About William Stander

With over 30 years experience advocating before the Governor and Cabinet, state legislators, agency officials, print, radio, and television reporters, and business and industry trade groups, I have a proven record of trust and successful advocacy on behalf of my clients.

As a lobbyist for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, I brought 1000+ member insurance companies together to take on some of the most complex and contentious issues, and fight some of the strongest political winds of their time. My other clients have spanned a broad array of industries including economic development and small business, public safety, transportation, solid waste, K-12 and post-secondary education, and life and health insurance.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter once described me and my efforts as “the spear point to the [insurance] industry’s opposition to Gov. Charlie Crist’s reform efforts.” (Tallahassee Democrat, July 24, 2007).

As a spokesperson and message maker, I’ve been quoted extensively by every major daily newspaper in Florida, Associated Press, Florida Trend, the Business Journals of Florida, the South Florida Daily Business Review, various national outlets, and the insurance trade press including Business Insurance, Reactions Magazine, National Underwriter, and A.M. Best. I’ve also spoken on-air with short and long-form radio and television interviews, and frequently published by-lined op-eds and feature articles in many of these same outlets, or written them for others.