Hamm Gets North Dakota Republican Backing for Insurance Job

Republicans are sticking with Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm as their choice for North Dakota’s top insurance regulator.

At the North Dakota GOP state convention on March 31, delegates endorsed Hamm for re-election. He had no opposition.

Hamm is a lawyer and a former Cass County prosecutor. He was appointed to the insurance job in 2007. He won his first four-year term in 2008.

Earlier this month, Democrats endorsed Tom Potter of Grand Forks as their candidate for insurance commissioner. Potter is a retired professor of finance at the University of North Dakota.

Potter supports the new federal health care law. Hamm calls it “the single worst example of over-regulation” he has seen as insurance commissioner.

Hamm says keeping the law will “have devastating consequences” for the nation’s health care system.