Reporting Developments Affecting the Insurance and Reinsurance Industries

 

NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group Moves Forward to Revise Consumer Privacy ‎‎Protections Model Act

by Daniel Barry | Mar 22, 2023 | |

The NAIC is developing a new Consumer Privacy Protections Model Act (# 674) which will ‎replace the preexisting Insurance Information & Privacy Protection Model Act (# 670) and ‎Privacy of Consumer Financial & Health Information Regulation (# 672).‎ ‎ The Working Group ‎exposed its first draft on January 31 for a 60-day public comment period which closes April 3. ‎Yesterday at the NAIC Spring National Meeting, the Working Group adopted a work plan which ‎lays out a detailed schedule across the spring and summer for regulatory only meetings, ‎consultations with industry, and open sessions, including public comment periods and final ‎approval at the Fall National Meeting in December. ‎

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Connecticut Considers Self-Service Storage Insurance Licensing Requirements

by Jeffrey Bohn | Mar 15, 2023 | |

The Connecticut General Assembly has proposed a bill that would permit owners of self-storage businesses to sell property insurance to their tenants.  Under Senate Bill 1037 (the “Bill”), an owner is required to obtain a self-service storage insurance license in order to sell such insurance and the insurance policy must be issued by an insurer that is authorized to write such lines of business in Connecticut.  The Bill would not require tenants of self-storage businesses to buy insurance.

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NAIC Releases for Public Comment Draft Accelerated Underwriting Regulatory Guidance

by Daniel Barry and Moya McKenna | Feb 23, 2023 | |

On Wednesday February 22, 2023, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ‎‎(“NAIC”) Accelerated Underwriting (A) Working Group exposed for a ‎‎45-day comment period draft regulatory guidance while simultaneously exposing for a 30-day ‎comment period a referral to the Market Conduct Examination Guidelines (D) Working Group ‎proposing revisions to the NAIC Market Conduct Handbook.‎ ‎This is a significant shift from the working group’s prior ‎work mostly gathering information to affirmatively flexing supervisory authority over insurance ‎carriers’ existing accelerated underwriting practices.‎

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A New Type of ILS Investment – Cyber Insurance CAT Bonds

by Rob Evans, Molly McGinnis Stine and John Emmanuel | Jan 25, 2023 | , , , |

Specialty insurer Beazley sponsored the first Cyber Insurance Catastrophe (CAT) bond recently, a new type of ILS or insurance linked security issued by a Bermuda entity. They announced the $45 million private placement on January 9, 2023. The bonds provide investors with a generous floating rate of interest and a return of principal in one year, provided that no single catastrophic event occurs across Beazley’s portfolio of cyber insurance policies that results in more than $300 million of losses. Any losses above $300 million incurred by Beazley on those policies as a result of that one event would be absorbed by the investors, up to the $45 million principal amount. The deal was marketed under an NDA, so not all of the details are available, but the bonds will not protect against losses from a state-sponsored cyberattack, which is typically excluded from cyber insurance policies as an act of war.

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New NAIC Leadership for 2023‎

by Daniel Barry | Jan 20, 2023 |

Last month the members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) elected new leadership from amongst their membership for 2023. Missouri Director Chlora Lindley-Meyers is the new President and the first woman of color elected to that position. Connecticut Commissioner Andrew N. Mais is the new President-Elect, which means that he will fill in as President whenever, due to exigent circumstances, Director Lindley-Meyers is unable. As President-Elect, Commissioner Mais will be the presumptive NAIC President in 2024. North Dakota Commissioner Jon Godfread was elected Vice-President while Virginia Commissioner Scott A. White was elected Secretary-Treasurer.

Earlier this month, the NAIC named its committee chairs and vice chairs. The officers and the most recent past president all serve on the Executive Committee while Director Lindley-Myers will chair the Executive Committee as NAIC President. While the Executive Committee handles administration of the NAIC, the letter committees are where the bulk of the substantive law-making work of the NAIC occurs. As a result, the chairs and vice-chairs of these committees wield substantial influence.

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Update: LL Surplus Lines Series (Entry 35): Surplus Lines Working Group Exposes Changes to IID Plan of Operation for Alien Insurers

by John Emmanuel | Jan 19, 2023 | |

At the December National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Fall National Meeting, the Surplus Lines Working Group adopted changes to the IID Plan of Operation.  The updated Plan of Operation incorporates, among others, the changes noted in our October posting below.  The 2023 Plan of Operation is now available at the “Documents” tab of the Surplus Lines Working Group home page.”

On October 19, 2022, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Surplus Lines Working Group exposed proposed changes to the International Insurers Department (IID) Plan of Operation applicable to insurers domiciled outside the U.S. (alien) participating in the U.S. insurance market.

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Texas Department of Insurance Adopts New Group Capital Calculation Rule

by Brittany Batts and Jon Gillum | Oct 19, 2022 | |

The Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”) adopted a new group capital calculation filing requirement that is effective on November 7, 2022.  The new rule, found in 28 Texas Administrative Code   §7.215 (“Section 7.215”), is based on the National Association Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) model regulation that requires an insurer’s ultimate control person in an insurance holding company system to file a group capital calculation concurrently with the insurer’s annual registration (Form B).

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Illinois to Participate in the Climate Risk Disclosure Survey

by Jeffrey Bohn | Oct 19, 2022 | , |

On October 13, 2022, the Illinois Department of Insurance (the “Department”) issued Company Bulletin 2022-16 (the “Bulletin”).  The Bulletin is addressed to all domestic insurers and advises that the Department will now participate in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Climate Risk Disclosure Survey (the “Survey”).

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