Join the EBPA for December 4
Your Favorite Festive Attire Encouraged!
Get your favorite holiday attire ready - those beautiful shiny Holiday Shoes you've just been waiting to show off - that Santa Hat or other headwear (reindeer horns are permitted). Maybe that gorgeous (or ugly) Holiday Sweater. Or whoever you feel shows your Holiday Spirit - and join in the festivities as well and learn a thing or two!
Event Details:
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Location: Washington Athletic Club,1325 6th Ave., Seattle, WA
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025
Location: Washington Athletic Club,1325 6th Ave., Seattle, WA
Schedule:
7:20 - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45am Fireside Chat with Patty Kuderer, OIC 8:45 - 9:00am Networking Break 9:00 - 9:50am Legislative Updates with Gary Strannigan, Premera 9:50 - 10:00am Q&A
7:20 - 7:45am Registration & Breakfast
7:45 - 8:45am Fireside Chat with Patty Kuderer, OIC
8:45 - 9:00am Networking Break
9:00 - 9:50am Legislative Updates with Gary Strannigan, Premera
9:50 - 10:00am Q&A
Registration:
$70 Members/$95 EBPA Members - Before 12/02 $100 Members/$125 Non-members & Guests after 12/02 $140 New & Renewing Members + Event Registration ** Online registration deadline is Tuesday, December 2, 2025. If you miss the online registration, call the office 206.653.7259. No refunds or credit for future meeting granted after the deadline.
$70 Members/$95 EBPA Members - Before 12/02
$100 Members/$125 Non-members & Guests after 12/02
$140 New & Renewing Members + Event Registration **
Online registration deadline is Tuesday, December 2, 2025. If you miss the online registration, call the office 206.653.7259. No refunds or credit for future meeting granted after the deadline.
Featured Speakers:
Senator Patty Kuderer 48th Legislative District D-Bellevue
Senator Patty Kuderer
48th Legislative District
D-Bellevue
Patty Kuderer was elected in 2024 as Washington’s ninth insurance commissioner. As insurance commissioner, Kuderer is committed to protecting consumers, promoting transparency and fairness in the insurance market, and advocating for expanded access to affordable healthcare. Kuderer’s current priorities include providing restitution to policyholders who are harmed and exploring innovative, collaborative pathways to reach universal health care. She’s also raising awareness of climate change, monitoring how it affects the insurance industry, and encouraging mitigation practices like building more resilient communities. Kuderer was chosen by her peers to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Western Zone Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which also gives her a seat on the NAIC’s Executive Committee. Prior to taking office as commissioner, Kuderer served for almost a decade in the Washington State Legislature. She was appointed to the state House in 2015 and then became the 48th Legislative District’s first female state Senator in 2017. During her time in the Legislature, she championed consumer and worker protections, common sense gun legislation, increasing access to affordable housing and worked to reform Washington’s health care system. Kuderer also has extensive legal experience as a trial attorney, including serving as a former prosecutor, city attorney and in private practice. She has handled public records, employment discrimination and serious injury cases, as well as argued before Minnesota Appellate and State Supreme Courts. Kuderer grew up in Minnesota and is one of nine children. She earned a law degree from the William Mitchell College of Law and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Minnesota. She has lived in King County’s Eastside for over two decades, raising her two (now grown) children. Gary Strannigan Vice President Congressional / Legislative Affairs Premera Blue Cross Gary Strannigan is Vice President of Congressional and Legislative Affairs at Premera Blue Cross. In this capacity, he leads public policy as well as state and federal legislative affairs for all Premera markets. Prior to joining Premera, Strannigan spent 16 years at Liberty Mutual/Safeco Insurance where he led the state legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts in nine western states along with serving as their national lead on autonomous vehicles. Prior to Liberty Mutual he was an aircraft accident investigator and is a former Washington State Senator. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is an engineer and patent-holding inventor.
Patty Kuderer was elected in 2024 as Washington’s ninth insurance commissioner. As insurance commissioner, Kuderer is committed to protecting consumers, promoting transparency and fairness in the insurance market, and advocating for expanded access to affordable healthcare.
Kuderer’s current priorities include providing restitution to policyholders who are harmed and exploring innovative, collaborative pathways to reach universal health care. She’s also raising awareness of climate change, monitoring how it affects the insurance industry, and encouraging mitigation practices like building more resilient communities.
Kuderer was chosen by her peers to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Western Zone Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which also gives her a seat on the NAIC’s Executive Committee.
Prior to taking office as commissioner, Kuderer served for almost a decade in the Washington State Legislature. She was appointed to the state House in 2015 and then became the 48th Legislative District’s first female state Senator in 2017. During her time in the Legislature, she championed consumer and worker protections, common sense gun legislation, increasing access to affordable housing and worked to reform Washington’s health care system.
Kuderer also has extensive legal experience as a trial attorney, including serving as a former prosecutor, city attorney and in private practice. She has handled public records, employment discrimination and serious injury cases, as well as argued before Minnesota Appellate and State Supreme Courts.
Kuderer grew up in Minnesota and is one of nine children. She earned a law degree from the William Mitchell College of Law and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Minnesota. She has lived in King County’s Eastside for over two decades, raising her two (now grown) children.
Gary Strannigan
Vice President Congressional / Legislative Affairs
Premera Blue Cross
Gary Strannigan is Vice President of Congressional and Legislative Affairs at Premera Blue Cross. In this capacity, he leads public policy as well as state and federal legislative affairs for all Premera markets.
Prior to joining Premera, Strannigan spent 16 years at Liberty Mutual/Safeco Insurance where he led the state legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts in nine western states along with serving as their national lead on autonomous vehicles. Prior to Liberty Mutual he was an aircraft accident investigator and is a former Washington State Senator.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is an engineer and patent-holding inventor.
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Start looking in the back of your closet! Get your favorite holiday attire ready - those special Holiday shoes you've just been waiting to show off - headwear (reindeer horns permitted), that gorgeous (or ugly) Holiday sweater - and treat us all.
