Illinois

  • Mike Christman (sp)
  • Larry Gorski - Illinois Insurance Department - Actuary
  • Michael T. McRaith
    • 2005-2011 - Illinois Insurance Commissioner - 3/21/2005 - 6/1/2011
    • FIO Director
  • John Washburn
    • 1983-1989 - Illinois Insurance Commissioner - 11/1/1983 - 9/1/1989
    • 1991 0227, 0507, 0509 and 0523 - GOV (House) - Insurance Company Solvency, (CSPAN) Insurance Company Insolvencies, Cardiss Collins (D-IL) ---  [BonkNote] 
  • Melissa Bean - US House - (D-IL) - 2005-2011
  • Judy Biggert - US House - (R-IL) - 1999-2013
  • Cardiss Collins - US House - (D-IL) -1973-1997
  • Peter Fitzgerald - US Senate - (R-IL) - 1999-2005
  • Luis Gutiérrez -  US House - (D-IL) - 1993-2019
  • Don Manzullo - US House - (R-IL) - 1993-2013
  • Dan Rostenkowski - US House - (D-IL) - 1959 to 1995
    • 1981-1994 - Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
    • 1981-1982 - H.R.4242 - Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 - 97th Congress - Sponsor: Rep. Rostenkowski, Dan [D-IL-8]
    • 1996 - Prison - Congressional Post Office Scandal, pleaded guilty to charges of mail fraud in 1996 and was fined and sentenced to 17 months in prison. In December 2000, president Bill Clinton pardoned Rostenkowski.
  • Adolph J. Sabath - US House (D-IL) - 1907-1952
    • 1936 – GOV (House) – Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders’ Reorganizations – Adolph J. Sabath (D-IL)  ---  [BonkNote]
  • (p40) - Don Manzullo - (R-IL)
  • Well, they didn’t even know about it.  [Bonk: re: Bernie Madoff]
    • Their own internal investigation showed that when the whistleblower had contacted the lower echelon at the SEC, that it never made it all the way to the top.
    • I guess my thought is, why didn’t that man who testified here contact a Member of Congress or somebody in the Banking Committee, because we could have kicked it upstairs right away and worked on it.

2009 1006 - GOV (House) - Capital Markets Regulatory Reform: Strengthening Investor Protection, Enhancing Oversight of Private Pools of Capital, And Creating a National Insurance Office - [PDF-325p

  • In the Executive Life case in Illinois, the amount levied used up our capacity for 1991 and, as it turned out, it was a good thing we did because we had to use virtually all of our capacity again in 1992 because of additional insolvencies that hit Illinois harder than most other states -- Inter-American for one, AMS Life for another.
  • There was about $200 million involved in just those two cases in Illinois.

--  Robert Ewald, not a member of the Society, is Executive Director of Illinois Life and Health Guaranty in Chicago, Illinois.

1993 - SOA - Rehabilitation Fallout, Society of Actuaries - 20p

  • In December, the state insurance director Joseph Gerber (of whom there have been reports of collusion with Dorfman and Hopps) investigated Bray's firm, Central Casualty.
    • In January 1962, Gerber announced that the firm was short one and one-half million dollars and shortly thereafter the firm was liquidated.

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