A new fingerprinting requirement for insurance agents will be among the areas that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners focuses on when it meets March 4-7 in Orlando, Fla., an official said.
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan Voss, chair of the "D" committee said she is at work on the development of a new version of the Authorization for Criminal History Record Check model act, also known as the Fingerprint model act.
Efforts to move the controversial model along stalled earlier this month when it did not receive a motion to advance it through the NAIC.
Commissioner Voss said that she is working on a new draft now. At press time, she could not offer specifics on the new model draft but did say that it "will not look like the previous model."
Other important issues for "D" committee will be creating more uniformity among states in the producer licensing process and streamlining market conduct annual statements, she said.
For instance, Ms. Voss said, different states have different requirements established by the state secretaries. And, in the case of the market conduct annual statement, the way that data is keyed in can have an impact on the number of complaints for a specific kind of problem.
For example, she asks, "Is a complaint an auto complaint or a medical complaint that is associated with an auto insurance complaint?"
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