Troutman Sanders Strategies’ (TSS) highly skilled Insurance Team advocates clients’ public policy positions before all government bodies, including federal government, state legislatures and the public arena.
Our team brings decades of experience and is well-poised to deliver sound government relations, legislative action and insurance regulation representation and advocacy for property, casualty, life and health insurance, as well as reinsurance. Furthermore, we understand the sensitive regulatory environment in which insurers operate and are prepared to navigate any hindrances to success.
Our proficiency in the insurance arena is exemplified by our achievement of the following client initiatives:
- Passage of legislation removing prior approval requirement for private passenger automobile rates
- Approval of a debt-cancellation model act during the 2008 Georgia General Assembly
- Ratification of legislation establishing confidentiality provisions in Insurance Department for market conduct examinations
- Adoption of legislation establishing education requirements for obtaining licensing as a title insurance agent
- Implementation of Graham Leach Bliley amendments in Virginia and secured authority for the commercial deregulation of large commercial risks
Our years of experience providing government relations support in the insurance industry, complemented by our reach in various state markets has provided us with an extensive network of contacts. Among them include the Georgia Insurance Department, Georgia Commissioner John Oxendine, the Georgia legislature, including members of both the House and Senate insurance committees, and the Virginia Bureau of Insurance.
The firm provides strategic counsel to a national property and casualty insurance trade association, national and local carriers, agencies and state land title associations.
