General Specialties:
Insurance
Credit Rating Agency
Specialty Focus:
Receivership, State Regulation, med-malpractice, Health, Mortgage Claims Practices, consumer complaints, life insurance and annuities, Property & Casualty, Personal and Commercial lines, credit rating methodologies.
Education:
BA, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Master’s in Public Administration, UW-Madison, WI
20 years of insurance experience, including 12 plus years of experience as an insurance executive. As Insurance Commissioner for Wisconsin, I oversaw the regulation. of all insurance in the state including health, life, property casualty, personal, commercial, mortgage, and bond insurers through the great recession.
Extensive receivership experience; placing the second largest financial guarantee insurer into partial receivership.
Extensive med-malpractice experience overseeing the state’s med-malpractice reinsurance fund for 4 years.
Extensive experience valuing insurance company finances, and securities through the NAIC’s Financial Condition Committee and the Securities Valuation Office, which is involved in valuing insurance company finances, and securities.
Health insurance experience: as Insurance Commissioner we worked with the federal government to create the Affordable Care Act. For 6 years I Served on the Board of Directors, the Finance Committee; Audit Committee; and Executive Committee for Meriter Health Systems, and Physicians Plus.
Credit rating agency experience – as an independent director for KBRA we would review and approve all rating methodologies used by the agency to rate a variety of financial instruments and public government entities.