Kara Baysinger
Partner
Kara Baysinger heads SNR Denton's Insurance sector team and
Insurance Regulation practice. Kara is a member of the firm's
leadership team, serving on both its Global Advisory Committee and
US Policy and Planning Board. She is also actively involved in
leading the firm's Women's Network.
She began her career by spending almost ten years working
in-house for insurance companies, responsible for product and
contract development, regulatory compliance, agent licensing and
contracting, reinsurance, corporate contracting, market conduct
practices and examinations, insurance department complaints and
government relations for 50 states. Kara joined SNR Denton in
1998.
Kara has extensive experience in market conduct and sales
practices (including multistate examinations and investigations),
licensing, regulatory approvals, electronic commerce, transactional
matters (including acquisitions, mergers and divestitures of
insurance and non-insurance entities), reinsurance, and product and
market development issues. She represents national and
international insurance and reinsurance companies,
insurance-related service companies, other financial services
entities, e-business enterprises and state governments.
Kara has served on numerous state and National Association of
Insurance Commissioners Advisory groups. She has negotiated and
resolved hundreds of significant single and multistate market
conduct examinations and inquiries on behalf of insurer clients.
She has created contracting/licensing procedures and contracts for
insurance and other distribution and production entities, online
and traditional insurance advertisements, sales tools and
protocols, insurance products and contracts. She has also
negotiated complex reinsurance treaties and commutations and
insurance entity transactions. She has developed market conduct
procedures, audit and examination infrastructure and
regulatory compliance protocols for health, life and property
and casualty companies. She has procured corporate admissions
and approvals for insurers and distribution entities nationwide.
Kara also has extensive experience working with traditional and
Internet businesses on corporate transactional, licensing,
strategic alliance and joint venture matters.
Kara is admitted to practice in Illinois and California, and is
a member of the Illinois and California Bar Associations. She is a
former member of the California Bar Association's Insurance Law
Committee and chair of the Committee on Group Insurance
Programs.
Among her awards, Kara is consistently named a "Super Lawyer" by
Super Lawyers (a peer survey of 52,700 Northern California
lawyers) and a "Leader in California" by Chambers USA:
America's Leading Lawyers for Business Client Guide
(2004-2012). Kara is recognized in the 2011 edition of Legal
500 Insurance: Non-Contentious for her capacity to
"handle difficult and politically sensitive issues."
Kara is a frequent speaker, author and cited authority on
insurance issues and trends.
Notable Publications
- Co-author, Courageous Counsel: Conversations with Women
General Counsel in the Fortune 500, 2011
- Co-author, The Sonnenschein Guide to Insurance Market
Regulation, 2008
- Co-author, "eBusiness and Insurance: A Legal Guide To
Transacting Insurance and Other Business on the Internet," CCH
Publishing, 2001
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