Paula Pallozzi joined AIPSO in August 2020 as AIPSO’s first Regulatory Affairs Director. AIPSO provides critical services to the Automobile Insurance Residual Markets across the country from plan management and administration to rate filings, manual revisions, financial and statistical analysis to name a few. Paula serves as AIPSO’s liaison with state insurance regulatory authorities and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She collaborates with AIPSO’s Legal & Compliance Services team, Residual Market Governing Committees, and other AIPSO departments/units to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations on both the state and federal level.

Paula has an extensive body of insurance regulatory experience spanning over 37 years with the Rhode Island Insurance Division. She began her career in 1982 as an entry level licensing examiner and rose through the ranks to Associate Director. In that capacity, she was responsible for consumer services & policy forms and rate filings unit, and assisted in the drafting of regulations and legislation, and testified before Rhode Island’s General Assembly.

Paula has served on various boards and commissions at both the state and national levels. She represented Rhode Island on NAIC working groups working with state insurance regulators from across the country and collaborated with industry and consumer groups on a myriad of property and casualty issues. Paula served as the RI Insurance Division’s ex officio representative on the Rhode Island Automobile Insurance Plan’s Governing Committee, the RI Worker’s Compensation Advisory Council, and the RI Property & Casualty Guaranty Fund to name a few. After retiring from the Rhode Island DOI in March 2019, Paula joined the NAIC as a Consultant where she assisted in promoting and growing participation in the NAIC Insurance Regulator Professional Designation Program, which augments the necessary talent, tools, and resources required by state Insurance Departments.

Paula is a long-standing AICP member, both as a regulator where she participated in numerous regulator panel sessions and now as an Industry member. Paula serves as Chair of AICP’s Student Engagement Committee and is an active member of the AICP New England Chapter.

Paula graduated Cum Laude with a major in Accounting from the University of Rhode Island in 1982, and earned two professional designations from the NAIC, Associate Professional in Insurance Regulation and Senior Professional in Insurance Regulation. In 2007 Paula was the recipient of the NAIC Paul DeAngelo Professional Development Scholarship. In 2017, Paula was awarded the NAIC’s Robert Dineen Award, recognized for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance. Paula resides in Providence RI, is married with 2 adult children and 2 grandchildren.