The tech companies collaborated on an ERM framework designed to help carriers comply with the 2012 Solvency II regulations.

How the Fed's new authority will be exercised is unknown, but it embodies a major shift in the thinking about, and approach to, functional oversight since previous legislation on the topic.

In wake of health care debate, Leslie Margolin takes leave to head coalition.

Once the bill is signed regulators will have the task of implementing hundreds of regulations and commencing dozens of studies.

Two of the industry’s top advocates in Washington give INN an inside look as landmark legislation passes.

Policy circles already are abuzz about what changes to seek in a "corrections" bill to fix problems with the legislation.

As landmark legislation makes it way to the President’s desk, insurers look ahead to rule-making phase with trepidation.

Industry cheers flood extension as wind damage amendment complicates matters.

The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 60 to 39; it now moves on to the president, who is expected to sign it next week.

Lawmakers voted for cloture with the help of three key Republicans, meaning the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act must now clear a simple majority to pass the Senate.

The reform bill, which could pass today, should make the Fed a more assertive regulator focused on anticipating the next systemic threat.

Annuities deemed not to be securities and will remain under state regulatory purview.

Senate passage may come Thursday after Sen. Nelson's commitment.

Last procedural roadblocks blocking landmark legislation are cleared as Sen. Olympia Snowe signals she will back bill.

Claims-handling, licensing and underwriting issues continue to dominate the annual list of market conduct exams.

Both the Property Casualty Insurers of America (PIA) and the American Insurance Association (AIA) hailed a Michigan Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision stating that the Michigan insurance commissioner does not have the authority to arbitrarily ban the use of credit-based information by insurers in pricing and underwriting. The decision, which arose from the Insurance Institute of Michigan, et al v. Commissioner, Michigan Financial and Insurance Services, Department of Labor and Economic Growth, plays forward in positive ways for insureds, notes David Snyder, vice president and associate general counsel of the AIA.

Auto parts, market conduct rules on the docket at legislators’ summer meeting.

Insurer says old enrollment forms containing sensitive information were mistakenly left in discarded file cabinet.

The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a website to enable consumers across the nation to compare and choose health insurance plans operating in their geographic region.

The bill lays out an ambitious agenda for consumer protection, but leaves the new regulator on its own for how to accomplish those goals in addition to getting itself up and running.