 On
February 17, 2007, Florida Chief Financial Officer
Alex Sink appointed former Comptroller and General
Bob Milligan as Florida’s Insurance Consumer
Advocate.
Lieutenant General Robert Milligan (USMC Ret.) holds
a distinguished record of 39 years of military
experience. He retired as a Lieutenant General in
1991.
General Milligan served
in the U.S. Marine Corps for 35 years, rising to the
rank of three-star general before being elected
Florida’s Comptroller in 1994 and serving until
2003. As a member of the Florida Cabinet, General
Milligan helped create the current position of Chief
Financial Officer. General Milligan has a reputation
as an independent leader who puts people ahead of
politics.
As
Consumer Advocate, Bob Milligan serves as a standing
member of the following boards and commissions:
Statewide Subscriber Assistance Panel
Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology
Commission
Workers Comp JUA
Florida Workers’ Compensation
Insurance Guaranty Association
NCCI Workers Comp Appeals Board
Surplus Lines Service Office
He also
attends hearings conducted by the Office of Insurance
Regulation, the Office of Financial Regulation and the
Division of Administrative Hearings. Bob Milligan fills
the CFO’s vision of a proactive advocate for Florida
insurance consumers. His oversight responsibilities
include insurance rates, market conduct, affordability
and accessibility as well as quality and appropriateness
of insurance products and services.
General
Milligan serves on the Board of Directors of The
Institute of Senior Professionals, Okaloosa-Walton
College, and was appointed to the Volunteer Services
Commission by Governor Jeb Bush on December 15, 2005.
Doing what is right, not
what is political, is the standing order of the day
under Milligan's leadership.
Robert F. "Bob" Milligan,
was born on December 12, 1932, one of seven children
reared on a small farm in New Jersey.
He earned a B.S. degree in
engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, a
masters degree in business administration (Defense
Systems Analysis-Economics) at the University of
Rochester and studied economics at the doctoral level at
the University of Maryland.
Bob Milligan and his wife
June, who have four grown children, now reside in
Tallahassee. |
