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A warm welcome to the Summer edition of Conyers Coverage. The whirlwind that is the Cayman Islands (re)insurance industry continues to blow with gusto! To keep you updated on recent developments, we include various items from...more
On August 7, 2025, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Annuity Suitability (A) Working Group issued draft safe harbor regulatory guidance with a comment period that ends on September 22, 2025. The draft...more
NAIC PROPOSES REORGANIZATION OF SUBUNITS ADDRESSING INSURANCE COMPANY INVESTMENTS - The other shoe has finally dropped. On June 6, 2025, the Investment Framework Drafting Group of the NAIC’s Financial Condition (E)...more
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBA”) which would impose a 10-year freeze on new state-level artificial intelligence regulations and suspend enforcement of existing ones is being challenged by several state insurance...more
There is a proposed 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state laws that regulate artificial intelligence (AI) contained in Section 43201(c) of H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act. ...more
At the NAIC Spring National Meeting, the Illustration Subgroup and the Suitability Working Group reported that they are building out the following additions...more
During the NAIC Spring National Meeting, the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (H) Working Group reviewed its blueprint to build an overarching regulatory edifice to oversee insurers’ use of artificial intelligence...more
On February 5, Delaware joined 21 jurisdictions who adopted guidance similar to the NAIC Model Bulletin on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems by Insurers in 2024, and four additional jurisdictions have otherwise...more
State regulators are taking action on the use of artificial intelligence in insurance. To date, nearly a dozen states have adopted some form of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Bulletin on the...more
The concept of “control” of insurers received significant attention from state insurance regulators last year and will receive even more in 2023. We wrote a brief report in April 2022 following the New York Department of...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
On June 3, amendments to New York insurance regulations, available here, became effective that will permit the New York Superintendent of Financial Services to act as group-wide supervisor of internationally active insurance...more
Arizona jumped out front of the pack with the introduction of Senate Bill No. 1557, titled "Annuity Transactions; Requirements," which would amend Arizona's suitability requirements for annuity transactions. Senate Bill No....more
At the 2018 NAIC Summer National Meeting, regulators continued their efforts to define the standard of care that applies to recommendations. This subject was discussed at both the Annuity Suitability (A) Working Group...more