Practices

Education

Arthur D. Perschetz |

Senior Advisor

Professional Experience

Arthur Perschetz serves as counsel in Baker & Daniels' insurance and financial services group where much of his practice focuses on forming captive insurers and risk retention groups. His experience in insurance-related regulatory and corporate matters and lobbying includes company and agency formation, acquisitions, sales and mergers.

Arthur also advises clients on corporate restructuring alternatives such as demutualizations and mutual holding company reorganizations as well as matters involving redomestication and a wide range of holding company issues. Additionally, he counsels clients on bank insurance sales programs, including Internet-related sales matters. Arthur has more than four decades of legal experience in the insurance industry.

Professional Associations

• National Association of Insurance Commissioners — Industry Advisory Committee to the Market Conduct and Consumer Affairs Subcommittee; Industry Advisory Committee to Draft Model Redomestication Law
• Commissioner of Insurance of the District of Columbia — Advisory Committee on Captive Insurance
• Federation of Regulatory Counsel
• International Center for Captive Insurance Education — Marketing Committee, Lecturer
• Captive Insurance Council of the District of Columbia — Board of Directors; Education Committee, Chair
• Fell's Point Residents Association, Baltimore — President
• American Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• North Carolina State Bar Association

Selected Publications

• "RRG Corporate Governance Status Update," The Risk Retention Reporter, August 2010
• "Opportunities Abound," Cell Company Handbook Captive Review, 2008
• "Segregated Strengths," Captive and ART Review, 2007
• "Spouting Growth," co-author, Captive and ART Review, 2007
• "The 2006 D.C. Captive Act Amendment," Federation of Regulatory Counsel Quarterly Journal of Insurance Regulation, 2006
• "Amendments to District of Columbia Law Chart New Territory for Risk Retention Groups," The Risk Retention Reporter, January 2005

Selected Presentations

• "Current Legal Issues Affecting Captives and Risk Retention," Captive Insurance Council of the District of Columbia, 2008
• "NAIC Update RRG Regulation," Montana Captive Insurance Association Annual Meeting, 2008
• "Testimony at Budget Hearing for Department of Insurance," District of Columbia City Council Committee on Consumer Regulatory Affairs, Securities and Banking, 2008
• "The Next Generation of Association-Sponsored Insurance Programs," American Society of Association Executives Webinar, 2008
• "Sponsor Captives: A Look at the History and Usage of Sponsored Captives, PCCs and Rent-a-Captives and How They Are Best Utilized," Risk and Insurance Research Group, 2008
• "Seminar Captive Basic Workshop," Risk and Insurance Research Group, 2008
• "Segregated Cells," Captive Insurance Companies Association International Conference, 2008
• "Cells and Cell Structures," World Captive Forum, 2007
• "Solving Health Care Liability Risks Through Alternative Risk Transfer," Captive Insurance Council of the District of Columbia Seminar, 2007
• "Segregated Cell Captives," Self-Insurance Institute of America Annual National Education Conference, 2007