RENO - You probably don't know the name Alice Molasky-Arman. But her job affects just about every Nevadan--from cradle to grave.

" We regulate auto insurance, we regulate home owners insurance, we regulate title insurance. Life insurance, annuities, uh we have burial plans."

Alice Molasky-Arman's office is less cluttered than normal. That's because she is in the process of moving out. But there are still files and Nevada statues in here because as always she gives an honest days work.

"It is repetitive but some of it is very exciting."

She wasn't always proficient at this. She didn't start out as a commissioner. Married three times, a single mother, she was a substitute teacher, and assistant entertainment director, and a game show host.

When she showed up to the insurance division she was an examiner with a proficiency at writing legal briefs. She was encouraged to go to law school. Did she do well?

" I did all right. I was not the student I had been."

She spent her third year of law school clerking at the Nevada Supreme Court came back to the insurance division and worked her way up.
During her tenure she presided over some complicated cases.

She was there during the Nevada's malpractice insurance crisis in 2003. The merger of Sierra Health and United Health Group. She spear headed the divisions efforts to educate residents about health care insurance fraud.

On a personal level she was diagnosed and survived breast cancer, even coming to work after treatments. She says she couldn't stay home and think about her situation, work kept her mind busy.

She is an artist

She's been known to work 20-hours a day, when asked what she'd like to do next, her answer is obvious.

"First thing I am going to do is sleep."