® BEST’S REVIEW Commissioners February 2010 Regulatory/Law Regulator The 2010 Insurance Yearbook Commissioners 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 Arizona 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 ARKANSAS 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 insurance commissioner 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- ALASKA 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 CALIFORNIA 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 Michigan. Founder of SnapTrack, a company that devel- Total Direct Premium: $129 Billion oped life-saving technology to place GPS AMERICAN SAMOA 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 Stanford University; B.S. in electrical Third Floor, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799 engineering from the University of Texas. 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 COLORADO 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 GEORGIA 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 CONNECTICUT 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 GUAM 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 DELAWARE 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 HAWAII 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. IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE FLORIDA 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. Best’s ReView • FEBRUARy 2010 • REPRINT Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. Copyright © 2010 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted with Permission. Commissioners Regulatory/Law 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 KENTUCKY 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.