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We provide boutique level service. We specialize in association management, lobbying, media relations, and research and analysis.
We are a hands-on company providing the highest level of service to our clients, big or small. We get involved with clients and their projects. We develop quality strategic plans, reports, testimony, speeches, and letters known for their clarity, substance and accuracy.
We know how to build organizations and alliances, achieve legislative goals, help people manage media relations, and execute research projects.
Over the years, Mackin & Company has developed solid relationships with legislative leadership and insurance committee chairs and staffs in New York and across the country. We can also access key people in the trade and mainstream media.
Mackin & Company, among other things, manages the Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers (AFGI), an international trade association representing the financial guaranty industry. Mackin & Company helped found AFGI in 1986. We helped develop and lobby the enactment of the state laws that now govern the industry. The company has participated in successful lobbying and educational efforts on behalf of the industry before the Legislatures and Insurance Departments in California, Connecticut, Florida, New York, and other states, the NAIC, NCOIL, as well as Congress and Executive Branch agencies including the Treasury and the SEC. The company has facilitated the industry's response to a variety of calls for financial and other data, often aggregating or analyzing data to enhance its usefulness.
The company administers the Industry Education Council to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (IEC). The IEC is an association of insurance companies, brokers, agents, trade associations, and law firms dedicated to educating state legislators on insurance and financial market issues. The IEC includes such organizations as Aflac, Allstate, American Insurance Association, Assurant, Geico, Hannover Re, International Underwriting Association of London, New York Insurance Association, New York Life Insurance Company, PIA, Prudential, the Reinsurance Association of America, State Farm, and Zurich.
Mackin & Company has developed landmark research reports that led to substantive reforms in auto insurance cost containment, solvency regulation, tort reform, and financial guaranty and title insurance, and have contributed to ongoing discussions relating to state vs. federal regulation of insurance, particularly regarding improving coordination between states in insurance regulation and taxation. Most recently, the company authored "Taxation of Multistate E&S Placements: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis," on behalf of the Excess Line Association of New York.
Mackin & Company has helped an organization of local officials access editorial boards.
Mackin & Company also managed the National Conference of Insurance Legislators
(NCOIL), enabling the Conference to grow from an exclusively education-oriented group to an effective voice in the making of public policy in the states and in Washington. The Company oversaw the development of cutting-edge model laws, including commercial insurance lines regulatory modernization enacted in more than 24 states and insurance credit scoring model legislation enacted in more than 26 states. Mackin & Company also helped NCOIL develop a Market Conduct Surveillance Model Law, adoption of which followed extensive research and the development of broad industry, legislative, and regulatory consensus. Mackin & Company raised more than $300,000 for the research that served as the basis for that model.
Mackin & Company helped launch the National Council of Legislators from Gaming
States (NCLGS). The company's body of work in this area includes a document identifying issues likely to arise in state-tribal negotiations over Indian gaming, a report on unclaimed state lottery prize money, and a model law that addresses issues in charitable gaming.
Mackin & Company has also been active in publishing. It founded the Insurance
Legislative Fact Book & Almanac, a directory of state and Congressional policymakers responsible for insurance and financial services regulation. According to Government Finance Review, the Almanac is "a wealth of information for those seeking to make, affect, or administer the laws that govern insurance markets."
The company also developed two annual volumes on important state legislation affecting insurers and markets entitled State Insurance Legislation: Highlights of Significant Legislation Affecting Insurers and Markets, and Property & Casualty Insurance State Legislation: Highlights of Significant Legislation Affecting Insurers and Markets, and Comply, a two-volume work in state insurance investment law, published by the NILS Publishing Company.
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