Maine Gov. Nominates Superintendent

Maine Gov. John Baldacci recently announced the nomination of Mila Kofman as superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Insurance, the State’s insurance regulatory agency. The Bureau is responsible for overseeing more than 1,100 insurance companies and nearly 60,000 agents licensed to do business in Maine. Kofman currently serves as Associate Research Professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. She has led research projects at the Institute focused on public and private mechanisms to address the issue of the uninsured, health care fraud and other issues. Other projects she has spearheaded have been funded through such groups as the Robert W. Johnson Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, among others. Kofman has served as a consumer representative at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) since 2002. She was appointed co-editor of the Journal of Insurance Regulation in 2005. She has been a presenter at a variety of state and national health care meetings and briefings during her career, and has been widely published. If confirmed by the Legislature, Kofman would fill the position through April 2009, the expiration of the five-year term of former Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa.