OCCUPATION: Paralegal/compliance analyst with over 30 years of experience

EDUCATION: B.A. Political Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University,

Madison, New Jersey (1978); also participated in Hartford College for Women's
Paralegal Certificate Program (note: took several courses there).
EXPERIENCE
2005-present-Legal consultant for Sequoia Insurance Company located in Monterey,
California. Responsibilities include working closely with General Counsel on r
egulatory compliance for all insurance and non-insurance subsidiaries; insurance
company licensing and creation of new insurance companies or non-insurance comp
anies; responsible for corporate secretarial function for all subsidiaries. Leg
al support for the Statutory Accounting area, including review of Annual Financi
al Statements.
Responsible for conducting legal research on a variety of topics, such as what c
onstitutes doing business, intercompany transactions among affilates, e.g. capi
tal contributions, loans, investments, sales, purchases, exchanges, extensions o
f credit; dividend declarations; merger, redomestication and acquisition provisi
ons; insurance company formation, dissolution, name changes; comparing and analy
zing lines of business definitions between and among states; intercompany agreem
ent provisions.
Preparation and filing of officer and director biographical affidavits; agent fo
r service of process compliance, insurance company start-ups, incorporations and
dissolutions.
1984-2003-Corporate Regulatory Specialist in the Law Department at The Hartford
Insurance Group, Hartford, Ct.
Responsiblities included: Insurance company mergers, acquisitions, public finan
cial offerings, start-ups. Along with two other individuals, responsible for th
e "spin-off" of Hartford Fire Insurance Company and its subsidiaries from ITT Co
rporation and taking the company public; responsible for the sale of Abbey Life
Insurance Group, a subsidiary group located in England; licensing both insuranc
e and non-insurance subsidiaries; company name changes, incorporations and disso
lutions; redomestications of insurance company subsidiaries from one state to an
other; mergers and name changes of insurance subsidiaries; regulatory compliance
for all insurance subsidiaries(eg Annual Holding Company filings, annual compan
y licensing requirements, ongoing compliance regarding inter-company agreements
and transactions, rates and policy forms filings, financial filings).
Advised different areas of company on compliance matters and financial examinati
ons (eg Investments, Controllers and Executive Row); provided all legal review o
f the Annual and Quarterly Financial Statements produced by Statutory Accounting
.
Responsible for all corporate secretarial functions for all subsidiaries, inclu
ding preparation of Board and Shareholder minutes and agendas for 13 insurance c
ompanies and 35 non-insurance companies; held the officer title of Assistant Se
cretary in 3 of the insurance company subsidiaries where I attended and particip
ated in Board of Directors meetings; responsible for purchase and installation o
f "Secretariat" corporate software program. Participated in holding several I
TT Annual Corporate Shareholder meetings at located at The Hartford.
Responsible for conducting legal research on a variety of topics, such as what c
onstitutes doing business, intercompany transactions among affilates, e.g. capi
tal contributions, loans, investments, sales, purchases, exchanges, extensions o
f credit; dividend declarations; merger, redomestication and acquisition provisi
ons; insurance company formation, dissolution, name changes; comparing and analy
zing lines of business definitions between and among states; intercompany agreem
ent provisions.
Preparation and filing of officer and director biographical affidavits; agent fo
r service of process compliance, insurance company start-ups, incorporations and
dissolutions.
Responsible for making corporate trademark filings and advising Corporate Relat
ions on trademark matters; UCC filings.
Recipient of Law Departments's Quality Award annually for seven years.
Supervised three legal assistants and an administrative assistant.
1983-1984: Corporate paralegal at Security Insurance Company in Farmington, Ct.
Responsibilities included: insurance and non-insurance company licensing; all c
orporate secretarial duties; rates and policy forms filings and compliance; agen
t for service of process flings; trademark filings; UCC filings; legal research;
regulatory compliance.
1981-1983: Civil litigation paralegal at law firm of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy,
in Hartford, Ct.
1978-1981: Products liability paralegal for over ten thousand product liability
cases nationwide at law firm of Danaher, Lewis and Tamoney in
Hartford, Ct
References
Furnished upon request.