ANGELINA BANKS

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PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT

Accomplished legal executive highly skilled in the property & casualty insurance regulatory arena.

Breadth and depth of knowledge gained from legal, regulatory, compliance, underwriting, and

government relations’ functional perspectives. Proven professional commitment and results-orientation

evidenced by professional and educational achievements, insurance industry certifications, affiliations,

and nominations.

• • • Claims

Regulatory liaison Market conduct examinations

• • • Underwriting

Regulatory compliance Dispute resolution

• • • NAIC working groups

Rates and loss costs filings Antitrust compliance

• • • Contract negotiation

Rate litigation Legislative monitoring

• • • General corporate matters

Manual rules and form filings Regulatory rule hearings

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consulting Attorney 2011 - Present

• Provide legal services to insurance carriers by utilizing breadth and depth of regulatory

experience, industry knowledge, academic achievements and professional certifications.

• Performed complex multistate research projects and compliance tools for USAA’s legal

department.

Senior Counsel, National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. 2006 – 2011

Responsible for legal support of the Regulatory Services Division, one of the company’s core operating

divisions.

• Key legal advisor to the teams responsible for NCCI manual rules, forms, and rate filings,

which consistently received at least a 95% approval rate on all filings.

• Successfully managed all legal challenges to NCCI rate filings to ensure adequate rates for the

industry.

• Effectively managed several market conduct examinations, none of which produced any

significant findings against the company.

• Participated in a NAIC working group charged with creating protocols for the examination of

advisory organizations; successfully convinced the working group to add language that, among other

things, limits the scope of examinations and protects the confidentiality of proprietary information.

• Managed a team responsible for the implementation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act

amendments by ensuring that the appropriate NCCI Rules and Policy Forms were filed despite

extremely tight deadlines, and obtaining 100% regulatory approval.

• Managed over 40 outside counsel to ensure regulatory approvals, successful litigation, and

effective legislative monitoring.

• Reduced outside counsel fees by 30% in one year by negotiating retainer agreements and

monitoring outside counsel invoices.

• Monitored company meetings, committee meetings, presentations, and other communications to

carriers to ensure compliance with state and federal antitrust laws.

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Regulatory Counsel, Assurant Solutions, Inc. 2001 – 2006

Responsible for positive relationships with various departments of insurance and ensuring compliance

with state and federal laws.

• Provided support to business units with legal opinions on regulatory and legislative changes, which

improved compliance by well over 50% within two years.

• Successfully worked with internal and external lobbyists achieving desired changes to regulatory and

legislative proposals with a success rate of more than 80%.

• Author of the Assurant Advisor, a national newsletter to stakeholders providing valuable information

on legislative and regulatory actions, political landscape, and more; continuously increased the

circulation and demand for the quarterly newsletter.

Compliance Analyst, CIGNA Dental Health, Inc. 1999 – 2001

Responsible for ensuring dental insurance plan documents were in compliance with state and federal laws

and managing market conduct and financial examinations.

• Improved the level of compliance in policies, marketing materials, and other plan documents by

keeping abreast of legislative and regulatory changes, and revising and implementing the changes

accordingly, which resulted in fewer questions from policyholders and regulators.

• Successfully improved coordination and communication process of the market conduct and financial

examinations with regulators. Timeliness and responsiveness to examiners' requests contributed

greatly in achieving a more cordial environment, and successful final examination report.

Staff Attorney, TresCom International, Inc. 1996 – 1998

Partnered with General Counsel on regulatory, contractual, corporate, and employment legal matters.

• Within six months, successfully applied for and obtained Secretary of State and regulatory approvals

to transact business in all fifty states, allowing the company to expand its operations nationally.

• Effectively negotiated numerous contracts, ensuring client’s legal interests were adequately protected.

• Meticulously maintained corporate documents and licenses, a major factor in the successful

acquisition of the company by a larger multinational telecommunications company.

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS, AFFILIATIONS

LL.M., Insurance Law - University of Connecticut (candidate, 2012)

M.S., Insurance Management - Boston University, 2009

J.D. - Nova Southeastern University, 1996

B.B.A. - Florida International University, 1993

Florida Bar, member since 1996

D.C. Bar, member since 1999

Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), 2007

Fellow of Life Management Institute (FLMI), 2004

Associate in Regulatory Compliance (ARC), 2002

CPCU Society, Regulatory and Legislative Interest Group Committee, 2009-present

CPCU Gold Coast Chapter - President, 2008-2009; Vice President 2007-2008

Delegate, People to People Ambassador Program – Insurance Delegation, Russia and Poland, 2008

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