Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Insurance Commissioner Andrew N. Mais will be retiring from state service effective November 28, 2025 after six years of service in the role.
Additionally, the governor announced that he is nominating Josh Hershman to succeed Mais. Hershman is a former deputy insurance commissioner who currently serves as chief executive officer of the Immigrant Life Insurance Co. of America and as executive director of openIDL.
Hershman will serve in the role in an interim capacity until Lamont formally submits his nomination to the General Assembly for its consideration at the start of the 2026 regular session in February.
Mais has served as the commissioner since February of 2019. During his tenure at CID, Mais focused on ensuring that Connecticut consumers have the resources they need to adequately protect themselves and their properties and mitigate their risk. This includes through the establishment of the Connecticut Severe Weather Mitigation and Resiliency Advisory Council in 2024, which is focused on helping homeowners and businesses maintain more resilient properties.
Mais just recently completed his term as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nationwide regulatory support organization for insurance commissioners. Mais also served as vice chair of its executive committee at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).’
“Connecticut has one of the largest insurance industries of any state in the nation, and Commissioner Mais has actively worked to achieve the crucial balance necessary to ensure that consumers are protected and have access to affordable and reliable insurance coverage, while at the same time supporting the continued growth of this sector of our economy,” Lamont said.
Prior to being approved by lawmakers to be the state’s insurance regulator, Maiz specialized in insurance regulation at the Deloitte Center for Financial Services in Stamford, where he started work in 2011. Prior to that, he was a director at the New York State Insurance Department, where he served four governors as part of the department’s senior leadership team.
As CEO of the Immigrant Life Insurance Co., a Connecticut-domiciled and wholly owned subsidiary of IDT Corp., Hershman helped build an admitted-market life insurance carrier designed to close the coverage gap faced by immigrant families.
He is also executive director of openIDL, a Linux Foundation project modernizing data exchange through creating data standards across the insurance industry. In addition, through HIJ Advising, he advises organizations on insurance, regulatory compliance, legal strategy, and operational efficiency.
From 2019 to 2022, Hershman was deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of Connecticut Insurance Department, focused on AI’s impact on insurance, data-driven regulatory modernization, and innovation across the industry. Prior to his public service, he practiced law with a focus on complex business planning and litigation.
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