On August 12, 2024, three Congressional Democrats (Casten (D-IL); Waters (D-CA); and Senator Whitehouse (D-RI)) sent a letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), inquiring as to “the status of the...more
On November 17, 2023, the United States Treasury Department’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and the Volatility and Risk Institute at the NYU Stern School of Business jointly hosted a conference on Catastrophic Cyber Risk and...more
SEC Requests Comment on Incident Reporting NPRM for Certain Filings Affected by Technical Glitch: On October 18, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a Notice announcing it has re-opened for 14 days the...more
On September 29, 2022, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) of the Department of the Treasury published a Request for Comment (RFC) related to cyber insurance and catastrophic cyber incidents....more
Earlier this month, United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chair of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, urged the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...more
Concerned about anecdotal evidence of diminishing availability of property insurance coverage in areas subject to disasters exacerbated by climate change, the Treasury Department announced on Thursday, June 7, that it is...more
State and federal policymakers, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH, Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee) have recently taken a...more
Climate change continues to preoccupy the public and policymakers, and a number of legal and regulatory initiatives in the US, UK, and elsewhere are currently underway that may affect insurers. This report provides a...more
President Biden’s May 20, 2021 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad set forth the Administration's policy to “organize and deploy the full capacity of its agencies to combat the climate crisis to...more
The November 15, 2021, deadline is approaching to submit comments to the Treasury Department’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) on its Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on FIO’s future work concerning the insurance...more
In a recent notice to the industry the Federal Insurance Office (“FIO”) set forth a series of requests to both life and property/casualty insurers for information as to the impact of climate change on both their insurance...more
There are less than two months before world leaders meet in Glasgow for the UN-sponsored Climate Change summit known as the Conference of the Parties (COP 26). This summer, we have been inundated with dire reports about...more
In This Issue. President Biden signed an executive order addressing climate-related financial risks; the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized a rule applicable to national banks and federal savings...more
On January 13, 2017, the then-US Secretary of the Treasury and the then-US Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress that they had negotiated a covered agreement with the European Union (EU). After a period of uncertainty...more
On November 21, 2016, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) issued its first ever annual Report on the Protection of Consumers and Access to Insurance (Report). The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of...more
Last week, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) provided an update on its TRIA data call initiative (the “Data Call”). As we previously reported, the NAIC has been in discussions, separate and apart...more
This month, the Federal Insurance Office (“FIO”) issued its “Report on the Overall Effectiveness of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program” (the “Report”, found here), required by the latest reauthorization of the Terrorism...more
In light of the reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (“TRIA”) earlier this year, a growing focus within the industry has been on the collection of data on terrorism risk exposure from insurers to help assess...more
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) jointly notified four key congressional committees that they were formally initiating...more
Last month, the Federal Insurance Office (“FIO”) issued its Annual Report for 2015. The Report discusses many financial consumer protection and regulatory issues, both domestic and international, relating to the business of...more
As Congress returns to work this week, a number of issues impacting the insurance and financial services industries are expected to be evaluated. First, on Thursday, September 10, two House subcommitees will hold a hearing...more
The Director of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO), Michael McRaith, recently testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance regarding the impact international regulatory standards have on...more
On April 21, 2015, the Council of the European Union (“Council”) issued a mandate to the European Commission (“Commission”) to negotiate an agreement with the United States on reinsurance. The mandate consists of a decision...more
On December 31, 2014, the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) issued a report entitled “The Breadth and Scope of the Global Reinsurance Market and the Critical Role Such Market Plays in Supporting Insurance in the United States.” ...more