Lindsay Crawford

Lindsay Crawford joined NOLHGA in October 2024 as Assistant Vice President, Insolvency Management. In her role, Crawford provides advice to NOLHGA task forces and member associations with respect to diverse financial issues involved with the insolvent company, policy owners, and with the requirements of guaranty associations. Her duties include active participation in the development of strategies to address payment of statutory benefits to policyholders of insolvent insurers and working to ensure the successful resolution of multi-state insurance insolvencies by providing financial and project management, including support to specific task forces. Additionally, she analyzes, develops, recommends, and executes strategic options in insolvencies including runoff scenarios, assumption reinsurance, captive solutions, and other creative options.

Crawford joined NOLHGA after 16 years at the Nebraska Department of Insurance with experience as a financial analyst and reinsurance specialist, with over 9 years leading and managing the Financial Regulation Division as Deputy Chief Examiner and, most recently, Chief Financial Regulator. In her roles as Deputy and Chief, she was responsible for financial analysis, financial examinations, holding company transactions, supervisory colleges, actuarial reviews, company licensing, and the collection of premium tax in one of the country’s largest domestic insurance markets.

In addition, Crawford had considerable experience in important financial regulation work at the NAIC, including Vice Chair of the Risk-Focused Surveillance Working Group, the Valuation of Securities Task Force, and Group Solvency Issues Working Group and a member of various other task forces and working groups, including the Financial Analysis Working Group (FAWG), Reinsurance Task Force, and Receivership and Insolvency Task Force.

Crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Business–Accounting and Finance from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In addition, she is a Certified Financial Examiner (CFE) and is the current President of the Society of Financial Examiners (SOFE).