Douglas
Simpson was born in 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio. At Dartmouth
College, he received an education in social sciences and the use of
computers for electronic communication, graduating cum laude in
1970. After two years commanding a desk as an officer in the U.S.Army,
he graduated with honors from The University
of Connecticut School of Law in 1975. Following his admission to the
Connecticut State Bar, he joined the Law Department of The
Hartford, where he now provides legal counsel to property-casualty
insurance management in Hartford, CT.
Doug provides antitrust compliance counsel to The Hartford and heads the legal team that is primary legal counsel to Trumbull Services, L.L.C., which provides policywriting, claims, collection and receivables management services to various state pools, assigned risk plans and other insurers. Trumbull Services affiliates include CCS Commercial, L.L.C., which applies technology and insurance expertise to insurance subrogation and the collection of commercial insurance premiums, Trumbull Marketing Resources, L.L.C., which provides cutting-edge telemarketing and sales support services to agents and brokers, and Trumbull Finance, L.L.C., which pays insurance companies cash for insurance premium receivables.
As The Hartford's representative, Doug sits on the Governing Boards
of the Insurance Guaranty Associations of Connecticut, Massachusetts and
Maine, and the Legal and Data Processing Committees of Guaranty Fund Management
Services. He is a member of the American
Corporate Counsel Association, the Dartmouth
Lawyer's Association. and the HTML Writers
Guild.
In addition to his other services to The Hartford, Doug regularly speaks
to new insurance lawyers on legal issues of insurance operations for the
annual University of Connecticut School
of Law Insurance Institute, writes on the subjects of insurance law
and regulation, antitrust compliance, and how emerging issues of electronic
commerce and the Internet may affect insurance transactions. His February 4, 1997 paper "Business on the Net: Legal Regulation" was prepared for a satellite
telecast by the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU). Doug spoke at the October session of The Insurance Roundtable of Baltimore, for which he prepared "Business on the Net - 97,", regarding the continuing expansion of electronic commerce and financial transactions on the Net. He is scheduled to speak in January at "Insurance.com," a two-day seminar by Center for Business Intelligence about using the Internet to gain a competitive advantage in sales and delivery of insurance. He has served as a volunteer to the Electronic Communications Drafting Committee of the Connecticut Law Revision Commission.
Doug lives in Wethersfield, CT with his wife and daughter and attends
services at the historic First Church
(gathered in 1635). Olde Wethersfield is known for its pre-Revolutionary War structures, including the Goldberg's
c.1730 home.
Copyright 1997 Douglas Simpson
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