Legal Seminar Planning Begins
The Legal Seminar Planning Committee has begun preparations for NOLHGA’s 27th Legal Seminar, which will be held on July 11–12, 2019, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. An MPC meeting is scheduled for July 10.
This year’s Planning Committee will be chaired by Pamela Olsen (Nebraska) and includes Kermitt Brooks (AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company), Jack Falkenbach (Delaware), John Finston (Drinker Biddle & Reath), Pat Hughes (Faegre Baker Daniels), Catherine Masters (Schiff Hardin), Frank O’Loughlin (Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP), Keith Passwater (Anthem, Inc.), Margaret Sperry (Rhode Island), and Susan Voss (American Enterprise Group). The program is expected to include panels on federal and state insurance regulatory initiatives, the changing health insurance marketplace, domestic and international developments in the life and health insurance sectors, long-term-care insurance, guaranty system issues, emerging technologies and cybersecurity, litigation issues, and ethics.
NOLHGA has secured a room rate for this meeting of $279/night (one queen bed) and $309/night (two double beds or one king bed) plus tax at the Fairmont. Reservations can be made online or by contacting the hotel at 866.540.4417 and requesting the NOLHGA rate. Please contact Meg Melusen at [email protected] if you have any questions.
Staff Contact -Olsen Named New Executive Director of Minnesota GA
Pamela Epp Olsen, Administrator of the Nebraska Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association, has been named the new Executive Director of the Minnesota Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association by the association’s Board of Directors. She replaces former Executive Director Jerry Backhaus, who is retiring.
“We want to thank Jerry for his 26 years of outstanding service to the Minnesota Guaranty Association,” said Minnesota Association Board Chair Beth Byrne. “It’s difficult to picture the Association without Jerry, who has served the Association with excellence since 1993, but we are thrilled that Pamela will be taking over, and we have every confidence that the standard of service that our Association has established through the years will continue under her leadership.”
Backhaus will continue with the association through May 2019 to help with the transition.
Staff Contact - Sean McKenna