Drivers, start your engines. It has been months of high speed for privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence....more
5/16/2024
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Cybersecurity ,
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Data Privacy ,
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Life Insurance ,
Machine Learning ,
NAIC ,
TCPA
A string of putative class actions has been filed against life insurance companies for allegedly violating section 20(b) of Illinois’ Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) by using applicants’ family medical history in...more
1/22/2024
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Health Insurance ,
Illinois ,
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Life Insurance ,
Medical History ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
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Statutory Violations ,
Underwriting
Funds Not Caged by SEC Names Rule Amendments: Roaming Room Remains -
The SEC recently adopted amendments to its investment company “names” rule that apply to most SEC-registered funds, including underlying funds in which...more
1/11/2024
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Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Insurance Industry ,
Investment Funds ,
Life Insurance ,
Proposed Rules ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Retirement Plan ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Traders ,
Whistleblowers
For broker-dealers distributing and selling variable annuities, examinations will test for compliance with Reg BI and FINRA Rule 2330 because both standards apply to variable annuity sales. Firms distributing and selling...more
The first round on the Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (#674) started on March 21 as the NAIC’s Privacy Protections Working Group (PPWG) held its first open meeting to discuss the draft privacy model. The...more
More than 25 years have elapsed since the SEC adopted Exchange Act Rule 17a-4(f) governing electronic recordkeeping by broker-dealers. In an effort to update the rule to reflect “technology neutral” concepts, the SEC adopted...more
On February 1, the NAIC’s Privacy Working Group’s new privacy model germinated. After months of development, the exposure draft, titled “Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law #674” (Proposed Model), has finally...more
Lemonade Inc.’s recently proposed settlement of class action claims alleging that it failed to sufficiently disclose, and secure necessary consent for, its collection and use of biometric information is a prime example of the...more
The NAIC’s Privacy Protections Working Group has updated its work plan, planting two crops for its fall 2023 harvest: Time will tell what other seedlings catch the NAIC’s eye. The above dates, however, are subject to growing...more
More than 200 regulators and interested parties attended the NAIC’s Cybersecurity (H) Working Group’s first meeting of the year on March 23. The working group, made up of 23 states, co-chaired by Missouri and New York, is...more
On November 18, calling frozen federal legislative efforts “an opportunity” for state insurance regulators to “update state privacy protections … and potentially forestall or mitigate the impacts of any preemptive federal...more