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The NAIC’s privacy protections and cybersecurity working groups have continued their building efforts....more
On March 26, 2025, the Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee (“H Committee”) met at the Spring 2025 US National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”). The meeting covered...more
Trying to plot the course for a data security plan in 2025 requires piecing together the maps of various cartographers and decoding each map’s legends and keys....more
In our recent webinar, members of the Eversheds Sutherland Insurance Practice Group discussed noteworthy developments from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Fall National Meeting that was held in...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Privacy Protections (H) Working Group (the “Working Group”) has continued its charge to draft a new or revised model law aimed at standardizing privacy protections...more
The Privacy Protections (H) Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) met on Wednesday June 12, 2024, to consider which proposed path forward to pursue as it considers a new NAIC privacy...more
On May 15, 2024, the Privacy Protections (H) Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) held its first meeting since the Spring National Meeting in March. The working group seeks public...more
Drivers, start your engines. It has been months of high speed for privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence....more
For over 100 years, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has been developing model legislation to encourage uniformity among states for the regulation of insurance products. The NAIC model laws and...more
Technological advances, especially in Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing, will continue to amaze in the coming years. They will open up vast new opportunities while presenting profound regulatory, litigation, and...more
The first half of 2023 saw a flurry of activity in the privacy and data security spaces. We outline below some of the key developments of interest to the insurance industry....more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2023 Summer National Meeting from August 12 to 16 in Seattle, Washington. As has become the norm, a number of relevant NAIC working groups and task forces...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2023 Spring National Meeting March 21-25 in Louisville, Kentucky. The agenda for this National Meeting was limited, with a number of NAIC working groups...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Privacy Protection Working Group (PPWG) released Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law #674 (Model 674) on February 1, 2023. New Model 674 was expressly...more
On February 1, the NAIC’s Privacy Working Group’s new privacy model germinated. After months of development, the exposure draft, titled “Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law #674” (Proposed Model), has finally...more
Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee Adopts Request for Modernized Privacy Protections Model Law; Receives Working Group Reports - The Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee met on...more
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear recently signed House Bill 474 to become the latest state to enact data insurance security legislation. The new law is modeled after the data security law of the National Association of ...more
As the world emerged from lockdown, it should come as no surprise that cybersecurity and data privacy remained dominant topics in the media and legal industry. Some of 2021 was much like 2020 – ransomware attacks continued to...more
On November 18, calling frozen federal legislative efforts “an opportunity” for state insurance regulators to “update state privacy protections … and potentially forestall or mitigate the impacts of any preemptive federal...more
The NAIC Data Security Model Law (Model 668) continues its journey through the various state legislatures. Whether all 50 states meet the U.S. Treasury-recommended 2022 deadline for adoption of uniform data security...more
On April 30, 2021, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law the Iowa Insurance Data Security Act, making Iowa the latest state to adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioner's model cybersecurity law. Effective...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioner (NAIC)’s model data security law (“Model Law”) was recently adopted by Maine and North Dakota. This addition brings the total number to states that have joined the NAIC...more
CYBERSECURITY - Cisco/Talos Researchers Find Attackers Using Slack and Discord to Distribute Malware - Another example of the resiliency and creativity of cyber-attackers is outlined in a new blog by Cisco/Talos...more
It was a tumultuous year for privacy and cybersecurity, and further uncertainty is all but guaranteed. The key to navigating this volatility, as 2020 proved, is to develop and maintain a proactive, agile and holistic data...more
After a brief hiatus due to COVID-19, the NAIC’s Privacy Working Group returned to work on May 5 discussing comments received on the working group’s markup of the NAIC Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Model Act...more