Anthony Spina

Anthony is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the corporate practice group, focusing his practice in the area of insurance law.  He handles regulatory and transactional matters for all types of insurance companies and entities regulated by the Ohio Department of Insurance, including captive insurance companies, insurance agencies (including managing general agencies), multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs), fraternal benefit associations and health insuring corporations.  Anthony also regularly works with other state insurance regulators resolving that state's required filings and specific insurance law requirements. 

Before joining Vorys, Anthony was an in-house attorney and acting assistant director of life and health with the Ohio Department of Insurance.

Career highlights include:

• Negotiating and drafting reinsurance agreements and reinsurance trust agreements
• Handling Form A, Form B, Form D and redomestication transactions
• Handling both the creation and purchase of all types of insurance companies in Ohio
• Creation and licensing of insurance agencies in Ohio, as well as in other U.S. jurisdictions
• Sale of insurance block of business in connection with mutual insurance company wind-up
• Drafting reinsurance trust agreements
• Handling numerous Department of Insurance investigations in both the financial regulation and market conduct areas
• Assisting both insurance companies and insurance agencies including managing general agencies, with agency contracts and the required state insurance law provisions and prohibitions 

Anthony is a member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, a nation-wide association of attorneys focused on insurance regulatory law.  He is also a member of the American and Ohio Bar Associations. 

Anthony received his J.D. cum laude from Capital University Law School and his B.S. from The University of Akron.

Anthony clerked for the Honorable David W. Fais of the  Franklin County, Ohio Common Pleas Court.

Honors & Recognitions

Columbus CEO, Best Lawyers, Insurance Law, 2023

Columbus CEO, Top Lawyers in Columbus, 2015-2016

Professional & Community Activities

Ohio State Bar Association, Insurance Law Committee, Chair, July 2012 - July 2014

Federation of Regulatory Counsel, Member