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Biography
Matt’s insurance practice is increasingly national in scope, and encompasses regulatory, transactional, and administrative matters. His touches on all aspects of insurance regulation, including obtaining regulatory approvals for acquisitions of companies and blocks of business, expansions, holding company transactions and filings, licensing, product and policy development, reinsurance, examinations, and investigations, and general corporate matters.
Matt serves as general outside counsel to several insurers and other entities engaged in the business of insurance, and he is one of three Pennsylvania members selected for membership in the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, a multi-national association of lawyers who have significant experience in the practice of insurance regulatory and corporate law. He currently serves as an At-Large member of the FORC Board of Directors.
Matt’s insurance regulation includes:
- Acting as counsel to insurers (and agencies) in connection with entity acquisitions.
- Preparing and securing regulatory approval of Form As and disclaimers of control (as well as Form E and related exemption filings).
- Serving as counsel in connection with capital raising in insurance entities.
- Facilitating mutual insurer transactions, conversions, and affiliations.
- Preparing holding company filings and Enterprise Risk Reports.
- Obtaining Form D approvals for affiliate transactions.
- Handling insurer conversions, mergers, and re-domestications.
- Managing insurer licensing and expansion projects through the UCAA filing process.
- Setting up licensure for risk purchasing groups.
- Representing licensees in examinations and enforcement.
- Supporting insurance company rehabilitation and liquidation claims.
Recent Representative Matters
- Counsel to Freedom Advantage Insurance Company in connection with its acquisition of Michigan Commercial Insurance Mutual upon its conversion from mutual to stock form (and renaming to iQUE Insurance Company);
- Counsel to The N&D Group in connection with its mutual affiliation with Union Mutual;
- Counsel to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co. in connection with its acquisition of farmowner’s renewal rights from Global Indemnity, and its acquisition of American Reliable Insurance Company, from Global Indemnity;
- Counsel to Freedom Advantage Insurance Company in connection with its acquisition of Great Falls Insurance Company;
- Counsel to Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co. in several renewal rights transactions;
- Counsel to Freedom Advantage Insurance Company in connection with its acquisition of Alaska Timber Insurance Company;
- Counsel to Trisura Specialty Insurance Company in connection with its acquisition and re-domestication of 21st Century Preferred from Farmers;
- Counsel to Hudson Insurance Company in connection with its acquisition of Allegheny Surety Company.
Practices & Industries
Education
- Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law, J.D., Appellate Moot Court Board & Comments Editor, Law Review
- Pennsylvania State University, B.A., English
Professional
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Dauphin County Bar Association
Court Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- S. District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania
- S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (pro hac vice)
- S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Articles by Coble, Matthew D.
Mette, Evans & Woodside Serves As Counsel to Everett Cash Mutual In Insurance Company in its Acquisition of Farm, Ranch, and Esquire Renewal Business
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Mobile Deposit Patent Lawsuit
A United States District Court in Texas recently awarded United Services Automobile Association (“USAA”) a $102.8 million verdict against Wells Fargo in a mobile deposit patent lawsuit filed in August...
Matthew D. Coble Joins Mette, Evans & Woodside
Mette, Evans & Woodside announced that attorney Matt Coble has joined the firm as shareholder. Matt represents insurance companies, fraternal benefit societies, insurance producers (individuals and agents), reinsurers, third party...