Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel, originally from Merrill, was elected on Dec. 15, 2013, to the post of Chair of the Midwest Zone of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The annual elections comprise the votes of the commissioners in the Zone.
The Midwest Zone is comprised of the insurance departments of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The Midwest Zone focuses on insurance issues that are paramount to Midwest area insurance regulators and ensures that those issues are brought up and discussed to the full committee.
Nickel will begin serving in this role in January of 2014.