The regulator leading the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' controversial effort to collect insurer climate risk data said companies will be given lots of leeway in responding. But carrier groups–already leery about the possible exposures they'll face by participating–are also alarmed about how the survey might be implemented should a particular state not fully cooperate.

Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario, who chairs the NAIC's Climate Change and Global Warming Task Force, addressed the issue last week during a Climate Risk Summit here.

At an earlier NAIC Task Force session, in remarks that had surprised insurance trade group representatives, he had said that, in pursuing data for NAIC's Climate Change Disclosure Survey, if an individual state chooses not to administer the survey to a domiciled insurance group, regulators will seek the information from one of their subsidiary companies in another state.

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