Douglas Simpson, Esq.

938 Ridge Road, Wethersfield, CT 06109

860-985-9464



Biographical Information



Mr. Simpson is a graduate of Dartmouth College (A.B. cum laude, 1970) and of the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with honors, 1975).  He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Era.  He practices law, consults to insurance companies and arbitrates commercial disputes.   For 25 years he was an attorney in the Law Department of The Hartford. 



Doug has served on the Governing Boards of four state insurance guaranty funds, on the Legal Committee of Guaranty Fund Management Services, on the Fraud Advisory Commission of the National Council on Compensation Insurance and on the Electronic Communications Study Committee of the Connecticut Law Revision Commission. 



Doug has been a panelist and presenter at professional and university seminars, on topics including insurance law, bankruptcy, privacy, antitrust compliance, business method patents, theft of trade secrets and the law of electronic signatures and e-business.  In June 2004, he moderated a panel on "Cyberthieves in Corporate Vaults" at the Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association.  He is a co-inventor of "Online method and system of fulfilling needs resulting from property and other similar losses," U.S. Patent No. 7,624,031.



Doug's practice is focused on property-casualty insurance regulation and general business and contract law.   He has provided compliance and operations counsel to the management of property-casualty insurance operations, including personal and commercial lines, excess and surplus lines, reinsurance and related financial services, and continues to consult on such topics.  He has taught undergraduate courses in business organizations, intellectual property law and insurance law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hartford and teaches a post-graduate course in Alternative Risk Transfer at the University of Connecticut School of Law’s Insurance Law Center. 



Doug is co-author of "Creating an Antitrust Compliance Program -- Checklist of Issues," Checklists for Corporate Counsel, (Business Laws, Inc., 1996), "Finite Risk Transfer:  May Be Habit Forming -- Use Only as Directed," Contingencies, (American Academy of Actuaries, Mar/Apr 2007) and private works on the subject of insurance law and regulation.  Notes on his continuing study of the intersection of insurance law, networks and disruptive technologies are published in his online research journal "Unintended Consequences," at DougSimpson.com  

Articles there include observations on terrorism and catastrophe risk transfer solutions, ongoing investigations into the use and abuse of finite reinsurance, the causes of major insurance company insolvencies, and a draft paper on controversies over the causes of the medical malpractice insurance crisis.