Allan L. McVey was appointed West Virginia Insurance Commissioner by Governor Jim Justice on March 21, 2017.  He was then appointed by the Governor to serve as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Administration in January 2019. He served in that position until his reappointment as West Virginia Insurance Commissioner effective September 22, 2021.

Commissioner McVey is responsible for the regulation of the insurance market, as well as protection of insurance consumers. He believes in the mission of the West Virginia Insurance Commissioner’s office of promoting a competitive and solvent insurance market with adequate consumer protection by fairly and consistently administering the insurance laws of West Virginia.

Prior to his appointment in 2017, Commissioner McVey was a licensed insurance agent who served in several capacities during his long tenure in the insurance industry in West Virginia. His experience includes a position as a medical claims examiner with the West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Fund, underwriter with a large national insurance company and since 1976 a licensed insurance agent and broker with several firms, both local and national. His latest assignment included both sales and management of the West Virginia operations for a large national insurance brokerage firm.

Commissioner McVey earned a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree from West Virginia State University and has several post-graduate insurance designations.