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NAIC Honors 3 for Leadership in State Insurance Regulation

Dec 7 2017 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recognized three state regulators for their contributions to state-based insurance regulation during the the NAIC’s 2017 Fall National Meeting. The NAIC...

Tennessee’s McPeak to Succeed Wisconsin’s Nickel as NAIC President in 2018

Dec 6 2017 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) elected the following officers for 2018 during the organization’s Fall 2017 national meeting. The newly-elected officers who will assume their...

Ex-NAIC Head Huff Succeeds Kading at Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers

Dec 5 2017 // An ex-chief insurance regulator for Missouri will take over the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers starting in January 2018. John Huff, the immediate past president of the National Association of Insurance...

Former Connecticut Regulator Leonardi Joins AIG in Public Policy Post

Oct 24 2017 // American International Group reported that Thomas Leonardi will join the company as executive vice president, Government Affairs, Public Policy and Communications, effective Nov. 1. Leonardi previously served as the...

Super Regional Carriers Urged to Educate ‘Suspicious’ Regulators on Big Data Use

Jul 24 2017 // “We’re curious and we don’t know. When regulators don’t know what’s going on, they get suspicious.” That was Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel acknowledging that like the...

NCOIL, NAIC on Collision Course over Delegation Authority

Jul 15 2017 // A conflict is brewing between the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), even though neither side wants to admit it. The two private trade...

South Carolina Insurance Director Farmer Elected as NAIC Secretary-Treasurer

May 15 2017 // South Carolina Insurance Director Ray Farmer was elected to fill the position of secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners During a Plenary meeting by members, effective immediately. Farmer...

At NCOIL, State Lawmakers Look to Claw Back Power from NAIC

Mar 6 2017 // Newly assertive leadership of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators appears eager to confront what it views as an ongoing usurpation of authority from state legislatures. Thomas B. Considine—now NCOIL’s...

NAIC Leader Says Insurer Systemic Risk Process Is Unnecessary

Jan 26 2017 // Although the Financial Stability Oversight Council created by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform Act could serve an incredibly useful purpose, FSOC’s activities so far have been misguided, an insurance regulator...

Idaho Insurance Director Tapped for NAIC Committee Leadership Position

Jan 24 2017 // Idaho Department of Insurance Director Dean Cameron has been named as vice chair of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Life Insurance and Annuities Committee for 2017. Director Cameron was elected...

NAIC Announces 35 Consumer Representatives for 2017

Jan 23 2017 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) recently named 35 consumer liaison representatives for 2017. The 22 funded and 13 unfunded consumer representatives began their terms Jan. 1. Eighteen of the...

People

Jan 23 2017 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was elected vice chair of...

Arkansas Commissioner Tapped for NAIC Committee Leadership Post

Jan 19 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice-chairman of the Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). In a statement released by...

U.S. and EU Reach Agreement on Insurance Regulation

Jan 13 2017 // United States and European Union negotiators say they have reached an agreement on reinsurance and insurance regulation. The agreement covers three areas of insurance oversight: reinsurance, group supervision and the...

Peaple – Southeast

Jan 9 2017 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...

Louisiana Insurance Department Chief Actuary Honored by NAIC

Dec 16 2016 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Chief Actuary Rich Piazza has been awarded the Robert Dineen Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance by the National Association of Insurance...

Tennessee Insurance Commissioner McPeak Elected NAIC President-Elect

Dec 16 2016 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance...

Wisconsin Commissioner Elected President of NAIC for 2017

Dec 16 2016 // Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel has been elected as president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Created in 1871, the NAIC establishes standards and conducts peer reviews for...

Oklahoma, Texas Insurance Commissioners Elected to NAIC Leadership Posts

Dec 15 2016 // Texas Commissioner of Insurance David Mattax has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), and Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak was elected vice chair of...

NAIC Taps Former Pennsylvania Commissioner, Transamerica Exec Consedine as CEO

Dec 12 2016 // Ten months after its last chief executive officer departed, the national organization of state insurance regulators has named former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine as its new CEO. Consedine will...