David Dokko Email & Phone Number

US

• Assistant Corporate Secretary for Board Committees
• Responsible for new entity formation and ongoing maintenance of Nationwide’s entities
• Manage insurance company licensing team, which involves expansion into new states as well as amendments to existing certificates of authority
• Lead legal entity management and simplification program, focusing on the efficient utilization of P&C companies and services entities
• Oversee governance operations and technology projects

US

• Led insurance company licensing team, which involves expansion into new states as well as amendments to existing certificates of authority
• Facilitated legal entity management and simplification program
• Collaborated with and provided legal advice to several business partners, including product leads, compliance, and controllership

US

• Responsible for Federal Reserve supervision, examination, and reporting requirements, along with state insurance corporate regulatory filings and financial examinations
• Led advocacy and development of corporate financial regulatory policy at both state and federal levels
• Collaborated with and provided legal advice to several business partners, including compliance, enterprise risk and capital management, internal audit, and controllership
• Supported corporate development activity by navigating regulatory filing requirements for mergers and acquisitions

Columbus, OH, US

• Led team of nine attorneys and support staff in serving victims of violent crime in Ohio
• Collaborated with leadership team to drive direction of the organization

• Specialized in alcoholic beverage law, which included transactional work, administrative law, regulatory compliance, litigation, franchise law, contracts, and government relations
• Defended clients through evidentiary hearings before the Liquor Control Commission
• Represented a wide variety of clients from small, independent establishments to publicly traded Fortune 10 corporations

• Managed a newly created team of two dozen individuals with focuses on audit, risk management, data analytics, HIPAA, regulatory compliance, and minimizing fraud, waste, and abuse
• Employed data analytics tools to identify aberrant health care utilization patterns in an effort to reduce improper payments in the $23.5 billion Ohio Medicaid program
• Led multiple RFP and RFI efforts for various multimillion dollar procurement projects
• Jointly developed a Medicare-Medicaid data matching pilot project with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Chaired multidisciplinary and multiagency groups to combat fraud, waste, and abuse, and to create efficiencies between agencies
• Leveraged my understanding of health care law and policy to bridge gaps between state departments

• Provided legal counsel in various areas of Medicaid and health law and policy including provider agreement terminations, hospitals, managed care plans, transportation, durable medical equipment, dental, vision.
• Assessed and managed risk concerning various policy implementations and decisions regarding provider terminations and suspensions
• Managed litigation in civil, administrative, and criminal settings, including a lawsuit against the state that involved an $8 billion per year procurement contract
• Advised program areas on implementing portions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Helped draft and edit statutes and rules related to Ohio Medicaid law and the Department’s budget

Columbus, OH, US

• Provided legal advice and conducted complex litigation on behalf of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
• Brought original enforcement actions against environmental law violators throughout Ohio state courts, as well as defended actions of Director of Ohio EPA before Environmental Review Appeals Commission and Federal.
• Successfully defended Ohio EPA in multi-day, multi-party hearing where outcome would decide future of commercial shipping operations in Toledo Harbor
• Negotiated significant settlement with major Class I railway system
• Acquired an understanding of both federal and state environmental laws and the nuanced relationship between both sets of laws

Columbus, OH, US

• Provided legal advice and conducted litigation on behalf of several state departments and agencies, including the Department Public Safety, Division of Liquor Control, and Liquor Control Commission
• Tried hundreds of administrative hearings before the Ohio Liquor Control Commission
• Made oral arguments and drafted briefs and memoranda in Ohio Supreme Court, Appellate District Courts, and Courts of Common Pleas
• Presented to various municipal and county prosecutors and local law enforcement on alcoholic beverage law compliance
• Docketed cases for Ohio Liquor Control Commission hearings and assigned cases to other AAGs

Juris Doctor, Law

Ba, Zoology (Pre-Med)

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