Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Regulators Escalate Focus on the Risks of Bank Relationships with Fintechs and Other Third Parties
DE Under 3: OFCCP Resurrects Proposal for Monthly CC-257 Employment Utilization Reports for Construction Contractors
DE Under 3: Updated EEOC COVID-19 Technical Assistance Guidance, Case Decision & Wage & Hour Division Proposed Rule
Digital Assets Regulation Framework: Commerce Solicits Public Comment
DE Under 3: EEOC & DOJ Technical Guidance for Employer’s AI Use; Upcoming EEOC Hearing; Event for Mental Health in the Workplace
Comment Deadline Approaching: Proposed Amendments Restricting Use of Prop 65 Short-Form Warnings
2BInformed: The Future of Fluoride in Drinking Water, the New TSCA Fees Rule, and the Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List 5
Recent Actions on Ag Biotech by EPA’s Emerging Technologies Branch
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Laying the Foundation for Maximizing Benefits Around Emerging Technologies
[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
Episode 014: Business Divorce Stories: Business Appraiser Tony Cotrupe and Attorney Jeff Eilender
On July 15, the Fed published a notice and request for comment in the Federal Register on revisions to its Large Financial Institution (LFI) rating system and the Insurance Supervisory Framework. The rating system governs...more
The Administrative Board of the Courts is seeking public comment on a proposal by the Commercial Division Advisory Council to amend the Commercial Division rules (22 NYCRR § 202.70) to clarify what types of insurance cases...more
On May 9, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced it opened the formal public comment period for its proposed regulations concerning updates to the California Consumer Privacy Act. The proposed rules would...more
The California Privacy Protection Agency released proposed CCPA rules for a variety of topics in November, as well as announcing an investigative sweep for compliance with the Delete Act. Topics include the following, which...more
On October 10, 2024, the Iowa Insurance Division released for comment a proposed AI Bulletin based upon the NAIC AI Model Bulletin. Comments are due before October 31, 2024....more
The NAIC’s Long-Term Care Insurance (B) Task Force (“Task Force”) has issued its recommendations for 2025 charges, which would disband the Task Force and reallocate the Task Force and the Long-Term Care (B) Working Group’s...more
Insurers that outsource investment management to affiliates should consider new guidance from insurance regulators on such arrangements. On March 19, 2024, following its March 16 session at the National Association of...more
New York-domiciled insurers should consider new guidance from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) to determine whether they might be exempt from group capital calculation (GCC) requirements. In its proposed...more
We continue our investigation of proposed regulations under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) issued by the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury (the Departments)...more
On July 25, 2023, the federal government introduced regulations and guidance aimed at improving adherence to the requirement that insurance companies must provide mental health and substance use disorder treatment benefits on...more
On July 17, 2023, the Innovation, Cybersecurity and Technology (H) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released for comment a highly anticipated model bulletin (Model Bulletin) on...more
On July 7, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services published a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) regarding, among other things, the requirements for fixed and hospital indemnity insurance to be...more
On Wednesday February 22, 2023, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) Accelerated Underwriting (A) Working Group exposed for a 45-day comment period draft regulatory guidance while simultaneously...more
La Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC) publicó para comentarios el Proyecto de Documento Técnico No. 01 de 2023, titulado "Administración de Riesgos y Oportunidades Climáticas para el Sector Asegurador", por medio...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
On October 12th, the NAIC Life Insurance and Annuity (A) Committee’s Indexed Universal Life (IUL) Illustration (A) Subgroup (IUL Subgroup) exposed for comment four options to amend Actuarial Guideline (AG) 49-A to address a...more
On July 25, 2022, the Index-Linked Variable Annuity (A) Subgroup of the NAIC’s Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee issued for public comment an exposure draft of proposed actuarial guidelines for index-linked variable...more
On August 15th, the NAIC’s Life Actuarial (A) Task Force (LATF) re-exposed for comment four options to address a concern raised by state insurance regulators regarding the use of illustrations for indexed universal...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
Insurers with legacy blocks of business, or with other motivations to enter into block transfers of business or corporate split-offs, should consider a recent regulator call on so-called Insurance Business Transfers (IBTs)...more
The April 29th deadline is rapidly approaching for insurers, reinsurers and other interested insurance industry participants to submit comments on S&P Global Ratings’ proposal for changing its methodology analyzing...more
Insurers writing variable annuities in New York will want to focus on newly proposed requirements from the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) on separate account contracts...more
The US Department of the Treasury (Treasury), Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking relating to the federal regulations governing the corporate Federal surety bond program...more
On July 28, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler delivered remarks at the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Climate and Global Financial Markets Webinar. In his remarks, he offered a glimpse of...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Special (EX) Committee on Race and Insurance met during the virtual Spring National meeting on April 12 to discuss its recently proposed 2021 charges. The lengthy...more