Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen announced that Jared Kirby has been appointed as deputy insurance commissioner for Market Regulation. In that position, he will lead the Iowa Insurance Division’s Market Regulation, Fraud, Consumer Advocacy Office and Enforcement Bureaus. He will also represent Iowa at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the North American Securities Administrators Association. He has been a law enforcement officer in the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau since 2006, leading the Fraud Bureau as chief since 2014.  He has also been the division’s Market Regulation Bureau supervisor since January 2017 and Consumer Advocacy Office supervisor since March 2019. Before working for the Iowa Insurance Division, Kirby was a police officer for the Centerville and Johnston police departments.