Susan T. Stead, Attorney

Susan T. Stead is a partner with the law firm of Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst and manages its Columbus, Ohio office.  She is Vice Chair of the firm's Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice Group.  Her national practice is devoted to insurance regulatory matters with a special emphasis on compliance and market regulation.  She counsels insurers about regulatory requirements and compliance programs, and represents insurers undergoing regulatory reviews and investigations and in obtaining approvals and is a frequent speaker on regulatory topics.   She chairs a Regulatory Advisory Panel for a health insurer and was retained by a state insurance department to develop a market analysis program. 

Before joining Nelson Levine deLuca & Horst, Ms. Stead was an Assistant Director for the Ohio Department of Insurance and managed the Market Conduct, Fraud and Enforcement and Agent Licensing Divisions.   As a regulator, she was also active in many NAIC initiatives and chaired several committees. She also spent several years as a staff attorney for the department.  Ms. Stead began her career with an insurance defense firm.

Ms. Stead is a CPCU and a graduate of Wittenberg University and the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

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