Maine: Slim Majority Votes to Approve New Superintendent

The state Senate voted 18-17 to confirm the nomination of Mila Kofman to be Maine’s superintendent of insurance.

The Senate vote followed a vote of the Insurance and Financial Services Committee to approve Kofman’s nomination by a margin of 8-5, along party lines. A reversal of that approval would have required a two-thirds vote by the Senate. Kofman was openly opposed by some Republicans who expressed concern that she would come to the position with a set policy-driven agenda.

Kofman, who most recently served as an associate research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., will be up for reappointment in April 2009, since her initial appointment is to finish the balance of the five-year term of Al Iuppa, who resigned in January 2007.

Direct questions to NAMIC State Affairs Manager Paul Tetrault.

Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:00:00 AM. Modified: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:41:29 AM.

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