Greg is a member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel and he also chairs the Insurance Regulatory practice group of Multilaw, an international association of law firms located in 150 commercial centers throughout the world.

Insurance Business Experience:

• Development and approval of national insurance/extended warranty/service contract products and programs, including distribution, marketing and compensation systems.
• Formation and authorization of various types of risk bearing entities, including domestic and off-shore captives, risk retention groups, risk purchasing group, captive/risk retention groups, life and property and casualty insurers, as well as group and self-insurers.
• Insurance producer licensing, business entity licensing and limited lines licensing and design of regional, national and international insurance product distribution systems, including call center operations.
• Holding company system filings and licensing, as well as preparation of insurance management and outsourcing agreements.
• Market conduct, special target examinations and other type of investigations by state and federal regulators, including MAWG actions.
• Counsel for over 120 former members of the Kentucky workers’ compensation group self-insurance fund, AIK Comp in Rehabilitation.
• Counsel for numerous insurers affected by the liquidations of Reciprocal of America, Legion and Reliance, as well as other domestic and off-shore insolvencies.
• Lead counsel on the liquidation and related litigation of the National Business Association Trust/National Benefit Administrators, Inc., a Kentucky unauthorized insurer doing business in 22 states.
• Handled general litigation matters for the estate, including claims administration, document retention/depository, asset management, coordination with the departments of insurance, and reports to the Court, as well as acted as lead counsel in numerous adversary proceedings, including officer-director suits, preference and collection actions.
• Coordination counsel on the liquidation of Kentucky Central Life Insurance Company.
• Handled general rehabilitation/liquidation matters for the estate, including claims administration, document retention/ depository, asset management, coordination with NOLHGA, and reports to the Court, as well as acted as lead counsel in numerous adversary proceedings, including multi-million dollar preference actions, foreclosures, and collection actions. Also special counsel in actions against officers, directors and auditors.
• Oral argument before the 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning an unauthorized insurance MEWA, insurance insolvency, ERISA and application of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

Insurance Insolvencies:

• American Chambers Life Insurance Company
• AIK Comp
• Frontier
• Legion/Mutual Risk Management Ltd
• Reciprocal of America/The Reciprocal Group
• First Virginia Re
• Doctors Insurance Reciprocal Group
• Mutual Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd
• Reliance
• Numerous issues for various parties to the insolvency proceedings of admitted carriers and other risk bearing entities, including captives

Greg’s practice is concentrated in the areas of international regulation and trade compliance (export/import, dumping/trade remedies, customs, licensing and technology transfer, sale/labeling/regulation of goods, foreign investment, structuring of international sales and manufacturing operations, distributorships and joint ventures) and insurance/risk management.

Prior to joining the predecessor to Frost Brown Todd LLC, He was associated with the High-Technology/International Trade Practice Group of Buchanan Ingersoll, P.C. and with American Export Group International Services, Inc., a Washington D.C./Baltimore based export corporation doing business mainly in Western Europe and the Middle East.

Experience:

• Counsel on numerous foreign investment transactions and related regulatory compliance in the EEC, South America, Mexico, Canada, the former Soviet Union, Pakistan, India, China and South Africa among others.
• Counsel in defense of multi-million dollar customs criminal investigation involving allegations of violations of the Tariff Act of 1933, the Buy-American Act, among others.
• Counsel in numerous anti-dumping investigations, several gray market good investigations and numerous compliance audits and training presentations relating to export/import issues.
• Counsel on numerous trade compliance and regulatory internal investigations.
• Counsels clients in import and export operations, including establishment of trade compliance programs and voluntary disclosure issues before the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
• Counsels clients in all aspects of international trade and regulatory compliance, including acting as outside regulatory counsel.
• Counsel on numerous foreign investment transactions, including off-shore alternative risk transfer entities

Lead counsel on numerous MAWG actions, and multi-state department investigations, corrective action plans and regulatory settlement agreements.

Counsel for 24 Kentucky hospitals in the second largest case ever tried before the Virginia corporation in the Reciprocal of America insurance insolvency proceeding, which included issues on the guaranty fund system and definition of insurance.

Lead counsel on the development and regulatory compliance of numerous specialty insurance programs

Lead counsel of the formation of numerous captive and alternative risk financing entities, both in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions

Lead counsel on numerous commercial foreclosures/workouts involving multi-million dollar loans, receiverships and lender liability defense issues for various lending institutions, the FDIC, RTC and liquidators

Counsel on numerous foreign investment transactions

Trial counsel with Grant Cowan in the Nowicki litigation which resulted in $17.3 million judgment (at the time – second largest jury verdict in Eastern District of Kentucky)