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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
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
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
On February 1, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (PPWG) released a draft of Model Law 674 Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (Model 674 or Model). Proposed Model 674 is intended to replace Model...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
On Wednesday February 1, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (the Working Group) released a draft of a new model law for comment, the Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (#674) (the Proposal), which...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
The first half of 2022 brought plenty of activity in the data privacy and cybersecurity space, much of which is applicable to or of interest to the insurance industry. We outline some of this activity below. Revisions to...more
Vermont Governor Scott signed the Vermont Insurance Data Security Law (available here) (the “VIDSL”), becoming the 22nd state to adopt a cybersecurity statute based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...more
In April, Kentucky (HB 474) and Maryland (SB 207) adopted insurance data security legislation based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) model law. A total of 15 states have adopted the NAIC Model...more
The NAIC’s Privacy Protections Working Group has updated its work plan, planting two crops for its fall 2023 harvest: Time will tell what other seedlings catch the NAIC’s eye. The above dates, however, are subject to growing...more
Kentucky became the latest state to adopt the NAIC insurance data security model law with Governor Andy Beshear’s signing of House Bill 474. The new law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023, and gives covered licensees one or two...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
On July 15, 2021, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed Act 73 (Act) into law, making Wisconsin the latest state to adopt the National Association of Insurance Commissioner's (NAIC) model cybersecurity law. Most recently, Iowa...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
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
Maine and North Dakota recently adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) data security model law. They join at least 11 others states who have already adopted the model law. The model law applies to...more
As insurers continue to grapple with a number of pressing issues — COVID-19 lockdown, an effective California Consumer Privacy Act, and the pending California Privacy Rights Act — many may have lost track of states’ actions...more
In 2019, many of us were so consumed by preparations for the January 1, 2020, effectiveness of the CCPA that we may have lost track of activities concerning state enactment of the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law. To...more
States continue to implement insurance-specific cyber and data security regulations, drawing on either the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Data Security Model Law (“Model Law”) or the New York...more
Since July 1, 2019, Delaware, New Hampshire and Connecticut have enacted laws imposing new cybersecurity requirements on insurers. These laws follow similar statutes already operating in at least six other states: Alabama,...more