Public Actuary Martin Simons Dead at 76

Martin Simons, a public consulting actuary who frequently testified as a consumer advocate during workers’ compensation rate hearings, died on Aug. 23 in Columbia, South Carolina. He was 76. Simons was instrumental in battling the National Council on Compensation Insurance over rate filings from 2006 to 2009. On Wednesday, NCCI State Relations Executive Amy Benck Quinn wrote a tribute to him the Linkedin professional networking site. “Even as adversaries in our professional lives, we developed a friendship that I’ll always treasure,” Quinn wrote. “I lea...