Issue Experts

  • Phillip Arnzen

    Phillip Arnzen

    Regional Vice President – Midwest

  • Anna Buhlinger

    Anna Buhlinger

    Federal Affairs Director

  • Brian Christenberry

    Brian Christenberry

    Regional Vice President – Great Lakes

  • Erin Collins

    Erin Collins

    Senior Vice President - State and Policy Affairs

  • Tony Cotto

    Tony Cotto

    Director of Auto and Underwriting Policy

  • Bri Dahl

    Bri Dahl

    Public Policy Analyst

  • Katherine Duveneck

    Katherine Duveneck

    Federal Affairs Director

  • Kristin Eichhorn

    Kristin Eichhorn

    Assistant Vice President – Political Involvement Programs

  • Jimi Grande

    Jimi Grande

    Senior Vice President - Federal & Political Affairs

  • Tom Karol

    Tom Karol

    General Counsel - Federal

  • Lindsey Klarkowski

    Lindsey Klarkowski

    Director of Data Science & AI/ML Policy

  • Patrick McCarty

    Patrick McCarty

    Federal Affairs Manager

  • Caitlin Murray

    Caitlin Murray

    Regional Vice President – Southeast

  • Matt Overturf

    Matt Overturf

    Regional Vice President – Ohio Valley & Mid Atlantic

  • Cate Paolino

    Cate Paolino

    Director of Public Policy

  • Christian Rataj

    Christian Rataj

    Senior Regional Vice President – Western Region

  • Colleen Scheele

    Colleen Scheele

    Public Policy Counsel, Solvency & Tax Policy

  • Jon Schnautz

    Jon Schnautz

    Vice President - State Affairs

  • Ward Tisdale

    Ward Tisdale

    Regional Vice President - Southwest

  • Brandon Vick

    Brandon Vick

    Regional Vice President – Northwest Region

Tom Karol

Tom Karol
General Counsel - Federal

Tom Karol

Tom Karol serves as General Counsel - Federal in NAMIC’s Washington office. Tom represents NAMIC in Washington on issues impacting property casualty insurance companies and has primary management of NAMIC’s response to Dodd-Frank legislation and regulation. Tom is also the Leader of NAMIC’s Investment Services Practice.

Tom has extensive legal, regulatory and operations experience with major financial services companies, law firms, regulatory agencies and Congress. Tom was a leader in Deloitte’s Global Financial Services practice, a supervisory principal for a broker dealer, with the S.E.C. Division of Enforcement and with the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.

Tom graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and has a political science degree from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Kathryn, his son David and his daughter Julianne.