Regulation & Compliance
NAIC to Collect Insurer Data to Understand Property Market Gaps
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners said at its Summer National Meeting that it plans to collect data from insurers in order to help insurance ...
Not Your Grandpa’s Hard Reinsurance Market; Profits Return, Discipline Stays
The current property-catastrophe reinsurance market is one of the hardest in decades—and very different from previous ones, a new AM Best report notes, also predicting that underwriting discipline ...
Insurers Fume at Proposal That May Crimp Private Investments
Representatives of the multitrillion-dollar insurance industry are hurling criticism at a proposal that could make it harder to invest in deals sold in fast-growing private markets that offer higher ...
Rate Hikes Not Bringing Profit to U.S. Auto Insurers: Fitch
Jumps in rates and written premiums did little to move the needle on underwriting profits for U.S. personal auto insurers, Fitch Ratings reported based on a recent review of midyear results of nine ...
NAIC Weighs Overriding Credit-Rating Companies
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is gearing up to challenge credit graders by overruling ratings on certain assets bought by insurance ...
Delaware vs. IRS: Fight Over Captive Insurers’ Data Privacy Headed to Supreme Court
The state of Delaware is going to the Supreme Court in its fight with the Internal Revenue Service over the release of information on captive insurers. This fight has placed Delaware's state ...
Will S&P Change ‘Negative’ Reinsurance Outlook to ‘Stable’ in ’23?
While no one directly asked the question of this article's headline at the S&P Global Ratings June annual insurance conference, the prospect that an outlook change is near came into view during ...
State Insurance Regulation of Climate Issues ‘Fragmented’: FIO Report
The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has released a new report analyzing climate-related issues and gaps in U.S. insurance supervision and regulation, saying state regulatory efforts are fragmented and ...