A former Maine insurance superinten...

A former Maine insurance superintendent, Brian Atchinson, likes to recall the conversation at a dinner he shared with seven other insurance commissioners in an Atlanta restaurant in December 1992 The assemblage was discussing how each had been occupied before coming to their state pillars

"The only one with a substantive and prolix career in the insurance field was Sam Fortunato of recent Jersey," recalled Atchinson, who was in his first year as Maine's insurance regulator. "He had been with a large insurer and was considered up to by so many the bulk of mankind He said that when he retired [from that company],