Daniel Watkins

Dan Watkins practices law in Lawrence, Kansas, serving regional and national clients in business matters and governmental affairs with a specialty in receivership proceedings involving financially troubled insurance companies. He has a Certified Insurance Resolutions Director designation by the International Association of Insurance Receivers and has managed numerous insurance receiverships over the past 25 years. Currently he serves as Special Deputy Receiver in two healthcare insurance company receiverships: CoOportunity Health (Iowa and Nebraska) and HealthyCT in Connecticut. He recently closed a Medical HMO receivership in the District of Columbia.

Watkins served in Kansas government prior to his private practice, as Chief of the Criminal Division in the Attorney General’s Office, Chief Counsel at the Kansas Department of Transportation, and as Chief of Staff to the Governor. He has chaired the Kansas Bioscience Authority and Kansas Development Finance Authority; served as Co-Chair of Economic Lifelines, a coalition of Kansans supporting transportation funding; and was a long-time member of the Board of the Mid-America MS Society. He has been active in civic affairs in Lawrence, chairing the Chamber of Commerce and community mental health organization Boards.

Watkins received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from St. Mary of the Plains College in 1969 and his law degree from the University of Kansas in 1975. He served as a VISTA volunteer and project supervisor in Broward County, Florida, from 1969–1972.