Congressman Rafi Souki, President of the Subcomission on Financial, Banking and Insurance Policy of the Venezuelan National Assembly, recently announced that, within the next several days, the final version of the country’s controversial new insurance law regulating the insurance industry will be approved. 


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This week, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced an emergency rule (the “Rule”) interpreting and implementing Section 632.895 (12m) of the Wisconsin Statutes which mandates that insurers and self-insured health plans provide coverage for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.  Specifically, Section 632.895 (12m) requires that every disability insurance policy (except


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Jeremy Cox will succeed Matthew Elderfield as CEO of the BMA at the beginning of next year. Matthew Elderfield, the current CEO of the BMA, is stepping down at the end of this year to take up the post of director of financial regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland. 


Read More Bermuda: Cox appointed CEO of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) Effective 1 January 2010

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”), at the Executive/Plenary session of its Fall National Meeting, adopted revisions to the Standard Valuation Model Law (“Valuation Model”) replacing the existing formula based approach for reserving life insurance policies with a principles based approach. 


Read More NAIC Moves Towards Principles Based Reserving for Life Insurance

The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Financial Services recently held a hearing regarding H.B. 960 (the “Bill”), which would permit commercial fire policyholders to exclude terrorism from their coverage. 
Read More Massachusetts May Permit Exclusion Of Terrorism From Commercial Fire Policies