Dan Lowndes Email & Phone Number

In 1989, I graduated from Marquette with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Business Administration. I immediately went to work for a company now known as Fortis, selling insurance and mutual funds in the suburbs of Chicago. I took that experience to Peterson Bank, a small family-run business just outside of Skokie, Illinois. There, I administered their employee benefits package, which was partially self-insured.In 1992, I entered DePaul University School of Law to study health law. During third year, I became the Managing Editor of the Journal of Health and Hospital Law, the then monthly publication for what is now the American Health Lawyers Association.In 1993, I clerked in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Office of Welfare Litigation and became a Special Assistant Attorney General upon admission to the Illinois Bar in 1995.I moved to Madison in 1996 to work in private practice, then as in-house counsel for a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping people with physical disabilities in their own homes and communities. Since 2008, I have been the Risk Manager for Dane County, overseeing our self-insured workers' compensation program as well as al other lines of coverage (general liability, property, professional liability, etc.). After 15 years in government, I returned to the private sector and am currently managing the Third Party Administrator program for the League of Wisconsin Municipalities Mutual Insurance (LWMMI) at Rural Insurance.Specialties: I have worked insurance from all sides: sales, operations, government, non-profit and defense.

Listed skills include Policy, Workers Compensation, Litigation, Employee Benefits, and 11 others.

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  Managing Attorney

  Rural Mutual Insurance Company

  Nov 2023 - Present - Madison, Wisconsin, United States