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Artificial Intelligence - There's Nothing Fake About It

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in today’s corporate lexicon. And while much has been said, and written, about AI, the question still remains: what, exactly, is AI? Or, more aptly for this discussion, what...more

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Does Colorado’s Draft Big Data Governance Rule Foretell of a Long Winter or an Early Spring?

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Colorado Senate Bill (SB) 21-169, which became law in 2021, is intended to “hold insurers accountable for testing their big data systems — including external consumer data and information sources, algorithms, and predictive...more

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Insurance Industry: Reflections on 2022, Predictions for 2023

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For many in the insurance industry, 2022 was a year of growth, a year dedicated to gaining traction after the residual effects of 2020. As we enter 2023, we reflect beyond the macro dynamics of other markets, in hopes of...more

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California Throws Shade at Insurance Industry’s Use of Big Data and Algorithms

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On June 30, 2022, the California Department of Insurance (CA DOI) released a bulletin titled "Allegations of Racial Bias and Unfair Discrimination in Marketing, Rating, Underwriting, and Claims Practices by the Insurance...more

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Flowers Sprout in the Consumer Data Regulation Garden

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With spring’s arrival, a bouquet of differing NAIC groups and states is popping up to consider the use of big data and algorithms by insurers, including algorithms based on machine learning. Many are focusing on life...more

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NAIC report - 2021 Fall National Meeting

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2021 Fall National Meeting from December 11 to 16 in San Diego, California. The meeting was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format due to the ongoing...more

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Connecticut Insurance Department Issues Guidance on Big Data Use by Insurers

The State of Connecticut’s Insurance Department (Department) has issued a Notice reminding all entities and persons licensed by the Department to use technology and Big Data responsibly and transparently and in full...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Considerations in Machine Learning-Led Programmatic Underwriting

Underwriting is critical to insurance profits: Identify, qualify, and quantify the risk that an insurance policy covers and set the premiums across a pool of the policies to cover the risk. It is the original hedge fund, in...more

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Alert: With New Congress, Passage of Draft Legislation Impacting the Insurance Sector’s Use of Big Data Is Possible

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This past summer, Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator from Ohio and the then-ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, introduced a draft bill that, if enacted, would impact the...more

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Topsy-Turvy World of Accelerated Underwriting and Artificial Intelligence

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As accelerated underwriting (AU) and artificial intelligence (AI) begin to turn life underwriting upside down, several NAIC working groups are seeking to bring order to the disruption: the Big Data (EX) Working Group (“Big...more

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NAIC Tills the Accelerated Underwriting Garden

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The Accelerated Underwriting (A) Working Group (AU WG) sprang into action during the first part of the year learning about the landscape of insurers' use of algorithms in underwriting and potential issues of such use, holding...more

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Awaiting Regulation of AI in Insurance

With the recent news that the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for new rules to reflect the increased use of AI and machine learning in the insurance industry, comes a reminder that there is still a...more

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Innovation and Technology at the NAIC 2019 Fall Meeting

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Several NAIC groups continued addressing issues related to innovation in the life insurance industry as follows...more

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Innovation Whack-a-Mole

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Like a game of whack-a-mole, new or existing NAIC groups are being tasked to consider the various regulatory issues that are popping up from insurance innovation....more

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Data Modeling Remains Auto Finance Target in CFPB’s Fair Lending Governance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau made it clear that it will continue to target auto finance lenders as one of its top supervisory and enforcement priorities in the Fair Lending Report of the Bureau of Consumer...more

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BigData: Great Opportunities in the Face of Impending Regulations

To kick off the New Year, the New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) published Insurance Circular Letter No. 1 (2019) warning life insurers that use of external consumer data and information sources, commonly...more

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Life Insurers Sinking in Quicksand as Regulators Scrutinize Non-Traditional Consumer Data Sources

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As previously reported in our October 9, 2018, client alert, the sands began shifting in late 2018 when the NAIC Big Data Working Group (Big Data WG) began questioning life insurer’s use of big data after a LIMRA survey found...more

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New York Department of Financial Services Releases Letter Regarding Third Party Data Sources

In a recent letter, the New York Department of Financial Services provided guidance for insurers who use third party data to help with their underwriting decisions. The letter was drafted in response to reports that insurers...more

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New Guidance on Insurers’ Use of Big Data and Algorithms in New York

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Having concluded an investigation into New York life insurers’ underwriting guidelines and practices, the New York Department of Financial Services has issued Insurance Circular Letter No. 1 (2019) to advise insurers of their...more

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New York Takes the Lead on Insurers’ Use of Big Data and Algorithms

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the New York Department of Financial Services filled a big one with Insurance Circular Letter No. 1 (2019), which was issued on January 18. The circular letter addresses the use of external...more

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NAIC Big Data WG Shifts Its Gaze To The Use Of Big Data In Life Insurance Underwriting

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At recent meetings, the NAIC's Big Data (EX) Working Group (Big Data WG) has shifted its gaze to the use of big data in life insurance underwriting. Before these meetings, the Big Data WG had focused on the impact of big data...more

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UK’s FCA Weighs in on Insurers’ Use of Big Data

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On September 21, the United Kingdom's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), released a "Feedback Statement" after completing a review of insurance industry responses to its November 2015 "Call for...more

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NAIC's Market Regulation Committee Adopts Broad Charge to Explore Insurers' Big Data Use

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On December 11, the Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee (Market Reg Committee) of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted the following charge... ...more

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Catching Up To Insurers’ Use of Big Data

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Various groups within the NAIC are beginning to study the way in which insurers are using big data. On the property and casualty front, the Market Regulation (D) (Market Reg) Committee is reviewing the use of big data in...more

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