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Developed managerial strategies that
- helped found and guide the growth of the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers (AFGI), a trade association representing the financial guaranty industry;
- contributed to a 60 percent growth in the membership of the Industry Education Council to NCOIL (IEC) while significantly enhancing the visibility and credibility of the IEC by formalizing and expanding dialogue opportunities for IEC members and legislators;
- served as the catalyst for growth of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) as a major player in important public policy discussions and decisions affecting insurance; and
- helped found and guide the initial growth of the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS) an organization of state legislators that has contributed substantially to public policy dialogues on issues involving Internet wagering, Native American gaming, state lotteries and pari-mutuel racing.
The company has also
- planned and conducted successful conferences and other types of meetings and events, including a London conference for institutional investors and others on behalf of AFGI;
- facilitated the financial guaranty insurance industry’s response to a variety of calls for financial and other data; and
- managed and raised funds for foundations supporting the work of NCOIL and NCLGS.
Lobbied successfully for
- enactment of financial guaranty insurance laws in New York, California and Connecticut, which were the nation’s first risk-based capital laws, and which established financial guaranty as a separate insurance line;
- amendment of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Financial Guaranty Insurance Model Act to comport with twenty years of changes in New York and California law;
- amendment of New York law, expanding investment authority of financial guaranty insurers;
- amendment of New York law, expanding on the permissible investments of title insurers;
- amendment of New York law, changing the unearned premium reserve requirement of title insurers; and
- adoption by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) of a resolution to alert state lawmakers to initiatives that would repeal the confidentiality provisions of state risk-based capital laws as they apply to medical malpractice liability insurers.
In the broader government affairs arena, delivered testimony, speeches and reports before key committees of Congress, state legislatures, professional organizations and others, including the
- The California Assembly Insurance Committee
- The Florida House Insurance Committee
- The Florida Senate Insurance Committee
- The New York Assembly Insurance Committee
- The National Association of Life Companies
- The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
- The Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals
- The Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals, Southwest Region
- The Council of State Governments
- The National Conference of State Legislatures
- The National Conference of Insurance Legislators
- The Griffith Foundation Seminar for Insurance Committee Chairs
- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners
- The Insurance Information Institute
- National Association of Insurance Women (International) San Francisco Chapter
Implemented successful media relations strategies and actions including
- development and placement of hundreds of news stories and feature articles in mainstream and trade media;
- facilitation of access to editorial boards; and
- development of several annual reports for corporate and government clients.
The company and Bob Mackin have spearheaded and authored several significant studies and landmark reports and books, including
- Taxation of Multistate E&S Placements: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, on behalf of the Excess Line Association of New York;
- Rising Waters, Mounting Challenge — Flood Prevention, Protection and Assistance, a report on the National Flood Insurance Program, published under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and NCOIL;
- the first 19 annual editions of the Insurance Legislative Fact Book and Almanac, published for NCOIL;
- two annual volumes on insurance legislation, published by Commerce Clearing House;
- a major work on insurance investment law, published by NILS Publishing Company; and
- several studies for the National Conference of Insurance Legislators including:
Laws to Stop Rising Car Insurance Costs;
Can Any of These Laws Solve This Problem?;
Closing the Regulatory Time Warp;
Risk, Reality and Reason in Financial Services Deregulation; and
The NAIC Solvency Accreditation Process — A Background Review.
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