On December 8, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) stated in a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “Court”) that it agreed to stay of the effective date of Rule 151A for “two years after completion of all proceedings on remand, to run from publication of a retained or reissued Rule 151A in the Federal Register.” Compliance with Rule 151A is therefore postponed. Companies would have two years from that new publication date to comply with Rule 151A, or any reissued version of the rule. The filing was made in response to petitions filed by various insurance industry participants requesting the Court to reconsider its remand order that it issued on July 21, 2009 and void Rule 151A. The Court had previously ruled that the SEC failed to properly consider the effects of Rule 151A on efficiency, competition and capital formation in the insurance industry and remanded the issue to the SEC for reconsideration.1