Regulation & Compliance
European Union Agrees Landmark Deal Governing Use of Artificial Intelligence
Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments' use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to ...
Florida Commish, NAMIC Push Back on Federal Climate Change Data Call
Florida's insurance commissioner and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies are pushing back against a plan by the U.S. Treasury to collect data from insurers on risks from climate ...
U.S. Personal Lines Outlook Continues to Be Negative: AM Best
The U.S. personal lines insurance industry faces too many daunting challenges, leading AM Best to maintain its negative outlook. The outlook for personal lines was changed to negative in September ...
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 ...
Artificial Intelligence Not Main Cause of Recent Insurance Layoffs: AM Best
AM Best does not believe artificial intelligence is the main cause of recent insurance industry layoffs. In commentary released today, the credit rating agency wrote that "it is too soon to cite AI ...
CSE ‘Runoff’ Prompts Downgrade, Withdrawal of AM Best Ratings
AM Best announced that is has downgraded and withdrawn the financial strength ratings of CSE Insurance Group's Civil Service Employees Insurance Company and CSE Safeguard Insurance Company, ...
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 ...