SCOTTDALE, AZ, (MPG) – The Nation’s premier legislator-led insurance public policy organization, the National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) elected CA Assemblyman Ken Cooley President for the next year.

“I am proud of the bipartisan friendships and solutions that NCOIL promotes, and I consider it a great honor to be asked to take on duties as NCOIL President during 2022” stated Cooley.

NCOIL is a national legislative organization with the Nation’s 50 states as members, represented principally by legislators serving on their states’ insurance and financial institutions committees. NCOIL writes Model Laws in insurance and financial services, works to preserve the State jurisdiction over insurance as established by the McCarren-Ferguson Act seventy six years ago, and to serve as an educational forum for public policymakers and interested parties. Founded in 1969, NCOIL works to assert the prerogative of legislators in making State policy when it comes to insurance and educate State legislators on current and longstanding insurance issues.

“Ken’s unique background has made him nationally respected among his lawmaker peers in the 50 states for his collaborative style and thoughtful insurance public policy insights,” said In House Majority Leader Matt Lehman, who concluded his term as NCOIL’s President at the Annual Meeting.

Cooley continued, as a national organization of state legislators, NCOIL focuses on helping legislators solve insurance availability and operation problems back home and this makes its meetings very practical and bipartisan. NCOIL is the only national public policy organization I’ve been active with as a California Assemblymember since 2013.

“Ken Cooley has proven, at NCOIL, the NAIC and in the CA legislature, to be one of the most insightful and thoughtful insurance minds in the country. He is the perfect leader for NCOIL at this time of unprecedented disruption in insurance public policy,” said NCOIL CEO Commissioner Tom Considine.

“I look forward to maintaining NCOIL’s strong tradition of collegial problem solving,” Cooley concluded.