Insurance Commissioner Comes Back From Job In Iraq
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens
is happy to be in one piece after returning from a two-month trip
to Iraq. But he said he wouldn`t mind going back to the war-torn
country because of its peaceful parts.
Pickens went to Iraq to design insurance laws that comply with
international codes. His work has already been approved by the
Iraqi finance minister and are expected to be passed after the US
transfer of power next week.
Pickens used saved up vacation time to work for Bearing Point of
McLean, Virginia, a British insurance regulator and officials from
Baghdad`s seven main insurance comapnies.
Although he is a state government employee, Pickens was acting
as a private contractor while in Iraq and that worried his family
-- several private contractors have been taken hostage and killed
by insurgents.
