Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais will retire as of November 28, 2025. Mais was appointed as Connecticut insurance commissioner in February 2019. Governor Ned Lamont will formally nominate Josh Hershman to replace Mais in February when the Legislature is back in session. Hershman will serve as interim insurance commissioner beginning December 12, 2025.

Hershman is CEO of Immigrant Life Insurance Company of America and is an executive director of openIDL. Hershman was previously deputy commissioner and COO of the Connecticut Insurance Department from 2019 to 2022.

Governor Lamont Announces Insurance Commissioner Andrew Mais Retiring From State Service, Josh Hershman Nominated as Successor

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Theresa has been an insurance regulatory and compliance analyst for 23 years. Her duties include performing insurance company licensing, including UCAA primary, expansion, and corporate amendment applications and handling nationwide agency, agent, adjuster, and surplus lines broker licensing and renewals. Theresa also handles…

Theresa has been an insurance regulatory and compliance analyst for 23 years. Her duties include performing insurance company licensing, including UCAA primary, expansion, and corporate amendment applications and handling nationwide agency, agent, adjuster, and surplus lines broker licensing and renewals. Theresa also handles product approval filings for L&H and P&C insurance companies via SERFF; alien surplus lines insurer renewal and annual filings in the U.S. as well as Latin America through local counsel in various countries; third-party administrator renewals and annual report filings in all required states; life settlement broker and provider applications; Risk Purchasing Group applications and annual filings; and reinsurance intermediary applications and renewal.

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