Become a sponsor of the IRES Foundation today. As a provider of services to officers and key market conduct professionals from insurance organizations across the country, the National School on Market Regulation offers an effective channel to reach a highly targeted and focused industry audience. Some of the industry’s leading providers have discovered the School to be one of their most effective marketing efforts and have become long-term sponsors.

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Thank You to our 2010 Sponsors

Diamond Sponsorship

Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst, LLC
At NLdH, our mission is to strengthen our clients' businesses through representation that is smart, yet aggressive. Our mission is developed to protect our client's business practices through enterprise risk management by assisting with evaluating risks and making informed, proactive decisions. Our mission is to use our litigation experience, as well as our vast resources, to defend our clients when they are challenged.

Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, LLP
With more than 700 lawyers and other professionals in 13 offices in the U.S. and Europe, and a global reach throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Sonnenschein serves the legal and public interest needs of many of the world's best-known and most admired businesses, nonprofits and individuals.  Founded in 1906, Sonnenschein is a leader in innovative legal services, serving our clients through integrated, inter-office cooperation and teamwork among practice groups to provide efficient, effective and timely legal services and business counseling.


Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer is The Professional's First Choice for quality information, cutting-edge tools, and workflow solutions that help professionals make decisions effectively and efficiently. Utilizing the latest technologies, we ensure that our customers have the solutions they need, when they need them, and in the media best suited to their requirements. Our range of information products encompasses electronic and print formats, and we specialize in creating integrated, embedded, end-to-end solutions designed to improve our customers' work processes.

Platinum Sponsorship

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
As the 73rd largest law firm in the U.S., Baker Donelson gives clients access to a team of more than 570 attorneys and public policy advisors representing more than 30 practice areas, all seamlessly connected across 15 offices to serve virtually any legal need. Drawing from our diverse and multi-disciplined industry specific teams, we match our lawyers to each client’s particular needs. While providing legal services is our focus, it is how we deliver them that sets us apart. As a result, our clients receive more than they have typically come to expect from a law firm.

Boundas, Skarzynski, Walsh & Black, LLC
Boundas, Skarzynski, Walsh & Black, LLC ("BSWB") is comprised of attorneys who are internationally recognized leaders in the fields of insurance and reinsurance, with offices in the financial capitals of Chicago, London and New York. The majority of the firm’s attorneys were formerly members of Peterson and Ross, LLC, which was in existence for over 100 years and highly respected for its work in the insurance industry.

Gold Sponsorship

Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies
Fireman’s Fund is owned by Allianz SE, one of the largest providers of property and casualty insurance in the world. We provide insurance solutions through independent agents to help customers manage risks and opportunities.

Regulatory Consultants, Inc.
Regulatory Consultants, Inc. provides market conduct examination services to state insurance departments across the United States. Our professional staff have significant expertise in all life, health, property, and casualty lines. Our examinations produce results!

West, a Thomson Reuters business
West, a Thomson Reuters business delivers a powerful competitive advantage to its customers by providing the highest-quality legal, regulatory and business information and the most innovative technology tools to manage it. Westlaw Compliance Advisor^TM, provides insurance professionals next generation of compliance solutions to keep your organization fully compliant.

Silver Sponsorship

Bankers Life/Conseco
Conseco's mission is to be a leading provider of financial security for life, health and retirement needs of middle market Americans. Headquartered in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana, our companies provide supplemental health insurance, life insurance and annuities. Through our subsidiaries and a nationwide network of distributors, Conseco helps more than 4 million customers step up to a better, more secure future. Conseco is a Fortune 1000 company, with more than $4 billion in annual revenues.

INS Regulatory Insurance Services, Inc.
INS Regulatory Insurance Services, Inc. (InsRis) has been providing examination and related services to regulators since 1987. With over one hundred and twenty five (125) highly qualified regulatory professionals, we have been able to assist insurance regulators in fulfilling their responsibilities in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. InsRis provides assistance to regulators in virtually all areas of insurance regulation. The firm specializes in Risk-Focused Surveillance Examinations, Market Conduct Examinations, Information Systems Technology, Actuarial Services, Reinsurance Services, Investment Services, Market Analysis, Rehabilitations and Liquidations, and Financial Analysis.

Safe Auto
SafeAuto is a leading consumer-direct auto insurer based in Columbus, Ohio. SafeAuto sells insurance over the phone using its highly branded "1-800 SafeAuto" number and over the web at www.safeauto.com.


Westmont Associates, Inc.
Westmont brings together an unparalleled team of seasoned professionals, including both contract/compliance specialists and attorneys, whose combined experience spans more than ten decades. Some of the many services that Westmont provides are: form, rate and rule filings (all product lines, all states); product development; company formation and licensing; agent/agency licensing; risk purchasing group registrations/renewals; redomestications and name changes; underwriting and compliance audits; mergers and acquisitions; claims management; due diligence; liquidations; rehabilitations; and reinsurance commutations.

Bronze Sponsorship

AEGON companies
AEGON is an international life insurance, pension and investment company based in The Hague, The Netherlands. With businesses in over twenty markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia, the AEGON companies employ approximately 28,000 people and have over 40 million customers across the globe. In the U.S., AEGON companies provide clients with a full range of insurance, pension, supplemental health and related investment products. The U.S. companies include: Transamerica Life Insurance Company Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company Monumental Life Insurance Company Stonebridge Life Insurance Company Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company Western Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Company ML Life Insurance Company of New York.


Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC
Founded on the principles of client service, respect, and integrity and offering over 600 professionals to serve our client base spanning across the U.S., CRI is a nationally recognized leader in serving the insurance industry. CRI is a nationally recognized leader in serving the insurance industry. CRI was recently ranked by Best’s Review as one of the Nation’s “Top Audit Firms” in the insurance industry. In addition to this national recognition, our insurance industry practice is recognized for its leadership, and our insurance partners are well-known speakers on insurance taxation, accounting, and statutory issues and numerous other accounting topics. CRI’s specialized insurance regulatory consulting practice is one of our premier practice areas and is managed and staffed by professionals with significant experience in providing consulting services to regulatory authorities and insurance entities.

CLEAR Market Practices, LLC
Since 2001, CLEAR Market Practices has published the CLEAR Report. The CLEAR Report captures and communicates changes to laws and regulations as well as agency bulletins and notices and attorney general opinions of interest to the insurance and banking industries. CLEAR Market Practices provides its CLEARTrack tool to subscribers so that subscribers can monitor and track compliance with the changing regulatory environment.

CUNA Mutual Group
CUNA Mutual Group is a leading provider of financial services to credit unions, their members and valued customers worldwide. With more than 70 years of market commitment, CUNA Mutual’s vision is unwavering: to be a trusted business partner who delivers service excellence and customer-focused, best-in-class products and market-driven innovation.

Kaplan Financial Education
Kaplan Financial Education is a leading global provider of financial education solutions to professionals around the world, helping candidates leverage their careers by preparing them for Securities Licensing and Insurance Licensing exams, Continuing Education requirements, and the CPA, CFA^®, FRM^®, CAIA^®, CFP^®, ChFC^® CLU^®, CASL^®, and CPCU^® exams. Kaplan Financial Education is part of Kaplan, Inc., a leading international education services provider and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company.

National Insurance Producer Registry
The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) provides an electronic gateway to the state insurance departments that allows for electronic producer licensing and licensing renewals. NIPR also maintains a database of producer license information.

Stalker Vogrin Bracken & Frimet
Stalker Vogrin Bracken & Frimet is a boutique firm that services the full needs of our clients through dynamic lawyering and risk assessment in order to allow them to make informed business decisions. Relying on our combined years of experience with the insurance industry, our professionals handle complex issues for our insurance and reinsurance clients. With offices in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey, we are dedicated to assisting our clients in the following areas: Regulatory, Policy Drafting, Reinsurance,Transactional, Excess & Surplus Lines, and Insurance Coverage & Defense.

Wells Fargo
Banking & financial services

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