Department+of+Insurance

The Department of Insurance licenses and regulates insurance companies, risk retention and purchasing groups, motor clubs, pre-need funeral homes, producers (agents), adjusters and consultants; approves policy forms; investigates consumer complaints; monitors financial condition and solvency of insurance companies; and collects premium and surplus lines taxes (W.S. 26-1-101 et seq.).
 * Department of Insurance **

The Department works with the Board of Insurance Agents’ Examiners. The Board of Insurance Agents' Examiners oversees testing policies and may contract with an independent testing service. Six members are appointed for five-year terms by the Governor with Senate confirmation required, pursuant to W.S. 26-10-102. Members include one life producer, one general lines producer, one producer of a domestic insurer, one title insurance producer, and one franchised automobile dealer. Five members shall be licensed producers for three years prior to appointment. (//2015 State Directory//)


 * Contact information:** 106 East 6th Avenue Cheyenne 82002 Phone (307) 777-7401, Fax (307) 777-2446 Email: wyinsdep@wyo.gov
 * Website:** [|doi.wyo.gov] (2015 State Directory)

=History=

The duties resulting from the insurance laws prior to the creation of the Insurance Commission, 1884, were, by law, executed by the Territorial Auditor.

The Insurance Commission was first created by the Eighth Territorial Legislative Assembly, 1884, which provided for a Territorial insurance commissioner to be appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the legislative council, for a term of two years; the Tenth Territorial Legislative Assembly, 1888, provided for the Territorial Auditor to be ex-officio insurance commissioner, and he remained as such until 1919.

The Fifteenth State Legislature, 1919, established a separate and distinct Insurance Department. charged with the execution of the laws in relation to the insurance and surety business; it provided that the said department so established was to be deemed and considered as a continuance of, and a successor to, the Department of Insurance heretofore placed, by law, in the State auditor as ex-officio insurance commissioner; the chief officer to be known as "Insurance Commissioner," appointed by the governor, with the consent of the senate, for a term of four years.

On or before the first day of November immediately preceding the meeting of the State Legislature, he makes a biennial report to the Governor; one copy is filed with the Governor, and one with each house of the State Legislature.

=Insurance Commissioners=


 * ~ Name ||~  ||~ Start Date ||~   ||~ End Date ||
 * Robert B. Forsyth ||  || March 1, 1919 ||   || November 9, 1920 ||
 * Donald M. Forsyth ||  || November 9, 1920 ||   || March 1, 1923 ||
 * Harry A. Loucks ||  || March 1, 1923 ||   || July 31, 1924 ||
 * Joseph Franklin Jordan ||  || July 31, 1924 ||   || March 1, 1927 ||
 * John M. Fairfield ||  || March 1, 1927 ||   || June 6, 1927 ||
 * Lyle E. Jay ||  || June 6, 1927 ||   || February 26, 1929 ||
 * Theodore Thulemeyer ||  || February 26, 1929 ||   || February 21, 1935 ||
 * Arthur J. Ham ||  || February 21, 1935 ||   || February 1, 1939 ||
 * Alex Macdonald ||  || February 1, 1939 ||   || February 28, 1943 ||
 * Rodney Barrus ||  || March 1, 1943 ||   ||   ||
 * Ben S. Murphy ||  || 1971 ||   || 1975 ||
 * John T. Langdon ||  || 1976 ||   || 1984 ||
 * Robert W. Schrader ||  || 1984 ||   || 1986 ||
 * Gordon W., Taylor, Jr. ||  || 1986 ||   || 1989 ||
 * Kenneth Erickson ||  || 1990 ||   ||   ||
 * Kenneth Erickson ||  || 1990 ||   ||   ||

=Additional Resources=
 * Wyoming Department of Insurance website (accessed September 2015)