This seminar will showcase the history of insurance with an emphasis on milestones in regulation, beginning with Chinese merchants in 3000 BC and leading up to today’s world. Attendees will learn about events such as the great fire of London, the San Francisco earthquake and fires, the Chicago fire, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, the John Dingell Failed Promises report, the 9/11 events and Hurricane Katrina.

Eric C. Nordman, CPCU, CIE is Director of Research with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He supervises a wide range of insurance research, supporting NAIC committees, task forces and working groups. He previously held the position of NAIC Senior Regulatory Specialist with the NAIC prior to his appointment as Director of Research in 1997.

In his position Nordman supports a number of NAIC committees, task forces, and working groups on various topics. He provides expertise on loss costs, auto insurance, crop insurance, catastrophe issues, property insurance, workers’ compensation, electronic commerce, speed to market issues, terrorism reinsurance issues, medical malpractice issues, risk retention and other property and casualty issues. In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, he has been involved in the discussion and resolution regarding coverage issues related to acts of terrorism. Similarly, in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane season, he has been involved in discussions with the states and with the federal government regarding insurance issues in the face of national and human made catastrophes. He responds to questions by the various state insurance regulators, industry, trade, and consumer representatives. He provides advice on various matters relating to property and casualty insurance, and filing of rates and forms by insurers in the states.

Nordman was previously with the Michigan Insurance Bureau where is positions included included auto analyst, workers’ compensation analyst, director of the property and casualty section that regulated rates and forms submissions and deputy director of the commercial market standards division.

He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Michigan State University. Nordman has also received his CPCU from the American Institute for Property and Liability Underwriters, Inc. The Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society has granted Nordman its highest designation, that of Certified Insurance Examiner. He also has served on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Workers’ Compensation Health Initiative and was a member of the National Insurance Task Force of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. He served as Co-Chair and news letter editor of the CPCU Society’s Regulatory and Legislative Interest Section. He serves on the Workers’ Compensation Steering Committee and the Study Panel on National Data on Workers’ Compensation with the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Kathleen J. Robison, CPCU, ARM, AU, AIC, CPIW is a consultant with K Robi & Associates, LLC.  With over 35 years of professional property and casualty senior management experience in both the United States and Canada, she has progressed through all levels of claims adjusting and management. 

Prior to K Robi & Associates, she served as Vice-President, Claims and Operations at DaimlerChrysler Insurance Company, Vice-President of Claims for Bankers & Shippers a subsidiary of Travelers specializing in non-standard auto and property and Vice-President of Claims for Tri-State Insurance Co a member of the W.R. Berkley Group concentrating on grain elevators and schools in the mid-west.

Robison has served on numerous national insurance boards and committees. She has written articles for the Claims Quarterly and the Claims Magazine where she is a member of the editorial board. She has spoken and provided training courses throughout the United States on various claims topics and coverage issues.

Robison earned her B.A. from Western College and studied at the graduate level at the University of Illinois and Miami University. 

Jim Fryer, Ed.D., CPCU
Pearson VUE

Keith E. Langan, J.D., CPCU serves as Senior Counsel with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company/General Counsel's Office. He provides legal counsel on insurance underwriting and regulatory matter and is Designated Counsel for Commercial Business and Market Conduct Examinations. He is a member of the California State Bar, and admitted to practice in the federal courts in the Northern District of California. He holds membership in: Northern California Conference of Insurance Counsel; CPCU Society (Excess/Surplus/Specialty Lines, International Insurance, and Regulatory and Legislative Sections).

Langlan hold may honors and awards; is a member of the Golden Gate Chapter and has served as chairman of the Board of Directors (1998-2000), and president (1996-97) as well as many other offices. He serves professor of Insurance Law for the Empire College Law School; instructor for the Insurance Education Association for CPCU, INS and INTRO programs; and instructor for the Insurance School of the Pacific, lecturing to Japanese insurance executives on the impact of US insurance law and regulation on the business of insurance.

Langlan hold a BS, Business Administration, from the University of San Francisco (1978) and a J.D. from the Golden Gate University School of Law (1980.)

Ethan D. Lenz, J.D., CPCU is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the Insurance and Health Care Industry Teams, as well as the Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation Practice. Mr. Lenz's practice focuses on providing risk management and insurance coverage-related advice to many of the firm's commercial clients, including advice relative to the negotiation and structure of directors and officers liability insurance programs, and a wide variety of other commercial/professional insurance programs. He also provides counseling on insurance regulatory and insurance producer licensing matters for the firm's insurance industry clients. Additionally, he was a member of the legal staff of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company for a brief period, prior to returning to practice at Foley & Lardner.

Lenz is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin. He is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the American Bar Association (Business Law and Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice sections) and the Milwaukee Bar Association.

Lenz is the co-author of "Workers' Comp and Employer Liability Carriers in Jeopardy with Sexual Harassment Charges," published in Insurance Specialist, Second Quarter 1998. He is also a regular speaker on insurance-related topics, including current issues affecting directors and officers' liability insurance, other commercial insurance products and the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.

Lenz was named to the 2006 list of Wisconsin Super Lawyers – Rising Stars by Law & Politics Media, Inc. for his insurance coverage work.

Lenz is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (J.D., magna cum laude, 1996) and the University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.B.A., with distinction, 1991), majoring in risk management and insurance. 

Joseph F. Bieniek, CPCU, ACP, CIC, ARC, AIS, AU, is Statistical Information Manager at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Before joining the NAIC in 2006, he spent nine years at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and over 20 years of his insurance career with the nation’s largest personal lines stock company. He has handled life, health and property and casualty business in various aspects.

Bieniek is a member of the Regulation and Legislative Sections Committee of the CPCU Society. He currently serves as Secretary for the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals (AICP), when elected to the Secretary position he became the first regulator elected to an officer position of the AICP. He also is an elected board member of the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society (IRES).

Bieniek was the recipient of the 2002 Robert W. Lennon Award. This award is presented annually by the AICP to recipients who exemplify exceptional leadership, commitment and proactive involvement in the AICP. He also received the President's Award in 2001 from the AICP in recognition of his service and dedication to the AICP.

Bieniek has served in the capacity of President of the Great Lakes Chapter and national Membership Committee Co-Chair of the Society of State Filers; Education Chair and Director in the Northwest Chicago Chapter of the CPCU Society; Director and Secretary of the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society Foundation; Regional Director on the Board of Directors of AICP; President of the AICP New England Chapter; Chair at the national level of the AICP Government and Industry Relations Committee; Co-Chair at the national level of the AICP Community; Marketing Committee; Chair at the national level of the AICP Global Development Task Force; national Membership Committee Co-Chair of AICP at various times; Co-Chair and Consulting Chair at the national level of the Public Relations Committee; and Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Task Force at the AICP national level.

Bieniek received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree majoring in Economics from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater.

Robert H. Card, CPCU is Senior Regulatory Specialist with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC.). Prior to working for the NAIC, Mr. Card was employed by the Oklahoma Insurance Department as a rate analyst in the Property and Casualty Division from 1992 until 1998. U.S.F.&G. employed him as a commercial lines underwriter from 1977 to 1991. He received his CPCU in 1990 and has completed several examinations leading to the Chartered Life Underwriter designation. He supports workers’ compensation activities at the NAIC and has provided support for insurance regulator’s speed to market issues and the NAIC’s System for Electronic Rate and Form Filing (SERFF).

Card holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Central Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa.

Developed by the Regulatory and Legislative Interest Group