January 28, 2025
The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) recently released a report that concludes over-regulation impedes insurance markets “Insurance markets function best when allowed to operate competitively, free from excessive price regulation,” said Robert Gordon, APCIA’s senior vice president, policy, research …
September 20, 2024
The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance will host the 2024 Southeastern Regulators Association conference in Nashville, promising a number of familiar faces in the insurance and legal industries as keynote speakers. The Nov. 3-5 conference is co-hosted by Insurors …
March 11, 2024
The U.S. Treasury late last week backed off a plan to have the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) collect data on climate-related risks from property/casualty insurers—an outcome that had been sought by the insurance industry since the proposal was published in …
October 24, 2023
As expected, a federal judge has postponed Greg Lindberg’s second trial on bribery charges until sometime next spring. Lindberg was convicted in 2020 of attempting to bribe North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey in return for allowing lower reserve levels …
April 27, 2023
North Carolina’s dominant health insurance provider could transfer billions to a holding company instead of returning portions of that surplus to policyholders, under legislation that advanced Tuesday in the state House. The House Health Committee passed a bill with broad …
October 10, 2022
Many states are facing a growing affordability and availability crisis in property insurance markets, and it’s not just because of climate change. While climate change is leading to more severe and frequent natural catastrophes, the insurance industry has made significant …
February 10, 2021
The country’s insurance regulators are vowing to prioritize the monitoring of the use of consumer and non-consumer data by companies, the use of artificial intelligence, and the availability and affordability of insurance products for racial minorities. They say they will …
January 26, 2021
This is the second installment of a two-part look at the top 10 insurance regulatory developments of 2020 by attorneys at Locke Lord. The first part on Jan. 22 covered COVID-19, Insurtechs, Data Privacy, Race Equality and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. …
January 22, 2021
This is the first installment of a two-part look at the top 10 insurance regulatory developments of 2020 by attorneys at Locke Lord. The first part covers COVID-19, Insurtechs, Data Privacy, Race Equality and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. The second installment …
March 25, 2020
As insurers continue to monitor the spread and impact of COVID-19, insurance regulators across the East region of the U.S. are issuing guidance on how the industry can respond. “There is almost no aspect of the insurance business that would …