Conway named interim state insurance commissioner

DENVER —  Marguerite Salazar will relinquish one of her two jobs at the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

Salazar, who was appointed insurance commissioner by Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2013, has been serving in two roles since her appointment as DORA’s executive director in July 2017. Salazar has chosen to step down as commissioner to focus exclusively on being DORA’s executive director.

Michael Conway has been selected by Hickenlooper to serve as interim insurance commissioner, effective Jan. 1. As insurance commissioner, Conway will also head the Division of Insurance, part of DORA.

Conway has been at the DOI since March 2016, serving as deputy commissioner for Consumer and Compliance Services. He guided the DOI’s strategies for retaining health-insurance companies on Colorado’s individual market for 2018, making Colorado one of a handful of states to go into 2018 with the same on-exchange lineup of companies as in 2017. He came to the DOI from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, where he served as an assistant attorney general in the Insurance Unit for approximately six years.

“Furthering the work that Marguerite has done for the division will be my priority,” Conway said in a prepared statement. “We’ve weathered some serious storms in recent years, and I’m sure the coming year won’t be any different. But I know the entire DOI team is up to the challenge.”

Conway will serve through the remainder of Gov. Hickenlooper’s term, which ends in 2018.

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