The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Minnesota state Sen. James Metzen.
NAMIC said it honored Metzen for his support of free-market principles and taking strong positions to improve the insurance market in the state.
As chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, Metzen led a two-year effort to bring major attention to the issue of insurance fraud and its impact on Minnesota consumers. He appointed an interim Insurance Fraud Working Group, which heard from 70 witnesses and produced a matrix of issues for action to combat insurance fraud. This set the stage for a positive fraud reform bill in 2014 and led to a permanent Insurance Reform Subcommittee to formalize the debate for 2015 and beyond.
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 260 years ago.
Source: NAMIC
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