Robert L. Wallan’s clients are keeping him quite busy as they fret about the implementation next year of the nation’s most far-reaching data privacy law, which gives California consumers more control over their personal data. Wallan, a partner in Pillsbury …
Online platforms can foster insurance market transparency and reduce both transaction costs and information asymmetries, factors typically associated with increased competition and societal welfare. However, online insurance platforms also give rise to challenges concerning consumer protection and competition that should …
North Dakota’s insurance commissioner is bullish on the technological innovations that are occurring within the insurance industry and wants his state to be in the forefront of experimenting with and testing new insurance products and developments. Though in terms of …
During the 2014 legislative session California Gov. Jerry Brown signed nine bills sponsored by the California Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. A bill that adds protections for small businesses has already taken effect and five other consumer …
New York officials announced AXA Equitable will pay a $20 million fine to the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) for violating insurance law related to certain variable annuity products. DFS said its investigation uncovered that AXA made changes to …
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) [the successor to the FSA] has fined Swinton Group Limited, one of the country’s largest insurance retailers, £7,380,400 [$11.215 million] for mis-selling. After an investigation the FCA said it had “found that Swinton’s aggressive …
The UK’s newly established Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which replaced the FSA on April first, have lost no time in ordering their priorities for 2013/14. The FCA announced that its overall Annual Funding Requirement …
Construction defect laws intended to protect consumers have morphed into a trial lawyer’s dream and a nightmare for Nevada’s building trades, putting many out of business and sending the cost of insurance skyrocketing, representatives of the homebuilding and construction industry …
In a move that is certainly not an April Fool’s Day joke, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), which has been responsible for regulating the UK’s financial services industry since 1997, including insurance regulation, has ceased to exist. It has been …
The Financial Services Roundtable says it will support the confirmation of Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), provided Congress makes changes to CFPB’s structure. “Our members strongly believe the CFPB should operate under a more democratic …
