Robin Westcott

Biography

Robin Smith Westcott is currently serving as the Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate, having been appointed to the post in July 2011 by Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Atwater. Robin began her legal career in 1993 with the Florida Department of Insurance, Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation as an attorney handling legal matters relating to the receivership estates of insolvent companies. Robin served with the Receiver until 2001 when she left to enter private practice. Robin returned to the public sector in 2002 with the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation where she served as Assistant General Counsel and Counsel to the Florida Partnership for School Readiness. In 2004, Robin returned to the Office of Insurance Regulation as an Assistant General Counsel. Robin was appointed as the Director of Property and Casualty Financial Oversight in 2007 and served as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Property & Casualty prior to being selected by CFO’s Atwater to serve as Executive Director for the Medicaid and Public Assistance Strike Force in March 2011.

As Florida’s Consumer Advocate, Robin has sought to engage with consumers of our state to identify broad public policy insurance issues that deserve redress and bring facts, data and analysis to assist policymakers in developing good public policy to respond to these issues.

Robin earned a Juris Doctor from The Florida State University College of Law and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1993. She received her Bachelors of Science from Florida State University in 1991.

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