AIA'S TEAM OF EXPERTS State Affairs
Katherine Pettibone Vice President, State Affairs - Western Region Katherine Pettibone serves as vice president for state affairs, Western region for the American Insurance Association. This includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Ms. Pettibone’s responsibilities include working to advance the public policy interests of AIA’s member companies in the legislative and regulatory arenas. She works out of AIA’s regional office in Sacramento, California. Previously, Ms. Pettibone was the Legislative Director and Lobbyist for the Civil Justice Association of California. She has been appointed by Governor Jerry Brown as a Commissioner of the California Boating and Waterways Commission and prior to that served as a Senior Legislative Analyst in Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Office of Planning and Research. Prior to her legal career, she was a professional athlete competing in multiple America's Cup and Around the World races. An attorney authorized to practice law in both California and Washington D.C., she has also practiced sports and contract law. Ms. Pettibone is a graduate of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law and earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Miami, where she took a leave of absence to compete in the 1995 America’s Cup as a member of the first all-women’s racing team.
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More from Katherine Pettibone
October 15, 2018 - “The conference committee established that vegetation management is critical to prevention. We have got to get the dead wood out.”...
September 25, 2018 - Katie Pettibone, AIA vice president, state affairs western region, said the insurance industry strongly opposed SB 824 when it was introduced, because it was too broad in its geographic impact....
August 31, 2018 - Katherine Pettibone, vice president, state affairs, Western Region for the American Insurance Association, told Best’s News Service the industry worked with other parties to limit the geographic impact of the bill, which was initially much broader. She said the earlier language “could have forced insurers to be frozen in half of the state.”...
June 15, 2018 - Katherine Pettibone, vice president, state affairs, Western Region at the American Insurance Association, said various changes to the bills have allowed the AIA to take a neutral stance on each....
May 3, 2018 - Katherine Pettibone, the American Insurance Association’s Western Region vice president, state affairs, said her group and the insurance industry support the bills....
April 26, 2018 - Katherine Pettibone, vice president, Western Region for the American Insurance Association, said the industry objects only to the attempt to combine policy limits, because companies handle coverage in separate lines and are writing differently for each line....
April 26, 2018 - “We understand the travesty that the fires created, and we’ve been really trying to work hard with the authors on the measures,” she said....
January 23, 2018 - “Taxes are just one component of rate filings, as are the growing losses from natural disasters,” said Katherine Pettibone, AIA western region vice president, state affairs. ...
December 22, 2017 - “We already have laws. At the end of the day, rates have to be actuarially sound. Insurers have to be solvent. You can’t manage a book that doesn’t make fiscal sense.”...