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Loretta Worters is vice president of Communications for the Insurance Information Institute. As a national spokesperson for the property and casualty insurance industry, she is frequently quoted in leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune and U.S. News & World Report, and appears regularly on television networks including ABC, CNBC, CNN and Fox.

Ms. Worters focuses on major strategic issues confronting the insurance industry from the industry’s response to 9/11 and the availability of terrorism coverage to the cost of asbestos litigation and mold claims and market conditions.

She serves as the industry’s chief crisis communications officer, developing and implementing disaster communications plans and working with national media during such catastrophes as Hurricane Katrina, the California Wildfires, 9/11, the Los Angeles riots, Hurricane Andrew, the Northridge Earthquake and the aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Ms. Worters headed up the Community Outreach Program directed by former Vice President Al Gore. She developed and distributed a survey to insurance companies nationwide on community outreach activities of the industry and analyzed the survey results to be used by Vice President Gore in a model program to encourage other industries to be good corporate citizens.

Ms. Worters has more than 20 years of public relations experience, having served in the transportation field with Scandinavian Airlines and in the financial services industry with Dean Witter Reynolds. She has an M.A. in Communications from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in Journalism from Dowling College. She is also a member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). She has worked for the I.I.I. since 1987.