Since the 2023 adoption by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners of its model bulletin on the use of AI systems by insurers, states have been adopting the model bulletin or draft requirements of their own. Below...more
2024 has seen a significant amount of activity by state insurance regulators and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the “NAIC”) including the adoption of major revisions to the regimes governing investments...more
The Situation: The global market for artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies is projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2030....more
State regulators are taking action on the use of artificial intelligence in insurance. To date, nearly a dozen states have adopted some form of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Bulletin on the...more
A "time cut" is a ruling within cycling to ensure that riders keep pace. Similarly, regulators have placed time cuts, or deadlines, for insurers to certify compliance with cybersecurity regulations. Some of the time cuts are...more
After strapping on their skis and riding up the lifts, the NAIC groups reported to their events. The results of the events of note for life insurers are as follows...more
States have been off to the races to place in the artificial intelligence insurance regulatory Grand Prix. The NAIC adopted the Model Bulletin on the Use of AI Systems by Insurers, which some states have drafted on to adopt...more
On January 17, 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued for public comment a proposed circular letter on the use of AIS and external data sources by New York-authorized insurers (the Proposed...more
As the implementation and integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning tools (AI) continue to affect nearly every industry, concerns over AI’s potentially discriminatory effects in the use of these tools...more
On January 17, 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) released for public comment a proposed circular letter (Proposed Letter) to regulate the use of artificial intelligence systems (AIS) and...more
On January 17, 2024, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYSDFS”) released a proposed circular letter addressing the use of external consumer data and information sources (“ECDIS”) and artificial...more
The New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) has entered its voice regarding the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) by insurers by issuing for public comment a proposed circular letter addressing the use of...more
On December 4, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners unanimously adopted a model bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence in insurance. The model bulletin is intended for use by state insurance regulators...more
On November 14, 2023, the Colorado Division of Insurance’s AI insurance regulations went into effect. Colorado is now the first state in the nation to adopt regulations specifically aimed at insurance algorithms....more
Regulators Hit Jackpot: Off-Channel Communications - Several years before announcing the first “off-channel” communications enforcement action, the SEC and FINRA cautioned broker-dealers and investment advisers about...more
On July 17, the Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners released its exposure draft of the NAIC’s model bulletin on insurers’ use of algorithms,...more
Various chefs within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and some individual states’ chefs continue to address insurers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the use and protection of...more
Colorado is poised to become one of the first states to regulate how insurers can use big data and AI-powered predictive models to determine risk for underwriting. The Department of Insurance recently proposed new rules that...more
We previously reported on regulators’ increased attention to the use of big data systems, including external consumer data and information sources, algorithms and predictive models. Recent announcements in Colorado, Louisiana...more
IVASS has launched a survey aimed at understanding the use of Machine Learning algorithms by Italian insurance undertakings and Italian branches of non-EU insurance undertakings, which are required to fill in a specific...more
As accelerated underwriting (AU) and artificial intelligence (AI) begin to turn life underwriting upside down, several NAIC working groups are seeking to bring order to the disruption: the Big Data (EX) Working Group (“Big...more
The comments by regulators during the NAIC Artificial Intelligence (EX) Working Group (AI WG) calls provide insight into regulators' views on insurers' use of artificial intelligence and may foretell areas for future...more
Several NAIC groups continued addressing issues related to innovation in the life insurance industry as follows...more
A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at guidance on artificial intelligence released by the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office and the Turing Institute, as well as guidance...more