Regulation/Legislation

Comments made during the National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting produced two sharply differing views among state regulators over the future benefit of health care reform to consumers.

To combat workers' comp fraud, why not make it standard operating procedure to send claimants an Explanation of Benefits, as health insurers routinely do now, wonders NU Editor Sam Friedman on his blog.

A Republican runoff in Oklahoma set the stage for a colorful race for state insurance commissioner between the state's first woman commissioner and a Republican who is challenging the constitutionality of the health care law.

Legislative and regulatory restraint, strong statewide building codes, and incentive programs to entice new insurers to Louisiana have each contributed to the state's recovery since Hurricane Katrina.

Swiss Re and Lloyd's are warning the Treasury Department that the current federal terrorism risk insurance program is underpinning the market, and ending the program would likely substantially limit private market capacity for terrorism risk coverage.

A group that represents North American chief financial officers of insurers and reinsurers said the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has proposed