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
2/7/2023
/ Acquisitions ,
Banking Sector ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Insurance Industry ,
Insurance Regulations ,
Investment Management ,
Investors ,
NAIC ,
New York ,
NYDFS ,
Private Equity ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Shareholder Rights
If anyone believed that the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) release of proposed climate change-related disclosure requirements last month might have been an isolated matter, of immediate importance only to the...more
After a variety of promises concerning climate change-related regulatory development activity last year, forward movement has been relatively slow. The leading exception has been the New York Department of Financial Services...more
4/1/2022
/ Attestation Requirements ,
Climate Change ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Insurance Industry ,
Materiality ,
NAIC ,
NYDFS ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
State Legislatures
For much of the past 10 years, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and individual state insurance regulators have highlighted their awareness of the increasing number of insurers controlled by private...more
The insurance industry was front and center before, during and after the first days of the United Nations’ (UN) climate change summit, Conference of the Parties (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded earlier this...more
11/19/2021
/ Climate Change ,
COP ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Policies ,
Financial Institutions ,
Insurance Industry ,
Mandatory Reporting Laws ,
NAIC ,
Net Zero ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Risk Factors ,
United Nations
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
At the beginning of the year, we published a short report on the surge in year-end insurance regulatory activity concerning climate change risks (available here). January was another busy month, and we report below on...more
2/17/2021
/ Bermuda ,
Biden Administration ,
Canada ,
Climate Change ,
Commercial Insurance Policies ,
EU ,
Insurance Regulations ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Risk Factors ,
UK ,
United States
In late November 2020, we published a high-level review of insurance regulatory developments relating to climate change, available here. In the six weeks since, regulators and industry participants on both sides of the...more
1/5/2021
/ Climate Change ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
EIOPA ,
EU ,
Financial Regulatory Agencies ,
IAIS ,
Insurance Industry ,
ORSA ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Risk Management ,
Sustainable Finance ,
Underwriting