Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – The annuity regulatory landscape
The Intersection of Big Data and Insurance Regulation
InsurTech and the Changing Distribution Model
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
After strapping on their skis and riding up the lifts, the NAIC groups reported to their events. The results of the events of note for life insurers are as follows...more
Drivers, start your engines. It has been months of high speed for privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence....more
Over the weekend, the NAIC’s Third-Party Data and Models (H) Task Force released for a 30-day comment period (the comment period expires Monday May 6, 2024) a proposed work plan to develop a framework for the regulatory...more
Under the leadership of Maryland Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Birrane, in 2023 the Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners completed two main...more
2023 has been a very productive year for regulators advancing their efforts to understand new technologies and consider whether and how to regulate the rapidly developing technologies, including artificial intelligence,...more
The last months of 2023 capped off another major year for insurance regulation, with state insurance regulators and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners undertaking a number of initiatives that will affect the...more
On September 21, 2023, the Colorado Division of Insurance adopted a Final Regulation implementing S.B. 21-169, the 2021 law governing Colorado-licensed insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources (ECDIS),...more
On July 17, the Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners released its exposure draft of the NAIC’s model bulletin on insurers’ use of algorithms,...more
In July, the Innovation, Cybersecurity and Technology Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released an exposure draft of its model bulletin titled “Use of Algorithms, Predictive Models, and...more
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
The NAIC issues a 10-page bulletin laying out regulatory guidance regarding the use of algorithms, AI and predictive models; Connecticut lawmakers address the state’s use of AI; and leading AI companies meet at the White...more
On July 17, 2023, the NAIC released the Exposure Draft of the Model Bulletin on the Use of Algorithms, Predictive Models, and Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Written comments will be accepted by the NAIC through...more
Various chefs within the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and some individual states’ chefs continue to address insurers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), the use and protection of...more
On Wednesday February 22, 2023, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) Accelerated Underwriting (A) Working Group (the “working group”) exposed for a 45-day comment period draft regulatory guidance while...more
At the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Fall National Meeting (Fall Meeting), the various NAIC groups hit the industry with an array of snowballs of various actual and proposed surveys, guidance,...more
Our latest briefing explores the recent FTC commercial surveillance and data security forum (including discussion on widespread use of AI and algorithms in advertising), California’s inquiry into potentially discriminatory...more
As the various NAIC groups and state regulators continue to ascertain the seaworthiness of insurers’ use of consumer data, algorithms, and machine learning, these lookouts have set their sights on unfair discrimination. The...more
The Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory team of lawyers recently attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer National Meeting which was held in Portland, Oregon on August 9-13th. We have...more
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
Our latest briefing explores the NAIC’s efforts to address algorithmic bias, the Colorado Division of Insurance’s latest stakeholder session on external consumer data and algorithms, and a private-sector solution for...more
With the growing use of algorithms and external consumer data, several national and international bodies have recently drafted work product or proposed regulations as follows...more
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
As the insurance industry seeks to implement new technology, several NAIC groups and states are addressing the regulatory landscape to evolve with the changes. ...more
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