A trade group representing risk retention groups has warned the state of Washington that it is making an improper effort to change federal law and impose its own regulations on RRGs.

That message, delivered by Robert H. Myers Jr., general counsel for the National Risk Retention Association, is the latest in a series of run-ins between states and the RRGs that operate under the federal Liability Risk Retention Act.

Mr. Myers said, however, that the Washington State move is the first of its kind. At issue is Washington's demand that when RRGs holding charters in another state register to do business in Washington, they accept that the rules they operate under in their home charter state may not apply.

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