PIA Appoints Kovac as Compliance Affairs Director

Timothy K. Kovac has joined the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) as director of business and compliance affairs.

Kovac, an attorney, previously served as a supervising analyst with the American Insurance Association (AIA) in Washington, D.C., where he headed a team of legal analysts charged with advising property and casualty insurers on compliance requirements pertaining to state and federal laws and regulations.

In his new position with PIA, Kovac will develop compliance materials that take rules and regulations and fashion them into desktop practices for PIA member agents, and head up PIA National’s agency contract review program. He will also monitor and attend meetings of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and serve as liaison to the PIA National Business Issues Committee.

Prior to joining AIA in 1999, Kovac served as a law clerk with the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland and the Office of the State’s Attorney in Montgomery County, Maryland. He earned a law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland.