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Beth Kravetz joined MGL Consulting in 2007 and serves as the Executive Vice President, Insurance Licensing. Her responsibilities include oversight for Purchasing Group registrations and renewals along with consulting services on related matters including Surplus Lines Tax Filings.Ms. Kravetz is a nationally recognized insurance attorney who has specialized in the legislative and regulatory aspects of insurance for more than 25 years, having represented insurance regulators, insurance agents and brokers, insurance companies and insurance consumers.Ms. Kravetz is the author of The Insider's Guide to the Risk Retention Act and co-author of The Captives Insurance Manual. An authority in the area of risk retention and purchasing groups, she has written numerous articles on the Risk Retention Act and has been a featured speaker at many seminars on this subject. She was an active participant in the passage of the original Risk Retention Act of 1981 and was involved in the enactment of the 1983 and 1986 amendments. She wrote the original model act adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) for use by the states and served on the 1987 NAIC Advisory Committee drafting the amendments to the state model law.In private law practice since 1987, she provides consultation on the formation and operation of risk retention groups and purchasing groups and currently represents more than 50 purchasing groups. In addition to her expertise in the area of risk retention and purchasing groups, Ms. Kravetz has written and spoken extensively on other insurance topics as well. She has been an adjunct professor of law at her alma mater, the Georgetown University Law Center, and also at the Washington College of Law of the American University, teaching insurance law at both schools.Ms. Kravetz's practice also involves international insurance issues. She has been an advisor to the government of Anguilla (in the British West Indies) on establishing an off-shore insurance center and served as a mayoral appointment on the DC commission on International Insurance. Her clients also include non-U.S. insurers and brokers. Ms. Kravetz also specializes in government relations, and is skilled in trade association management and law. Ms. Kravetz graduated from Georgetown University Law Center with a J.D. in 1974 and the University of Wisconsin Masters Program in 1970-71. Her undergraduate work was at the Florida Atlantic University. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. | 