M A R Y E L I ZA B E T H S E N K E W I C Z
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
OFFICE OF INSURANCE REGULATION
Mary Beth Senkewicz is an attorney and is the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation's Deputy
Commissioner for Life & Health. As such, Mary Beth oversees the daily activities of the L&H
Product Review and L&H Financial Oversight Units, which are responsible for the regulation of
all insurers operating in Florida in relation to life and health form and rate filings; licensure; and
financial solvency. She previously lived in Washington, DC, where she had a private consulting
practice, specializing in health policy and insurance. Among her clients were the government of
Puerto Rico, where she consulted with the insurance department on a major revision to the
Puerto Rico Insurance Code, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she
advised the Egyptian government on establishing a health insurance regulatory unit within the
Egyptian Insurance Supervisory Authority. She also testified before the United States Senate
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship about the issues concerning health insurance
and small businesses, and recently testified on behalf of the Office before the Senate Special
Committee on Aging on the life settlement industry. She also testified before that same
committee on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on longterm care insurance. On behalf of Commissioner Kevin McCarty, she chairs the NAIC’s Senior
Issues Task Force.
Mary Beth was formerly Senior Health Policy Counsel and Legislative Advisor at the NAIC for
over 11 years. She served as support staff for the NAIC’s Health Insurance and Managed Care
(B) Committee and the Senior Issues Task Force. Those NAIC groups deal with such issues as
Congressional proposals affecting health insurance regulation, the uninsured, ERISA, individual
and small group market reform, HIPAA compliance, Medicare supplement insurance, Medicare
Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and long-term care insurance. She was the NAIC
representative on the Board of the Long Term Care Insurance Educational Foundation, a
nonprofit organization that provided a nonpartisan educational forum about the evolving long
term care insurance marketplace. She was NAIC representative to, and chair of, the Public Sector
Advisory Committee of the National Committee on Quality Assurance. She has been an expert
speaker at a variety of health seminars across the country.
Prior to joining the NAIC, Mary Beth supervised the Consumer Affairs Division of the Wyoming
Insurance Department and served as the Insurance Department’s liaison to the Governor’s Health
Care Reform Commission. She is also a former Executive Director of the Wyoming State Bar.
Mary Beth received her J.D. degree from St. John’s University in New York City. She has a B.A.
in English and Philosophy from Cabrini College in Radnor, Pennsylvania. She was the first
Cabrini alumnus to receive the College’s Ivy Young Willis Memorial Award, established to
honor women in public affairs. She is a New York City native.
OFFICE 850-413-5104 MOBILE 850-528-2778
FAX 850-488-2348 EMAIL MARYBETH.SENKEWICZ@FLOIR.COM