Sara Waitt, general counsel at the Texas Department of Insurance, is retiring in December after 24 years with the agency.
TDI Chief Clerk Norma Garcia has been named at the agency’s new general counsel and Associate Commissioner Stan Strickland becomes deputy commissioner over the TDI Legal Division.
Waitt and her staff helped finalize two large settlements for consumers this year — a $353 million settlement signed with State Farm Lloyds and an $84 million agreement with Farmers Insurance Group.
Waitt joined TDI in 1987 as a law clerk in the liquidation division. She left the agency twice to work at a private law firm. She last returned to TDI in 1999 as the head of legal services and served as general counsel under three insurance commissioners.
Garcia has been a lawyer at TDI since 1998. Before that, she worked in the Office of the Attorney General’s Financial Litigation Division.
Strickland joined TDI as a staff attorney in 1996 and has been serving as head of the Legal Section since 2011. He works closely with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and serves on the organization’s cyber security task force.
Source: Texas Department of Insurance
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