Bluegrass State Gets New Top Regulator

McPeak is a longtime backer of efforts to make the U.S. insurance regulatory system more uniform.

Back in 1997, while she was participating in a panel discussion at the annual convention of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, Indianapolis, she talked about the need for a national regulatory scheme.

Once financial services companies were better equipped to compete on a national level, the next step would be for them to compete in the international marketplace, McPeak said.

“Something along the lines of the marketplace in Europe,” McPeak said.