NAIC Approves Model Bulletin on Use of AI by Insurers
Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) voted to adopt the Model Bulletin on the Use of Algorithms, Predictive Models, and Artificial ...
Insurance Regulation
Calculating Targeted California Returns on Surplus
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Report on Profitability by Line and by State provides a comparison of the rates of return on net worth for the last 10 years (through ...
Permitted After-Tax Returns for California Insurers (2012-2021)
Since reinsurance costs are ultimately a substitute for direct costs of capital, we can better understand the ratemaking process in California by understanding how companies are allowed to ...
Rebuilding the California Property Market: Reinsurance Costs and Recent Reforms
In November of last year, Allstate paused writing new homeowners policies in California. State Farm, the state's largest homeowners writer, stopped accepting new applications for insurance back in ...
‘Risky in California’ Spurs Push for Home Insurance Overhaul
California is prioritizing home insurance availability as it rewrites market rules to coax back insurers and ease a coverage crunch in a state ravaged by wildfires, said Insurance Commissioner ...
How a Regional Carrier Protects Against a $60B California Cat Event
While two dozen interested parties spoke at a recent California Department of Insurance workshop on the use of catastrophe modeling in pricing, offering predictable messages supporting carrier, ...
California’s Next Steps: Picking the Right Cat Models and Staffing Up
Is $11 million too much to pay for a public catastrophe model? Does the California Department of Insurance have to hire a new contingent of specialists to understand private models, if those are ...
Calif. Commish Calls for Biggest Reform Since Prop 103; Planned Fixes Detailed
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced a package of sweeping executive actions that include changes to the FAIR Plan, new rules for the review of climate catastrophe models, and ...
Breaking: California to Offer Insurers More Leeway to Set Rates for Fire Risk
California's insurance commissioner announced a new regulatory plan on Thursday that would allow insurers to factor future climate risks into their pricing and require them to offer more coverage in ...
Are Winds of Change Blowing on California Insurance Law?
It would be wrong to assume that California regulators and lawmakers are only now starting to ponder what to do about a potential insurance crisis in the wildfire-prone ...