; served on the campaign for Total Insurers: 1,212 Banker Commercial Group. former Sen. Joe Biden’s first presidential race. Serves on the City Democratic Committee of Wilmington. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE OFFICE OF William W. Deal, Director INSURANCE REGULATION 700 West State St., 3rd Floor, Kevin McCarty, Commissioner of Boise, ID 83720-0043 Insurance Regulation Phone: 208-334-4250 Fax: 208-334-4398 The Larson Building, 200 E. E-mail: [email protected] Gaines St., Room 101, www.doi.idaho.gov Tallahassee, FL 32399-0301 Background: Eight-term member of the state Total Direct Premium: House of Representatives; selected as com- Phone: 850-413-2526; $6 Billion Total Direct Premium: Fax: 840-413-2950 Total Revenue: missioner by Gov. Butch Otter in Jan. 2007. As $107 Billion $84 Million a legislator, was an advocate for many health Total Revenue: www.floir.com Domestic Insurers: 17 $428 Million Background: McCarty is a leading member insurance issues, including workers’ compensa- Total Insurers: 1,466 Domestic Insurers: 619 of the NAIC’s Catastrophe Working Group. tion for agricultural workers. More than 40 years’ Total Insurers: 2,545 Serving as 2010 NAIC vice president. experience as an insurance agent; member of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America.

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ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: of Lawrence, Kan., and was on the Lawrence Michael T. McRaith, Director $17 Billion City Commission. A recipient of the Dr. Nathan Total Revenue: 100 W. Randolph, Suite 9-301, $157 Million B. Davis Award, given annually by the Ameri- Chicago, IL 60601-3251 Domestic Insurers: 50 can Medical Association to individuals who Phone: 312-814-5559 Fax: 312-814-5435 Total Insurers: 1,682 have made a significant contribution to the E-mail: [email protected] public health through elected and career government service. http://insurance.illinois.gov Background: In December 2008, McRaith was DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: named the state’s secretary of financial and Sharon P. Clark, Commissioner $62 Billion Total Revenue: professional regulation. Prior to the appoint- 215 W. Main St., Frankfort, KY 40601 $390 Million ment, he spent 15 years in private practice as Phone: (502) 564-6098 Fax: (502) 564-2669 Domestic Insurers: 379 an attorney in Chicago. Serves on the executive http://doi.ppr.ky.gov/kentucky/ Total Insurers: 1,795 committee of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Background: Former director of the Con- and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Chicago Chapter. sumer Protection and Education division at Kentucky’s DOI. Served three years in DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: positions for the Kentucky House of Rep- $17 Billion Carol Cutter, Commissioner Total Revenue: resentatives before accepting a position in 311 W. St. Suite 300, $277 Million the Finance and Administration Cabinet in Indianapolis, IN 62767-1678 Domestic Insurers: 111 December 2007. Has worked with the Public Phone: 317-232-3520 Fax: 317-232-5251 Total Insurers: 1,652 Service Commission and the former Work- E-mail: [email protected] force Development Cabinet. Received both her B.A. and M.A. from www.in.gov/idoi the University of Kentucky. Background: Spent more than 30 years in the Total Direct Premium: insurance industry with experience in both the DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE $28 Billion Total Revenue: property/casualty and life/health segments. James Donelon, Commissioner $200 Million Previously served as marketing director for P.O Box 94214, Baton Rouge, LA 70804 Domestic Insurers: 180 Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Co. Served Phone: 225-342-5423 Fax: 225-342-1993 Total Insurers: 1,815 as deputy commissioner for health issues, and www.ldi.state.la.us was promoted in 2007 to chief deputy commissioner for health and Background: Prior to becoming insurance legislative affairs. commissioner, served the Department of Insur- ance in leadership positions as chief deputy DIVISION OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: commissioner and executive counsel. Retired $22 Billion Susan Voss, Commissioner Total Revenue: $419 as the State Judge Advocate for the Louisiana 330 E. Maple St., Des Moines, IA 50319 Million Army National Guard, where he held the rank Phone: 515-281-5523 Fax: 515-281-3059 Domestic Insurers: 131 of Colonel. From 1981 to 2001 he served in www.iid.state.ia.us Total Insurers: 1,597 the Louisiana House of Representatives. Background: With the Iowa Insurance Division since 1993. Has held a number of differ- BUREAU OF INSURANCE ent positions with state government including Mila Kofman, Superintendent Total Direct Premium: assistant attorney general for the Department 34 State House Station, $25 Billion Total Revenue: of Transportation, legal counsel to the State Augusta, ME 04333-0034 $127 Million Ombudsman and counsel to the Iowa Legis- Phone: 207-624-8475 Domestic Insurers: 210 lature in the area of taxation and economic Fax: 207-624-8599 Total Insurers: 1,611 development. Serving as 2010 president-elect www.maine.gov/insurance of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Background: Former associate research Total Direct Premium: professor at the Georgetown University $6 Billion DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Revenue: Health Policy Institute. At Georgetown, she Sandy Praeger, Commissioner $93 Million led research projects focused on public and 420 SW 9th St., Topeka, KS 66612-1678 Domestic Insurers: 26 private solutions to issues of health care Phone: 785-296-3071 Fax: 785-296-7805 Total Insurers: 1,106 fraud and uninsured consumers. E-mail: [email protected] Specialized in developing guidance for state and federal health www.ksinsurance.org care reform initiatives at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1997 Background: Served as president of the to 2001. National Association of Insurance Commis- Served as a consumer representative at the National Association sioners in 2008. Served three terms in the Kansas Senate and one of Insurance Commissioners and co-editor of the Journal of Insur- term in the Kansas House of Representatives. Also served as mayor ance Regulation.

Best’s Review • february 2010 • REPRINT Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. INSURANCE ADMINISTRATION COMMISSIONER INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Elizabeth “Beth” Sammis, Interim Head , Commissioner 200 St. Paul Place, Suite 2700, 1001 Woolfolk State Office Building, Baltimore, MD 21202-2272 501 N. West St., Jackson, MS 39201 Phone: 410-468-2090 Fax: 410-468-2020 Phone: 601-359-3569 Fax: 601-359-2474 www.mdinsurance.state.md.us www.mid.state.ms.us Total Direct Premium: $28 Billion Deputy Insurance Commissioner Elizabeth “Beth” Background: Former state senator and chair- Total Revenue: Sammis was named interim head of Maryland’s man of the Senate Education Committee. Key $331 Million Insurance Administration on Jan. 12, succeeding Total Direct Premium: member of the Senate Insurance Committee $10 Billion Domestic Insurers: 72 Ralph Tyler, who resigned to become chief legal Total Revenue: and one of the writers of the 2007 Wind Pool Total Insurers: 1,525 counsel at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. $201 Million Insurance bills. Member of Agriculture, Envi- Domestic Insurers: 45 ronmental Protection, Insurance, Congressio- DIVISION OF INSURANCE Total Insurers: 1,562 nal Redistricting, Legislative Reapportionment, Joseph G. Murphy, Acting Commissioner Ports and Marine Resources and Universities and Colleges commit- of Insurance tees. Named 2006 Legislator of the Year by Mississippi Association 1 South Station, Boston, MA 02210-2208 of Realtors, and 2007 Legislator of the Year by the Mississippi Home- Phone: 617-521-7301 Fax: 617-521-7758 builders Association, for legislative work in rebuilding the state’s Gulf www.mass.gov/doi Coast region following Hurricane Katrina. Background: Joined the Division of Insurance as first deputy commissioner in 2006. Prior to DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, Total Direct Premium: that, spent 12 years in the Massachusetts Leg- $46 Billion FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS & Total Revenue: islature as chief of staff and research director of PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION $495 Million the Joint Committee on Financial Services and, John M. Huff, Acting Director of Insurance Domestic Insurers: 94 before that, the Joint Committee on Insurance. 301 W. High St., Suite 530, P.O. Box 690, Total Insurers: 1,274 Shepherded the Producer Licensing Model Act Jefferson City , MO 65102-0690 and legislation making Massachusetts the 31st state to join the Inter- Phone: 573-751-4126 Fax: 573-751-1165 state Insurance Product Regulation Commission. www.insurance.mo.gov Total Direct Premium: $29 Billion Background: Has 16 years of leadership MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF Total Revenue: experience in the insurance industry and dis- LABOR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH $250 Million pute resolution. Began his career as an asso- Ken Ross, Commissioner Domestic Insurers: 205 ciate, and later became a partner, with Field, Office of Financial and Insurance Services, Total Insurers: 1,704 Gentry & Benjamin P.C., an insurance practice Ottawa Building, 3rd Floor, 611 W. Ottawa, in Kansas City, Mo. Served as a managing director and strategic Lansing, MI 48933-1070 claims officer for Swiss Re. Was promoted to the position of global Phone: 517-335-5834 Fax: 517-373-4870 head of key case management and moved to Swiss Re’s global head- E-mail: [email protected] quarters in Zurich. Earned his bachelor’s at Southeast Missouri State Total Direct Premium: www.michigan.gov/ofir $52 Billion University and earned an MBA at Saint Louis University. Graduated Total Revenue: Background: Attorney; former vice president from the Washington University School of Law with a juris doctorate $32 Million of legal and regulatory affairs, Michigan Credit in May 1990. Domestic Insurers: 152 Union League; former assistant attorney gen- Total Insurers: 1,658 eral. Began career in the legislative process STATE AUDITOR’S OFFICE working for a state representative. Monica J. Lindeen, Montana State Auditor, Commissioner of Insurance & Securities DEPARTMENT 840 Helena Ave., Helena, MT 59601 OF COMMERCE Phone: 406-444-2040 Fax: 406-444-3497 Glenn Wilson, Commerce Commissioner www.csi.mt.gov 85 7th Place East, Suite 500, Background: Businesswoman; served four St. Paul, MN 55101-2198 terms in the Montana State Legislature; Phone: 651-296-6025 Fax: 651-282-2568 Total Direct Premium: served in a variety of leadership roles; works www.insurance.mn.gov $4 Billion Total Revenue: on bipartisan efforts concerning economic Background: Former vice president of U.S. $69 Million development policy. Total Direct Premium: Bank Home Mortgage and chief executive officer Domestic Insurers: 62 $30 Billion Total Insurers: 1,506 Total Revenue: and chairman of Knutson Mortgage. Appointed $370 Million as president of Ginnie Mae in 1985 by President Domestic Insurers: 169 Ronald Reagan. Served on founding committee DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Insurers: 1,509 of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Ann Frohman, Director a legal-documents database now being implemented nationally. Terminal Building, 941 O St., Suite 400, Lincoln, NE 68508-3639

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Phone: 402-471-2201 Fax: 402-471-2990 DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE E-mail: [email protected] Morris Chavez, Superintendent www.doi.ne.gov P.O. Box 1269, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1269 Background: Worked at the Nebraska Depart- Phone: 505-827-4299 Fax: 505-827-4106 ment of Insurance for more than 15 years. Was www.nmprc.state.nm.us/id.htm appointed director in November 2007 and previ- Background: Currently serves on the Executive ously served as general counsel and staff attorney, Committee of the National Association of Insur- as well as on committees of the National Asso- ance Commissioners and is the national chair of Total Direct Premium: ciation of Insurance Commissioners. Also worked Total Direct Premium: the Consumer Liaison Committee and the Title $9 Billion $10 Billion as the state’s risk manager within the Nebraska Insurance Working Group. Served as New Mexico Total Revenue: Total Revenue: $89 Million Department of Administrative Services from 1997 $198 Million State Gaming Representative from 2004 to 2006 Domestic Insurers: 100 until January 2000. Received her law degree from Domestic Insurers: 22 for Gov. Bill Richardson, where he was responsible Total Insurers: 1,560 the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Total Insurers: 1,357 for monitoring compliance of the 2001 Tribal/State Gaming Compacts. Prior to this, worked in the insurance and financial DIVISION OF INSURANCE services industry. Active member of the State Bar of New Mexico and past- Scott Kipper, Insurance Commissioner president and board member of the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association. 788 Fairview Drive, Suite 300, Carson City, NV 89701 DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Phone: 775-687-4270 Fax: 775-687-3937 James J. Wrynn, Superintendent www.doi.state.nv.us 25 Beaver St., New York, NY 10004-2319 Background: Named Commissioner Dec. 29, Phone: 212-480-6400 Fax: 212-480-2310 2008 after serving two years as Insurance Admin- www.ins.state.ny.us Total Direct Premium: istrator of the Insurance Division. Former Background: Previously served as the executive $12 Billion Total Revenue: deputy commissioner at the Office of Health Insur- director of the New York State Insurance Fund. $278 Million ance, Louisiana Department of Insurance, and Was a founding partner in the law firm of MacKay Domestic Insurers: 167 senior regional director for state affairs, America’s Total Direct Premium: Wrynn & Brady. Has 25 years’ experience as a Total Insurers: 1,803 $155 Billion Health Insurance Plans. Business administration Total Revenue: $2 Billion trial attorney. Wrynn is admitted to the federal degree, University of . Domestic Insurers: 611 and state courts in New York and Total Insurers: 1,675 and the Supreme Court of the . INSURANCE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT Roger A. Sevigny, Insurance Commissioner OF INSURANCE 21 South Fruit St., Suite 14, Wayne Goodwin, Commissioner of Insurance Concord, NH 03301 1201 Mail Service Center, Phone: (603) 271-2261 Fax: (603) 271-1406 Raleigh, NC 27699-1201 www.nh.gov/insurance Phone: 919-733-3058 Fax: 919-733-6495 Background: Prior to joining the New Hampshire www.ncdoi.com Total Direct Premium: Insurance Department, worked at Travelers Insur- Background: Prior to being elected, served $8 Billion ance for more than 30 years in several technical Total Direct Premium: as the assistant insurance commissioner for Total Revenue: $38 Billion $97 Million and management positions. Active member of Total Revenue: nearly four years. Also served in the North Domestic Insurers: 45 the National Association of Insurance Commis- $566 Million Carolina House of Representatives. Serves as Total Insurers: 1,019 sioners and previously served as president. Domestic Insurers: 88 state fire marshal and as the state chair of the Total Insurers: 1,435 Safe Kids North Carolina and as a member of NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF numerous commissions and boards. BANKING & INSURANCE Tom Considine*, Insurance Commissioner DEPARTMENT P.O. Box 325, Trenton, NJ 08625-0325 OF INSURANCE Phone: 609-292-5360 Fax: 609-292-5273 Adam W. Hamm, Commissioner Total Direct Premium: $59 Billion www.state.nj.us/dobi/index.html 600 E. Boulevard, Bismarck, ND 58505-0320 Total Revenue: Background: Considine was vice president Phone: 701-328-2440 Fax: 701-328-4880 $524 Million and government relations counsel at insurer www.nd.gov/ndins Domestic Insurers: 110 MetLife Inc. A lawyer, he joined MetLife in Background: Former state’s attorney and Total Insurers: 1,338 1993. In his position with MetLife, Considine private practice attorney specializing in com- oversaw a broad range of state government relations and public Total Direct Premium: mercial litigation, administrative agency law $4 Billion policy issues for both the financial services and auto and home com- Total Revenue: $47 Million and transportation law. panies nationally. Domestic Insurers: 39 *Nominated by Gov. Chris Christie; subject to state senate approval. Total Insurers: 1,426

Best’s Review • february 2010 • REPRINT Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: as Oregon insurance administrator from May $83 Billion Mary Jo Hudson, Director Total Revenue: 2000 to June 2007. Served as secretary-trea- 50 West Town St., Third Floor, Suite 300, $885 Million surer (2003-2004) and vice president (2004- Columbus, OH 43215-1067 Domestic Insurers: 288 2005) of the National Association of Insurance Phone: 614-644-2658 Fax: 614-644-3743 Total Insurers: 1,822 Commissioners. Professional career spans 25 www.ohioinsurance.gov years in consumer protection activities, initially in the nonprofit sec- Background: Practiced law for 19 years, most tor and since 1995, as an insurance regulator. A graduate of St. Olaf recently with the Columbus offices of Bailey College, Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Law School. Total Direct Premium: Cavalieri LLC, focusing on insurance regulation $56 Billion OFFICE OF THE Total Revenue: and liquidation law, consumer law compliance, $502 Million commercial lending, state and federal advertis- COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE Domestic Insurers: 261 ing law and general corporate matters. Served Ramón Cruz-Colón, Commissioner Total Insurers: 1,770 as an attorney with the Ohio Department of B5 Tabonuco St., Suite 216, PMB 356, Insurance and Office of the Ohio Insurance Liquidator. Also served for Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968-3049 two years as a member of City Council in Columbus, Ohio, where she Phone: 787-722-8686 Fax: 787-273-6365 served as Chair of the Jobs and Economic Development Committee. www.ocs.gobierno.pr/ocspr/ Background: Appointed by Governor Fortuno DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE in January 2009. Worked at the Office of the Commissioner of Insur- Kim Holland, Commissioner ance, where he held many positions, including director of the con- 2401 NW 23rd St., Suite 28, sumer services division, aide to the commissioner and chief deputy Oklahoma City, OK 73107 commissioner. Also worked as operations manager, human resources Phone: 405-521-2668 Fax: 405-521-6635 manager and allied lines department manager at Federal Insurance www.oid.ok.gov Co. from 1989 to 1996. Background: First woman elected insurance commissioner in Oklahoma. Widely recognized DIVISION OF INSURANCE Total Direct Premium: as one of the top employee benefits specialists Joseph Torti III, Superintendent $14 Billion 1511 Pontiac Ave., Building 69-2, Total Revenue: in the state. Former chair and member of the $182 Million Oklahoma State Employees’ Benefits Council Cranston, RI 02920 Domestic Insurers: 84 and the Emergency Medical Services Author- Phone: 401-462-9520 Fax: 401-462-9602 Total Insurers: 1,584 ity. Serving as 2010 NAIC secretary/treasurer. E-mail: [email protected] www.dbr.state.ri.us OREGON INSURANCE DIVISION Background: Served more than 20 years , Administrator Total Direct Premium: with the Insurance Division, beginning as a $7 Billion of the Insurance Division Total Revenue: senior examiner. Graduated cum laude from P.O. 14480, Salem, OR 97309-0405 $99 Million Providence College with a degree in business Phone: 503-947-7980 Fax: 503-378-4351 Domestic Insurers: 34 administration specializing in accounting. Is www.insurance.oregon.gov Total Insurers: 1,265 a certified public accountant and certified Background: Joined Insurance Division July 1, financial examiner. Chairs the National Association of Insurance Com- 2008, and became acting administrator four missioners’ financial standards and accreditation committee, among Total Direct Premium: months later. Previously served as an assistant other posts. $20 Billion Total Revenue: attorney general at the Oregon Department of $63 Million Justice, where she handled consumer protection Domestic Insurers: 44 cases. Before that, served as Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Total Insurers: 1,532 legislative director for more than two years. Scott H. Richardson, Director Graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and Willamette University Col- 1201 Main St., Columbia, SC 29201 lege of Law. Member of the Oregon State Bar since 2002. Worked as a 803-737-6160 Fax: 803-737-6229 lobbyist for The Tresidder Company. Prior to joining the governor’s staff, E-mail: [email protected] did governmental affairs work for Portland General Electric. www.doi.sc.gov Background: Appointed director of the South INSURANCE DEPARTMENT Total Direct Premium: Carolina Department of Insurance in February $18 Billion Joel S. Ario, Commissioner Total Revenue: 2007. Served in the state Senate from 2000- 1326 Strawberry Square, $178 Million 2007 and the state House of Representatives Harrisburg, PA 17120 Domestic Insurers: 209 from 1992-1996. Worked as an insurance Phone: 717-783-0442 Fax: 717-772-1969 Total Insurers: 1,887 agent with Carswell of Carolina Insurance www.insurance.pa.gov Agency for 21 years and was an owner/partner from 1985-1999. Background: Served as acting commissioner Graduated with a B.A. in Psychology, with honors, from the University until he was confirmed in July 2007. Served of in 1974.

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SOUTH DAKOTA DIVISION OF INSURANCE Office of Veterans’ Affairs from 1999-2001 and served as adminis- Merle D. Scheiber, Director trator of St. Croix from 2001-2006. Resigned to announce candidacy 445 East Capitol Ave., Pierre, SD 57501 for lieutenent governor, his new position. Holds a variety of positions Phone: 605-773-3563 Fax: 605-773-5369 within community service organizations. E-mail: [email protected] www.state.sd.us/drr2/reg/insurance DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Background: Has worked in underwriting, Kent Michie, Insurance Commissioner marketing, reinsurance and agency relations 3110 State Office Building, Total Direct Premium: for several companies in for Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6901 $5 Billion Total Revenue: 25 years. Managerial positions in personal Phone: 801-538-3800 Fax: 801-538-3829 $73 Million and commercial lines. A certified insurance www.insurance.utah.gov Domestic Insurers: 46 counselor. Was named PIA Company Repre- Background: Has 35 years experience in Utah Total Insurers: 1,439 sentative of the Year in 2001 and Sioux Falls business, with 16 years as vice president of Fastpitch Coach of the Year in 1997. Total Direct Premium: Zion’s Bank Public Finance. Served as state $11 Billion Total Revenue: financial adviser since 1984. Served for 20 TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF $164 Million years in the Utah National Guard as command COMMERCE & INSURANCE Domestic Insurers: 164 sergeant major of the 142nd Military Intel- Leslie A. Newman, Commissioner Total Insurers: 1,779 ligence Battalion. Davy Crockett Tower, Fifth Floor, 500 James Robertson Parkway, Nashville, TN 37243-0565 DEPARTMENT OF BANKING, Phone: 615-741-6007 Fax: 615-532-6934 INSURANCE, SECURITIES AND HEALTH E-mail: [email protected] CARE ADMINISTRATION www.state.tn.us/commerce/insurance/index.html Paulette Thabault, Commissioner of Total Direct Premium: Background: An attorney at the Nashville firm Banking, Insurance, Securities and $27 Billion Total Revenue: of Farmer and Luna. Appointed by Gov. Phil Health Care Administration $453 Million Bredesen, for whom she worked previously 89 Main St., Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Domestic Insurers: 62 when he was mayor of Nashville. Was associ- Phone: 802-828-3301 Fax: 802-828-3306 Total Insurers: 1,594 Total Direct Premium: ate metropolitan attorney for the Metropolitan $3 Billion www.bishca.state.vt.us Nashville Department of Law from 1994-2000. As a member of the Total Revenue: Background: Thabault is a small-business law firm Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis from mid-2000 until early $70 Million owner, nurse practitioner and attorney. Served 2003, she chaired the land use and zoning and the state and local Domestic Insurers: 581 as deputy commissioner for Health Care government subgroups. Graduate of Johns Hopkins University; earned Total Insurers: 1,583 Administration at BISHCA from 2003 through her law degree from the Washington University School of Law. 2005 and has many years of experience working in the field of health care consulting. TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Mike Geeslin, Insurance Commissioner STATE CORPORATION P.O. Box 149104, Austin, TX 78701 COMMISSION BUREAU OF INSURANCE Phone: 512-463-6464 Fax: 512-475-2005 Alfred W. Gross, Insurance Commissioner E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 1157, Richmond, VA 23218 www.tdi.state.tx.us Phone: 804-371-9741 Fax: 804-371-9873 Background: Deputy commissioner for policy, www.scc.virginia.gov/division/boi/ 2003-2005. Has overseen and coordinated imple- Background: Joined the bureau in 1981. Total Direct Premium: mentation of major insurance reforms directed by Promoted to deputy commissioner of financial $101 Billion the legislature. Budget and policy adviser on insur- Total Direct Premium: regulation section in 1989. Named acting Total Revenue: $2 Billion $37 Billion Domestic Insurers: 459 ance and regulatory matters to governor’s office Total Revenue: $468 commissioner in May 1996; formally named Total Insurers: 2,030 and lieutenant governor’s office. Million commissioner in July 1996. Domestic Insurers: 62 U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS SOUTHEASTERN ZONE Total Insurers: 1,719 DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND INSURANCE Gregory R. Francis, Lieutenant THE WASHINGTON STATE OFFICE OF Governor/Insurance Commissioner THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER 18 Kongens Gade, Charlotte Amalie, , Commissioner St. Thomas, VI 00802 P.O. Box 40255, Olympia, WA 98504-0255 360-725-7100 360-586-3109 Phone: 340-774-2991 Fax: 340-774-6953 Phone: Fax: www.ltg.gov.vi http://www.insurance.wa.gov Served 16 years in the Washington Background: Served in the military for 27 years. The director of the Background: Legislature and one term in the U.S. House of

Best’s Review • february 2010 • REPRINT Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. Total Direct Premium: $31 Billion Representatives. Doctor of optometry, with operated a government consulting firm, and served as commissioner Total Revenue: $451 Million 20 years’ experience as practicing optom- of the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles and deputy commissioner of Domestic Insurers: 56 etrist. Former regional director, U.S. Depart- the Division of Highways. Total Insurers: 1,475 ment of Health and Human Services. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE WASHINGTON D.C. DEPARTMENT OF Sean Dilweg, Commissioner INSURANCE, SECURITIES AND BANKING P.O. Box 7873, Madison, WI 53707-7873 Gennet Purcell, Insurance Commissioner Phone: 608-267-1233 Fax: 608-261-8579 810 First St. NE, Suite 701, www.oci.wi.gov Washington, DC 20002 Background: Executive assistant to the secre- Phone: 202-727-8000 Fax: 202-535-1196 tary, Wisconsin Department of Administration, www.disr.dc.gov/disr 2003-2006; director of policy analysis, Essie Background: Previously served as the deputy Total Direct Premium: Consulting Group, 2000-2003; clerk, Senate $30 Billion Total Direct Premium: commissioner for DISB. Purcell is an attorney and Committee on Environment and Energy, 1995 $9 Billion Total Revenue: Total Revenue: member of both the State of Maryland Bar and the $197 Million to 2000; masters in public administration, La $75 Million Commonwealth of Virginia Bar. Was a partner in a Domestic Insurers: $382 Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University Domestic Insurers: 145 privately owned law firm where her areas of practice Total Insurers: 2,014 of Wisconsin–Madison, 1998; B.A., English, Total Insurers: 1,456 included estate planning, insurance claims law and Lawrence University, 1989. bond financing. Purcell earned her undergraduate degree from York Uni- versity and her juris doctor degree from Howard University School of Law. WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE Ken Vines, Insurance Commissioner WEST VIRGINIA OFFICES OF 106 East 6th Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82002 THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER Phone: 307-777-7401 Fax: 307-777-2446 Jane L. Cline, Commissioner http://insurance.state.wy.us P.O. Box 50540, Charleston, WV 25305-0540 Background: Served as deputy insurance Phone: 304-558-3354 Fax: 304-558-0412 commissioner from 1992 to 2002. Before www.wvinsurance.gov that, practiced law at Vines, Gusea and Background: Elected 2010 president Total Direct Premium: White in Cheyenne. Also served as an assis- $2 Billion of the National Association of Insurance Total Revenue: tant attorney general in the Wyoming Attor- Total Direct Premium: Commissioners after serving as president- $25 Million ney General’s Office. Received his bach- $8 Billion Domestic Insurers: 5 Total Revenue: elect in 2009. Also is chair of the NAIC elor’s degree and juris doctorate from the Total Insurers: 1,424 $495 Million Interstate Insurance Products Regulation University of Wyoming. Domestic Insurers: 24 Commission. Appointed West Virginia Total Insurers: 1,394 insurance commissioner in 2001. Previously Canada Provincial Officials in Charge of Insurance Affairs ALBERTA FINANCE MANITOBA FINANCE Dennis Gartner, Superintendent of Insurance, Jim Scalena, Superintendent Financial Institutions and Pensions of Financial Institutions Room 402, Terrace Building 9515-107 St. 1115-405 Broadway Ave. Edmonton, Alberta T5K 2C3 Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 3L6 Phone: 780-422-1592 Fax: 780-420-0752 Phone: 204-945-2542 Fax: 204-948-2268 www.finance.gov.ab.ca www.gov.mb.ca/finance/cca/firb

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS COMMISSION DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND DEPARTMENT OF C. Michael Grist, Deputy Superintendent, CONSUMER AFFAIRS, INSURANCE GOVERNMENTAL SERVICES Insurance and Pensions Deborah McQuade, Winston Morris, Superintendent of Insurance Suite 1200, 13450 102nd Ave Superintendent of Insurance Confederation Building, 2nd Floor, West Block Surrey, British Columbia V3T 5X3 Centennial Building, P.O. Box 6000 P.O. Box 8700, St. John’s, Phone: 604-953-5300 Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5H1 Newfoundland and Labrador A1B 4J6 Fax: 604-953-5301 Phone: 506-462-2512 Fax: 506-453-7435 Phone: 709-729-2570 Fax: 709-729-4151 http://www.fic.gov.bc.ca/ www.gnb.ca/index-e.asp www.gs.gov.nl.ca

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