On 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.

On May 28, 2019, Brian Casey, along with the senior leadership of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the United States leading trade association representing the digital asset and blockchain industry, and representatives of two of its other members, USAA and AIG, and met with Federal Insurance Office’s Director Steven Seitz and several of his key, senior policy leadership team members to discuss the state of the insurtech industry and the existing and potential applications of blockchain technology to the insurance and reinsurance industries.

As an early stage or startup InsurTech, you’re highly focused on all the right things: identifying a ‎challenge for the insurance industry, developing an innovative technical solution, making it ‎practical and scalable, getting it funded, and implementing it. The industry for which InsurTech ‎seeks to develop and deliver solutions is awash, however, in requirements and restrictions related ‎to the collection, use, sharing, and protection of data.‎