Lansing C. Scriven elected FLMIC chair designate
Scriven will become only the second person to serve as chair of Insurance Company when he assumes the office in 2025
Lansing C. Scriven of Tampa , a former member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors, will succeed Ray Ferrero, Jr., who continues to serve as FLMIC’s chair through the expiration of his term in June 2025.
Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company has appointed Lansing C. Scriven as its chair designate, a pivotal step in ensuring the organization’s continued leadership in serving the state’s legal community.
Scriven, a former member of The Florida Bar Board of Governors, will succeed Ray Ferrero, Jr., who continues to serve as chair until the expiration of his term in June 2025. Ferrero has served continuously as the company’s first and only chair since its inception in 1987.
FLMIC was created by The Florida Bar during the professional liability insurance crisis of the 1980s. After establishing the mutual company entity, assembling a board of directors, and hiring staff, The Florida Bar unconditionally divested its ownership and terminated all operational management and control of the company.
Scriven’s nomination was put forth by founding director Stephen Rappenecker.
“I believe I speak for all the founding directors who still serve on the board in saying we are delighted that Lanse Scriven, who enjoys a reputation as not only a distinguished attorney but also as a dedicated leader in our statewide bar community, will help guide and support our company’s management into the future,” Rappenecker said.
“I am incredibly honored,” said Scriven, “by the opportunity to serve, beginning next year, as chair of Florida Lawyers Mutual, a mutual insurance company that has earned the respect of Florida’s legal community and has served our state’s lawyers with excellence for 35 years.”
Scriven said it’s an honor to succeed a leader as dedicated as Ferrero of Fort Lauderdale, whom he called “a true legend in our community.”
“I look forward to continuing his great legacy of service to Florida’s lawyers,” Scriven said.
During the professional liability insurance crisis of the 1980s, a large number of Florida lawyers found themselves without professional liability insurance or faced rate hikes as high as 70%. Leadership at The Florida Bar responded to the crisis by forming the captive insurance company “for lawyers, by lawyers.” FLMIC’s primary objective is to provide qualified attorneys practicing in Florida with a financially sound, stable, and perpetual source of attorney professional liability insurance. The work began several years prior to the company’s formation in the late 1980s when the Board of Governors asked Ferrero, who became the first president of FLMIC, to head a special committee to address the insurance issue.
“I am personally gratified to know that after nearly 40 years of service, I have in my successor a lawyer as distinguished, accomplished, and respected as Lanse Scriven,” said Ferrero, who served as Florida Bar president in 1987-88.
Scriven is the principal of Lanse Scriven Law, based in Tampa. His areas of practice include business litigation and Florida Bar disciplinary defense. He has also served since 1994 as a special prosecutor for the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission and is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Lawyer Award from the Hillsborough County Bar Association.
From 2009 to 2017, Scriven served on The Florida Bar Board of Governors as a representative of the 13th Circuit, where he served variously as chair of the Budget Committee, vice chair of the Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics, and as a member of the Executive Committee. In addition to his service as president of the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association, Scriven is a past president of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and the George Edgecomb Bar Association.
Scriven joined the Board of Directors at Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company in 2020 and has served on its Underwriting, Compensation, and Claims committees.
“Mr. Scriven has already brought considerable insight and invaluable perspective to our leadership since joining the company’s board of directors in 2020,” said Cathleen Sargent, the FMIC’s president and CEO. “I look forward to working with him and all our directors as he transitions into the role of board chair next year.”
