Wisconsin’s Nygren Receives NAMIC’s State Legislator of Year Award

The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Wisconsin state Rep. John Nygren for his support of free-market principles and strong positions to improve the insurance market in the state. The award was presented at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Association of Mutual Insurance Companies.

Nygren is co-chair of the Joint Committee on Finance, which oversees the state budget and all state taxation and expenditure policy matters. He authored the Consumer Choice in Auto Insurance Act and led the effort to reduce the non-resident agent appointment fee, which was one of the highest in the nation. He also was key to the passage of the historic tort reform measures of the last two sessions of the Legislature.

Other pro-insurance-consumer bills he helped pass include legislation to crack down on storm scammers, facilitate the electronic proof of auto insurance coverage, and enable consumers to choose and companies to provide electronic delivery of insurance documents.

The NAMIC Legislator of the Year Award is a statuette of Benjamin Franklin, who founded the first successful mutual insurance company in America more than 250 years ago. That company, the Philadelphia Contributionship for Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, is still thriving as The Contributionship Companies and remains a NAMIC member today.

Source: NAMIC

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