Podcast Center
Video Center
Webcasts
Resource Center
Events
July 25, 2016 at 02:02 PM
Hillary Clinton launched a million Google background searches Friday by announcing that she wants Sen. Tim Kaine to be her vice presidential running-mate.
Kaine, who has been representing Virginia in the Senate as a Democrat since 2013, was governor of Virginia from 2006 through 2010.
Related: PPACA: Sebelius Responds To Constitutionality Suit
He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1958, and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. His father was a welder who owned a small business. Kaine earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Harvard. He went to Honduras with a Catholic aide group for nine months, starting in1980.
While at Harvard, he married Anne Holton and moved with her to Richmond, Virginia, to live near her family. He then went to work as a lawyer.
He has not been deeply involved with insurance during his career, but he has had some direct, and indirect, links.
For a look at some of those links, read on:
Kaine helped file a major mortgage lending class-action suit against an insurer in November 1996. (Photo: Thinkstock)
1. The insurance industry first noticed him in connection with a big class-action suit against Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.’s mortgage lending arm.
After Kaine moved to Richmond, and went to work for Mezzullo & McCandlish, a law firm there, he got insurers’ attention by filing a huge class-action lawsuit on behalf of consumers who accused Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company of discriminating against borrowers seeking to buy homes in certain communities.
Related: Nationwide Sued For Va. ‘Redlining’
Kaine got insurers’ attention again in 1998, when a jury awarded the plaintiffs $100 million in punitive damages.
A. Linwood Holton was a vice president at the American Council of Life Insurers as well as its general counsel. (Photo: Thinkstock)
2. Kaine’s father-in-law was the general counsel of the American Council of Life Insurers for many years.
Kaine is the husband of Anne Holton and the son-in-law of A. Linwood Holton Jr., who is a director in the government relations practice at McCandlish Holton P.C., the successor firm to Mezzullo & McCandlish.
At press time, representatives at the firm were not available for comment, and American Council of Life Insurers representatives were still combing through their files for details.
But McCandlish Holton shows in Linwood Holton’s biography that he was a vice president at the ACLI and its general counsel.
Linwood Holton served as governor of Virginia, as a Republican, from 1970 through 1974.
A snippet of the 1966 edition of the Insurance Almanac that’s available on Google shows that Linwood Holton was serving as the general counsel of the ACLI in 1966. The ACLI found records showing that he was also at the ACLI from 1978 through 1985.
Related: High Court’s 9-0 Barnett Ruling Dismays Industry
Before Marilyn Tavenner worked for President Obama, she worked for Kaine. (Photo: CMS)
3. He pulled Marilyn Tavenner into the public sector.
Marilyn Tavenner is now the president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, a major trade group for U.S. health insurers.
From 2011 through 2015, she was the acting administrator and, later, Senate-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as it was bringing the Affordable Care Act exchange system and other ACA programs to life.
Tavenner, who started out as a nurse, worked for Hospital Corporation of America from 1981 through 2005. From 2006 through 2010, while Kaine was still governor of Virginia, she was Kaine’s secretary of Health and Human Resources.
Related: Obama Taps Tavenner to Head CMS
