Indiana Insurance Commissioner Atterholt Moves to Utility Board

Indiana Department of Insurance (DOI) Commissioner Jim Atterholt has been appointed to serve on the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) and former DOI Chief Deputy Commissioner Carol Cutter will now lead the insurance department.

Atterholt was appointed DOI commissioner in 2005. During his tenure, he led agency reform efforts to make DOI more responsive to consumers and the insurance industry while strengthening the department’s commitment to consumer protection. He also initiated a program to provide DOI assistance to Hoosier victims of natural disasters who have problems with insurance claims. Since 2005, the DOI has set record numbers with respect to the dollars recovered for consumers who filed insurance-related complaints.

Atterholt served as a state representative (House District 86) from 1998-2002 and previously served as the director of state government affairs for AT&T Indiana, and as a congressional aide in Indiana and Washington, D.C., where his responsibilities included energy issues.

Cutter has been DOI deputy commissioner of health issues since 2005. She led efforts to eliminate an 18-month backlog of rate and form filings for health, life and property/casualty products in her first two years on the job.

Cutter also helped establish a self-certification process for life and annuity rate and form filings to allow for a faster turnaround for approval of those insurance products. Prior to serving in state government, Cutter worked in various capacities in the insurance industry for nearly 30 years.