John C. Lobert

John C. Lobert

JD, CPCU, ARe

Advisory Council Member
Faculty
back to team John C. Lobert is an insurance lawyer specializing in legislative and regulatory affairs. He formerly served as senior vice president – state legislative affairs for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, a national trade association formed by the merger of the Alliance of American Insurers and the National Association of Independent Insurers. John has received his Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter and Associate in Reinsurance designations and is a member of the American Society of Association Executives. 

A 1969 graduate of the West Virginia University College of Law, John served as a law clerk to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals until 1971, when he entered the private practice of law in Charleston, West Virginia.

As part of his practice, John was a lobbyist for life, health, and property and casualty insurers, served as counsel to both the West Virginia Property and Casualty Guaranty Fund and the West Virginia Life and Health Guaranty Fund, and was executive vice president and general counsel of the West Virginia Insurance Federation and executive director of the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel Association. In 1987, he joined Aetna Life & Casualty in Hartford, Connecticut, as assistant vice president and state government affairs counsel. In early 1992, he went to the Erie Insurance Group of Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was vice president and counsel and manager of government affairs until July 1994, at which time he was appointed senior vice president of government relations for the National Association of Independent Insurers, in charge of the organization’s Washington lobbying office. Finally, in 1998, John was appointed senior vice president of state government affairs for the Alliance of American Insurers in Downers Grove, Illinois, a position that he held until the PCI merger.

John’s company, Lobert Legislative & Regulatory Consulting, is a full service legislative, regulatory, litigation, and communications consulting firm with over 30 years’ experience representing the insurance and reinsurance industries.He is also a member of the United States Supreme Court bar and is admitted to practice in the United States Tax Court, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Bankruptcy Court, and a number of federal district courts. He is admitted to the bar in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

John has three grown children, and he and his wife, Pam, are residents of Lisle, Illinois.