NCOIL President Announces Committee Leaders

Florida State Sen. Steven A. Geller, recently elected president of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), today named several leading state lawmakers as chair of key NCOIL committees and subcommittees in 2004.

The appointees will serve until the end of his term as NCOIL president in November 2004:

— Rep. Mark Young, chair of the Commerce Committee, Vermont House of Representatives, will chair the NCOIL International Insurance Issues Committee.

— Rep. George Keiser, chair of the Industry Business and Labor Committee, North Dakota House of Representatives, will chair the NCOIL Property-Casualty Insurance Committee.

— Sen. James Seward, chair of the Standing Committee on Insurance, New York Senate, will chair the NCOIL State-Federal Relations Committee.

— Sen. Carroll Leavell, a member of the Corporation and Transportation Committee, New Mexico Senate, will chair the NCOIL Workers’ Compensation Insurance Committee.

— Rep. Greg Davids, chair of the Commerce, Jobs, and Economic Development Committee, Minnesota House of Representatives, will chair the NCOIL Life Insurance Committee.

— Sen. Geller also announced that Rep. Robert Damron, a member of the Committee on Banking and Insurance, Kentucky House of Representatives, will chair the Financial Services Subcommittee of the State-Federal Relations Committee.

— Rep. Mark Young, chair of the Commerce Committee, Vermont House of Representatives, will chair the Life Settlements Subcommittee of the Life Insurance Committee

— Assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun, member of the Insurance Committee, New York State Assembly, will chair the Task Force on Terrorism of the Executive Committee.