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The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
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The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Third Country Branches and Cross-Border Provision of Services
Standard Formula Podcast | Reinsurance and Risk Transfer: Risk Mitigation Under the Solvency II Regime
Hinshaw Releases Second Edition of Duty to Defend: A Fifty-State Survey
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV – Transaction Insurance Solutions
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding Insurance Resolution Regimes
The Risk Roundtable: Demystifying the Intersection Between NJ Workers' Comp & Employment Practice Liability
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Tax Insurance 101
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For more than a decade US insurance regulators have required certain insurers to file climate risk disclosure reports. In recent years, financial regulators in Europe have begun climate change scenario testing while still...more
In our recent webinar, members of the Eversheds Sutherland Insurance Practice Group discussed noteworthy developments from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Summer National Meeting that was held in...more
On August 12, 2024, three Congressional Democrats (Casten (D-IL); Waters (D-CA); and Senator Whitehouse (D-RI)) sent a letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), inquiring as to “the status of the...more
The climate change landscape for insurers has changed dramatically this past month. There are multiple developments insurers should keep in mind – and not just the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent adoption...more
On November 1, 2023 the Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) formally submitted a request to proceed with a climate-related financial risk data collection for homeowners’ multi-peril underwriting data...more
Earlier this month, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) signed S.B. 16, mandating the Colorado Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules such that insurance carriers licensed in Colorado participate in the NAIC Climate Risk...more
On October 13, 2022, the Illinois Department of Insurance (the “Department”) issued Company Bulletin 2022-16 (the “Bulletin”). The Bulletin is addressed to all domestic insurers and advises that the Department will now...more
The Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory team of lawyers recently attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer National Meeting which was held in Portland, Oregon on August 9-13th. We have...more
This year started off with a surge of enthusiasm among US proponents of increased climate-related financial risk disclosure by insurers and others: - Soon after the late-2021 Conference of the Parties (COP) 26 event in...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued its 2021 Update on New York Domestic Insurers’ Management of the Financial Risks from Climate Change, analyzing 2021 survey responses from the National Association of...more
As concerns about the ecological and financial impacts of climate change have grown in recent years, so has the interest of insurance regulators in the exposure of the insurance industry to the risks raised by climate change...more
If anyone believed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) release of proposed climate change-related disclosure requirements last month might have been an isolated matter, of immediate importance only to the...more
Like two kids that show up to school wearing the same outfit, the SEC and the NAIC both proposed significant new climate reporting requirements on March 21, 2022. The SEC’s new rule would, if adopted, require most public...more
After a variety of promises concerning climate change-related regulatory development activity last year, forward movement has been relatively slow. The leading exception has been the New York Department of Financial Services...more
Climate change continues to preoccupy the public and policymakers, and a number of legal and regulatory initiatives in the US, UK, and elsewhere are currently underway that may affect insurers. This report provides a...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2021 Fall National Meeting from December 11 to 16 in San Diego, California. The meeting was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format due to the ongoing...more
On November 15, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) finalized guidance, originally proposed in March 2021, on how New York-domestic insurers should manage climate change risk. See, Guidance for New...more
The insurance industry was front and center before, during and after the first days of the United Nations’ (UN) climate change summit, Conference of the Parties (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded earlier this...more
On November 3, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) announced the creation of a new Climate Risk Division (the Division) that is tasked with integrating climate risks into DFS’s supervision of regulated...more
Last week (March 25, 2021), the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released for public comment proposed guidance for New York domestic insurers on managing financial risks from climate change (the...more
In the few short weeks since our last report on climate change and the US insurance industry, the volume of climate change news has been extraordinarily high. The range of developments has been broad to say the very...more