Longtime California governmental affairs expert and workers’ compensation industry consultant Mark Webb died April 9 from esophageal cancer.

Mark Webb

Webb was involved with every major reform effort in California for the last 30 years and was an active and trusted advocate for the comp system.

He most recently launched Prop 23 Advisors — named after the 1918 ballot initiative approved by 50.6% of California voters authorizing the Legislature to create a workers’ compensation system — where he’s worked since 2015.

From 2006 through 2015, he was vice president of government relations and chief compliance officer with Pacific Compensation Insurance Co. 

Before that, he was assistant general counsel and director of state affairs with American International Group and was vice president of the western region for the American Insurance Association from 1997 to 2003.

Webb is a former deputy director of the Arizona Department of Insurance. He also has served on the California Advisory Committee of the Workers Compensation Research Institute.

He also served on the board of directors of the Civil Justice Association of California, participated on former California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi's task force on workers' compensation reform and was a frequent speaker on California workers' compensation issues.