Barry Senterfitt

Practice Areas

Insurance

Health Care & FDA Practice

Regulatory & Compliance

Banking & Financial Services

Insurance Regulatory & Transactions

Career

Barry Senterfitt focuses his practice on the insurance and managed care industries. His practice includes assisting clients with acquisitions and mergers of insurers, HMOs and insurance agencies; holding company transactions for insurers and HMOs, including state insurance holding company act compliance; HMO formation and licensure; insurance company formation and licensure, including offshore captives; redomestications of insurers; demutualizations and other complex corporate reorganizations; financial and reinsurance issues for insurers and HMOs; and plans of rehabilitation for insolvent or troubled insurers.

Barry has experience designing and structuring innovative insurance marketing/distribution systems; acquisitions of insurance charters out of receivership; regulatory issues for life, health and property/casualty insurers and Medicaid and Medicare insurers/HMOs; formations of insurance purchasing cooperatives; risk-based capital requirements for insurers and corporate restructuring relating thereto; insurance asset sales through assumption and portfolio reinsurance; regulatory issues affecting health care provider groups; and product design and approval for insurers and HMOs.

Professional Memberships

-Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation.

-Member, American Bar Association.

-Member, Surplus Lines Law Group.

-Former Board Member, SafePlace.

-Former President, CASA of Travis County.

-Former Vice Chair, ABA Committee on the Public Regulation of Insurance Law.

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2021-2022.

Personal

J.D., with honors, Texas Tech University School of Law, 1986.

B.B.A., Accounting, with honors, Texas A&M University, 1983.