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Strategy & Management
Developed managerial strategies that 
  • helped found and guide the growth of the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers (AFGI), an association of eleven highly rated monoline insurers that transact virtually all the financial guaranty insurance written in the U.S. and a growing international market;
     
  • 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 which has contributed substantially to public policy dialogues on issues involving internet wagering, Native American gaming, state lotteries and pari-mutuel racing.  
     

Government Affairs
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 requiring the participation of only highly capitalized companies, and operating under stringent reserving requirements;
     
  • 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; 
     
  • amendment of New York law, expanding investment authority of financial guaranty insurers; and
     
  • adoption by the National Conference of Insurance Legislators 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. 
     

Communications: Documents
Prepared and publicized 

  • testimony and presentations before key committees of Congress and state legislatures;
     
  • speeches before national organizations; 
     
  • articles for newspapers, popular magazines of national circulation, and trade and professional journals; 
     
  • landmark research reports which led to substantive reforms; and
     
  • annual reports. 
     

Communications: In-Person Presentations
Delivered speeches, testimony and reports before 

  • 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
  • The Insurance Women of San Francisco 

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