Awards
Robert Dineen Award
An Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance
In June 1989, the NAIC established the Robert Dineen Award in honor of the founder of NAIC's Support and Services Office. The award is designed to honor a staff member of an insurance department who has made an outstanding contribution to state regulation of insurance, and exhibits an attitude and performs activities fostering the advancement of the insurance regulatory profession.
Information Required for Nomination
- The specific contribution of the nominee stated in a single sentence.
- Present position: Title, organization, address, and positions (past and present) in which the nominee made the contribution.
- How the contribution was implemented. Please cite specifics.
- The actual proven impact of the contribution.
- Whether the contribution was developed alone or together with others (name any others).
- The probable future impact of the contribution.
Criteria for Selection
- Currently serving as full-time staff of a state insurance department.
- Has contributed a singularly significant concept of practice that sets a new standard in the area of state regulation of insurance.
- Has individually produced research which makes an original and significant contribution to state regulation of insurance.
- Has achieved the most effective regulatory program at the optimum cost over the longest term.
- Exhibits an attitude and performs activities fostering the advancement of the insurance regulatory profession.
- Has made an outstanding contribution to the literature of insurance.
Past Honorees
2024
Matt Gendron, Esq, Rhode Island Insurance Division; John Rehagen, Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance
2023
E. Joy Little, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance; Jackie Obusek, North Carolina Department of Insurance; George Bradner, Connecticut Insurance Department; Denise Gardner, Louisiana Department of Insurance
2022
Erin Klug, Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions; Glenda Haverkamp, Kansas Insurance Department; Don Beatty, Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) Bureau of Insurance.
2021
Nancy Cross, Mississippi Department of Insurance; Doug Slape, Texas Department of Insurance; Judy Weaver, Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services
2020
Gordon I. Ito, Hawaii Insurance Division; Paul Lombardo, Connecticut Department of Insurance; Douglas C. Stolte, Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance
2019
Jack Broccoli, Rhode Island Division of Insurance; Patrick McNaughton, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner
2018
Mel Anderson, Arkansas Department of Insurance; Susanne Murphy, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
2017
Charles Angell, Alabama Department of Insurance; Paula M. Pallozzi, Rhode Island Division of Insurance
2016
Kim Hudson, California Department of Insurance; Cindy Donovan, Indiana Department of Insurance; Rich Piazza, Louisiana Department of Insurance
2015
Christine Neighbors, Nebraska Department of Insurance; Chlora Lindley-Myers, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance; Michael Boerner, Texas Department of Insurance
2014
Lenita Blasingame - Arkansas; Belinda H. Miller - Florida
2013
Kathy Belfi, Connecticut Insurance Department; Fred Heese, Missouri Department of Insurance
2012
Joseph Fritsch, New York State Department of Financial Services
2011
Danny Saenz, Texas Department of Insurance
2010
Steve Ostlund, Alabama Insurance Department; Lou Felice, New York State Insurance Department
2009
Dr. Raymond Spudeck, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
2008
Larry J. Bruning, Kansas Insurance Department; Ana M. Smith-Daley, Texas Department of Insurance
2007
Charles Rapacciuolo, New York State Department of Financial Services
2006
Robert Wake, Maine Bureau of Insurance
2005
Michael J. Moriarty, New York State Department of Financial Services
2004
David Parsons, Alabama Insurance Department; Rich Robleto, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
2003
Rosanne Mead, Assistant Insurance Commissioner for the State of Iowa; Fred Nepple, General Counsel for the state of Wisconsin
2002
Betty Patterson, Senior Associate Commissioner for the Texas Department of Insurance; Randy Blumer, Deputy Insurance Commissioner with the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
2001
Stephen J. Johnson, Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the state of Pennsylvania
2000
Tom Foley, Life and Health Actuary with the Kansas Insurance Department; Arnold Dutcher, Chief Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance
1999
Maryellen Waggoner, Deputy Commissioner for the Colorado Division of Insurance
1998
Guenther Ruch, Administrator of the Division of Regulation and Enforcement in the Wisconsin Department of Insurance
1997
Larry Gorski, Chief Actuary for the Illinois Department of Insurance
1996
Kevin Cronin, NAIC's Director of Government and International Relations
1995
Norris Clark, Deputy Commissioner and Chief of the Financial Surveillance Branch, California Department of Insurance
1994
Cecil Thomas, Director of the Financial Condition Division, South Carolina Department of Insurance
1993
Vincent Laurenzano, Assistant Deputy Superintendent and Chief Examiner, New York Insurance Department
1992
Robert Solitro, Deputy Commissioner for the state of New Hampshire
1991
Terence Lennon, Assistant Deputy Director, Superintendent and Chief Examiner of life companies for the New York Department
1990
James W. Schacht, Chief Deputy Commissioner for the state of Illinois
1989
Dick Brock, Kansas Department of Insurance; John Montgomery, California Department of Insurance