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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
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
Culminating a four-year-long process, a key working group of insurance regulators has adopted new standards for determining whether an investment held by an insurance company should be characterized as a “bond” evidencing a...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
Insurers and others are closely following efforts by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to develop a new, comprehensive, “principles-based” definition of debt securities for purposes of insurers’...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 March 11, 2019, the NAIC’s Restructuring Mechanisms Working Group (“Restructuring Working Group”) held its first call on insurance business transfers (IBTs), an issue gaining more and more traction from industry and state...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has approved its draft of the Insurance Data Security Model Law (Model Law) via a meeting of its Executive and Plenary Committees. This important development follows...more
The NAIC’s 2016 Annual Report is titled, “Inspiring Innovation” and the themes of innovation and the new capabilities that technology offers were evident throughout the weekend. In March, the NAIC announced the creation of a...more
The NAIC’s Market Regulation Committee recently adopted three broad charges developed by the Big Data Task Force. Formerly a "working group," the new "task force" designation reflects the entity’s more formalized and enduring...more
On March 17, 2016, the Office of Financial Research, an agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 to analyze risk to the financial system, released a brief discussing “recent policy measures” by the NAIC “and the data that...more
Large insurers should be preparing now to comply with proposed regulations that adopt the NAIC’s internal audit function requirements. The internal audit function is designed to provide independent, objective and reasonable...more
The Connecticut Insurance Department has issued two Bulletins revising certain financial reporting requirements for certain insurers. Bulletin FS-4AR-14 (November 25, 2014) revises the annual financial filing requirements...more