Ren L. Tundermann

As head of Funk & Bolton's insurance regulation practice group, Ms. Tundermann represents insurers, health maintenance organizations, dental plan organizations and nonprofit health service plans on regulatory and compliance issues before the Maryland Insurance Administration and state insurance departments throughout the United States. She also serves as Maryland regulatory counsel in business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, conversions and reorganizations of insurance companies, nonprofit health service plans and insurance holding companies, and in complex financing transactions involving insurance products.

Ms. Tundermann joined Funk & Bolton as an associate in 1998, became a member of the firm in 2000, and has headed the firm's insurance regulation practice group since 2001.

During law school, Ms. Tundermann served as an intern in the life and health insurance section of the Maryland Insurance Administration. Following graduation from law school, Ms. Tundermann was employed as an attorney in the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland representing the Maryland Insurance Administration. In 1997, she was appointed an Assistant Attorney General.

While an Assistant Attorney General, Ms. Tundermann was primarily responsible for advice and counsel to the Maryland Insurance Administration in matters of financial examination and auditing, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, demutualizations, dissolutions, taxation and receivership and insolvency. Ms. Tundermann also gave advice to the Insurance Commissioner and hearing officers on a variety of regulatory issues affecting the life and health and property and casualty insurance industries and drafted and reviewed legislation and regulations establishing and implementing insurance regulatory policy in Maryland. This broad public-sector experience enabled Ms. Tundermann to bring the perspective of an insurance regulator to the issues confronting the firm's clients when she joined Funk & Bolton in 1998.

In 1999, Ms. Tundermann organized The Alliance of Maryland Dental Plans, a state trade association for dental plans doing business in Maryland. She represents the Alliance before the Maryland General Assembly and the Maryland Insurance Administration. In 2003, the Alliance expanded its focus to the Commonwealth of Virginia, including the Virginia General Assembly and the Virginia Bureau of Insurance.

During her tenure at Funk & Bolton, Ms. Tundermann has also served as general counsel to the Injured Workers' Insurance Fund, the State of Maryland's workers' compensation fund.