Tim Ryles Consulting

BUSINESS

Tim Ryles Consulting. Insurance regulation, litigation support, government relations, consumer protection; Associate, Robert Hughes Associates, Dallas, TX; part owner, InvestInsure Insurance Agency, Atlanta.

GOVERNMENT AND REGULATORY EXPERIENCE

Georgia Commissioner of Insurance, January 1991-January 1995, an office that also carries the titles of Industrial Loan Commissioner, Fire Safety Commissioner and Comptroller General; Administrator, Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, 1975-1981; Statutory Advisory Committee & State Liaison Officer, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission; President and Vice President, National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators; Executive Committee, NAIC; First Chair, NAIC Anti-Fraud Committee; Chairman, Georgia Coalition for Consumer Rights; Board of Directors, National Consumer Symposium, Tucson, AZ and Georgia Consumer Center; Consumer Rights and Remedies Committee, State bar of GA.

EDUCATION, TEACHING EXPERIENCE & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Georgia; B.S., Troy State College, Troy, AL. Academic areas include Public Law, Public Administration, American Politics, statistical analysis (parametric and nonparametric), and survey research; Taught Political Science at the University of Georgia (three years), Georgia State University (seven years), and Mercer University (appx. two years); Graduate Faculty at Georgia State, tenured faculty; American Risk and Insurance Association; NAIC Passe Club; Insurance Section, Texas Bar Association.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

Director, Common Sense Trust Mutual Funds, a joint venture of the A.L. Williams Company of Duluth, GA and American Capital of Houston, TX; Atlanta Health Care Alliance Board of Directors (five years); BellSouth Health Care Cost Containment Committee; Member of BellSouth-CWA Contract Bargaining teams of 1986 and 1989; BellSouth-CWA Employment Security Advisory Board; Governor's Health Care Commission.

PUBLICATIONS, NEWSPAPER COLUMNS AND BROADCAST COMMENTARIES

Author "Consumer Contact" column for several newspapers; Commentator, WGTV public television's "Money Line" Program.

"How The Insurance Commissioner Views The No-Fault Bill," in Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Life After No-Fault (Atlanta, GA: Continuing Legal Education Series, October 4, 1991), pp. 49-63. "The Death Spiral : It's Time to Kill It." RHA Review, Dallas, TX, (Vol. 4, No.1, 1997). "Why Choice No-Fault Fails." Law Reporter: Journal of the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii, (July, 1997). "The Filed Rate Doctrine: A Trojan Horse for Insurers?" RHA Review, Dallas, TX (Vol. 5, No. 1, 1998). "The Role of the Expert Witness in Insurance Litigation." West's Insurance Law Review (forthcoming).

Coordinator/Editor of the following works on consumer law for the U.S. Department of Commerce, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office: Advertising, Packaging And Labeling; Consumer Product Safety; Product Warranties And Servicing; Managing Consumer Complaints; and Credit And Financial Issues.

LECTURES, SPEECHES, SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAMS, LEGISLATIVE TESTIMONY

Two lecture tours of India for U.S. government; Lectured in several universities and professional/trade association conferences, including University of Moscow; Byelorussian State University in Mensk, Belarus; American Bar Association; American Law Firm Association; American Trial Lawyers Association; National Conference of State Legislatures; Progressive Insurance Company. Testified before the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, several state legislative bodies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Please Call: 770-493-8643

Please Call: 770-493-8643