Locke Lord is excited to participate during Selection Days as a partner of the Hartford InsurTech Hub on November 12-13, 2019. During Selection Days, investors, partners and mentors will meet with 21 promising startups, 10 of which the Hartford InsurTech Hub will welcome for their accelerator program beginning in mid-February.
Read MoreBen Sykes will serve as a panelist at the Insurtech on the Silicon Prairie conference on Oct. 22. His topic is insurtech/innovation and regulatory modernization. The annual conference is a one-day event bringing national experts, companies, and regulators together to discuss the rapidly changing insurance landscape.
Read MoreLocke Lord LLP and Novarica will look at new regulatory developments in analytics, use of data, and data security that have the potential to affect insurer technology strategy. This webinar covers the potential effects of regulation on the use of analytics and AI in life insurance underwriting, how privacy requirements may affect insurer data governance and MDM strategies, and how third-party data security requirements may affect distribution technology strategies.
Read MoreLocke Lord’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group has teamed with Novarica, a leading insurance industry technology research, advisory services and consulting firm, to address the impact of evolving insurance regulation on information technology systems of insurance and reinsurance companies. Atlanta Partner Brian Casey, Co-Leader of Locke Lord’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group, Hartford Office Managing Partner Ted Augustinos, member of the steering committee of the Firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, and Chicago Partner Ben Sykes co-authored the first installment of a quarterly report with Novarica on insurance technology strategy and regulatory compliance.
Read MoreOn July 23, the Financial Services Superintendent Linda A. Lacewell announced the establishment of the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) Research and Innovation Division (the “Division”). Superintendent Lacewell stated, “this new division…position[s] DFS as the regulator of the future, allowing the Department to better protect consumers, develop best practices, and analyze market data to strengthen New York’s standing as the center of financial innovation.”
Read MoreWhile you were off changing the industry, you may have missed these important developments
Read MoreWhile you were off changing the industry, you may have missed these important developments
Read MoreOn June 17th, the Excess Lines Association of New York (“ELANY”) published Bulletin No. 2019-19 (the “Bulletin”) detailing New York’s substantial restrictions on group property and casualty insurance policies. The Bulletin echoes some of the remarks at the most recent Surplus Lines Law Group Meeting where this author provided details on the growing regulatory concerns as to group P&C policies.
Read MoreWhile you were off changing the industry, you may have missed these important developments
Read MoreChicago partner Ben Sykes provided testimony on the NAIC Anti-Rebating law’s impact on innovation today at the NAIC Innovation & Technology Task Force at the NAIC Insurance Summit, in Kansas City.
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