David Mattax, the Texas insurance commissioner, died Thursday, according to Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home.
Mattax, who was 60, learned he had lung cancer in late 2015, according to the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas.
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Mattax was appointed to serve as the Texas commissioner in January 2015. He was elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, a group for state insurance commissioners, in December 2016. He was also the chairman of the NAIC's Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation Committee.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
