Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Rex Frazier

Top 100 Hall of Fame

Some people around the Capitol become synonymous with their industry. Such is the case with Rex Frazier, who has been in the Top 100 15 times in his more than 20 years at the helm of the Personal Insurance Federation of California, which represents the insurance industry’s heaviest hitters, including Farmers, State Farm, Mercury, Progressive, Liberty Mutual, Kemper and Nationwide. Over those two decades he has diligently guided them through years of catastrophic fires and regulatory uncertainty the likes of which the industry has not seen before. More than that, Frazier has overseen significant growth in his organization – when he started at PIFC in 2005, it had just five members and represented 50 percent of the market. Fast forward to now and you’ll see PFIC has 14 insurer members that collectively represent 80 percent of the property insurance market and 90 percent of the auto insurance market. It’s not easy getting diehard competitors to sit around a table and think about collective public policy issues, but he has proven more than adept at bringing those disparate folks together. That alone would warrant his inclusion in the Hall of Fame, but Frazier also believes deeply in the institutions of government, and served as a Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the California Department of Insurance from late 1994 through 1999, when he graduated valedictorian from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific. For all his success elsewhere, he is most proud of two original classes he created at McGeorge on how to effectively lobby – including a clinic where students developed original bills, 14 of which became law in the five years of the clinic’s operation.

Updated Aug. 26, 2025