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May 18, 2009 at 08:00 PM
WASHINGTON — A former insurance company executive who has testified before Congress in favor of an optional federal charter system is now the deputy secretary of the Treasury.
The Senate moved Monday to confirm Neal Wolin by unanimous consent.
In a statement about the confirmation vote, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner notes that Wolin has “strong managerial experience in both the private and public sectors.”
Wolin began working for Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, as the company’s general counsel in 2001. When he left in December 2008 to work in the White House as a deputy counsel for economic policy, he was the president of Hartford’s property-casualty operations.
In November 2003, Wolin appeared on behalf of Hartford at a hearing of the capital markets subcommittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
Wolin testified that the government should give insurers the option of choosing between being regulated by the traditional state regulation system or being regulated by a new federal insurance regulatory system.
