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Alan McClain is now Arkansas Insurance Commissioner — its 24^th — having been named to lead the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID) by Gov. Asa Hutchinson in early April.

He previously has served as Commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services (ARS), an AID sister agency under the state Department of Commerce.

McClain has extensive experience in the field of workers’ compensation insurance, having worked with the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in addition to a 13-year stint with the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission where he spent almost nine years as chief executive officer.

McClain has served as a claims manager for self-insured workers’ compensation policies at Sedgwick Insurance Group, and on the Arkansas Workforce Development Board and the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities.

McClain has also served as president of the Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation and the president of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions (IAIABC), where he also served as co-chair of the NAIC/IAIABC Joint Working Group.

McClain began his career in state government in 1992 at the insurance department, spending eight years in its Public Employee Claims Division.

Source: AID

Topics Workers' Compensation