John Thomson, the Connecticut Insurance Department’s captive unit director, has been appointed as deputy commissioner of the department, effective immediately.
Thomson joined the department in 2012 to develop the new captive insurance unit and in those three years, the unit has licensed eight captive insurers and registered more than 180 risk retention groups.
Before joining the department, Thomson was the editor for International Risk Management Institute, the publisher of Captive Insurance Company Reports.
He also was the chief operating officer for energy industry captive, Oil Casualty Insurance, and has held leadership positions with General Electric, Aetna, Cigna and Hartford risk management firm Towers Perrin/Tillinghast.
