Robert W. Hogeboom

Robert W. Hogeboom is a senior partner in the Los Angeles office of Barger & Wolen LLP.  He has been an insurance regulatory specialist since 1975, dealing exclusively with insurance regulatory, corporate and administrative matters.  Prior to his legal career, he served as Assistant to the Campaign Director of then Governor Ronald Reagan’s second gubernatorial campaign.

Mr. Hogeboom’s practice involves all aspects of insurance regulatory and administrative law, including transactional work, financial analysis, market conduct examinations, rate filings and hearings, disciplinary matters and insolvency issues.  He represents numerous insurer and producer clients on regulatory and administrative matters.  He has handled over 50 hearings involving disciplinary matters for producers and rate hearings and non-compliance actions for insurers before the California Department of Insurance and Office of Administrative Hearings.  Following the passage of Proposition 103 in California in 1988, he along with Kent Keller and Steven Weinstein represented 63 insurers in connection with various administrative proceedings relating to insurer mandatory rate rollbacks, prior approval requirements and the development of the Proposition 103-related regulations.  Mr. Hogeboom has also organized or acquired over thirty insurance companies for clients and counsels insurers on regulatory and corporate matters. 

Mr. Hogeboom has been a member of several California Department of Insurance task forces involving rate regulation and insurance producers.  He has served as outside special counsel to The Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, a California trade association comprised of insurance brokers and agents.  He serves as the firm’s liaison to prominent insurer trade associations such as the Association of California Insurance Companies and Pacific Association of Domestic Insurance Companies.

He is one of the founding members of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, a national group of prominent insurance regulatory counsel.  He served as its President from June 2000 – June 2001.  In 1990, Mr. Hogeboom served as President of the Conference of Insurance Counsel, a group comprised of regulatory counsel in southern California.  He is also an approved lecturer on insurance matters for continuing education programs.  Mr. Hogeboom has written numerous published articles on insurance law matters including chapters on the topics “The California Insurance Holding Company Act”, “Regulation of Insurer Investments” and “Operation of Life and Disability Insurance Carriers” in the Matthew Bender publication California Insurance Law & Practice.  He has also authored articles involving market conduct settlements, consumer complaint regulations, broker fees and the federal Liability Risk Retention Act.  Mr. Hogeboom has participated in numerous insurance seminars on various insurance regulatory topics and has been a featured speaker at insurance and education events, including the Association of California Insurance Companies, the Alliance of Insurance Agents and Brokers, the Federation of Regulatory Counsel and the Conference of Insurance Counsel.