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Former Insurance Chief Julie Benafield Opens Consulting Firm

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Julie Benafield recently founded The Benafield Group PLLC after more than 20 years of working for large institutions, from the state of Arkansas to UnitedHealthcare.

The Benafield Group offers consulting on government affairs and regulatory issues.

Benafield, who has served as the CEO of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner and a regulatory affairs specialist for UnitedHealthcare, expects a good deal of her business to focus on helping people and businesses navigate the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

About her focus on public policy, Benafield said, “I think it’s so important, especially in Arkansas, being a small state. I feel strongly about those [insurance] issues as far as the balance between the insurance industry and the consumer.”

Benafield’s plans for the immediate future of her business are modest. She’s working out of her home and, needing assistance with research, hopes to get her daughter involved in the business. Still, looking over her background, especially her time in UnitedHealthcare, she notes that she has contacts in many states and expects to be branching out to work in other states in the future, though she’s “very biased toward Arkansas.”

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