" class="no-js "lang="en-US"> Former Chief Insurance Regulator Scott Fischer Joins Lemonade
Friday, March 29, 2024

New York’s Former Chief Insurance Regulator Scott Fischer Joins Lemonade

Lemonade, the digital insurance company powered by social impact, today announced the appointment of Scott Fischer as Head of Government Relations and co-General Counsel of Lemonade Insurance Company.

As Lemonade’s first Head of Government Relations, Fischer will provide strategic counsel regarding laws and regulations impacting the company and guide strategy around relationships with key stakeholders throughout the insurance regulatory community. In addition to serving as Head of Government Relations, Fischer will serve as co-General Counsel alongside Bill Latza. Latza, who has been a core part of Lemonade’s team from its very beginning, plans to retire at year-end.

“Scott played a make-or-break role in Lemonade’s early days, as the regulator who scrutinized our business, gave us a hard time, and ultimately gave us our license!” said Daniel Schreiber, Lemonade CEO and cofounder. “He was a thoughtful, fair minded, and exacting regulator, and his deep familiarity with insurance regulation on the one hand, and Lemonade on the other, make him the ideal leader of our government relations efforts.”

Most recently, Fischer was a partner at global law firm DLA Piper, where he represented international, national, and local insurers and producers in their regulatory and compliance activities. Most notably, Fischer worked with New York’s insurance regulator for nearly 10 years, ultimately becoming the top insurance regulator by serving as the executive deputy superintendent for insurance in the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) before departing the public sector. During his tenure at the NYSDFS, Fischer led a unit supervising approximately 1,700 insurers operating in New York with assets exceeding $4 trillion.

“I spent years regulating an industry that’s been operating the same way because, simply put, that’s the way it’s always been done. Not with Lemonade,” said Fischer. “They’ve been challenging this orthodoxy since day one when I granted their license to operate in New York. Now things have come full circle, and I get to be part of the fun, helping Lemonade grow and reimagine the industry in a tech-first world.”

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