Regulation & Compliance
Are Winds of Change Blowing on California Insurance Law?
It would be wrong to assume that California regulators and lawmakers are only now starting to ponder what to do about a potential insurance crisis in the wildfire-prone state. A state of urgency has ...
Top 15 Non-Life Reinsurers: AM Best’s Latest Ranking
Munich Re still holds the top spot on AM Best's annual ranking of global reinsurance groups but Hannover Re took the No. 2 position in a ranking based solely on non-life reinsurance premium volume. ...
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 regulators better understand property ...
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 companies. The NAIC, a consortium of state ...
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 ...