Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The report, based on home insurance price and availability data collected by the association of state regulators from private insurers last year, confirms rising costs and non-renewals, and the impact of climate change on these increases. The U.S. Treasury's insurance office stopped short of publicly releasing the data used for the report.
March 4 -
The consortium of businesses intends to work with state regulators to protect consumers as interest from secondary market investors also grows.
February 14 -
A proposal to tie cancellation of private mortgage insurance policies to automated valuation models would add unnecessary risk to mortgage portfolios and would result in less, not more, affordable housing.
February 14 -
The Trump administration's nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jonathan McKernan, is seen as an institutionalist with a deep knowledge of policy. But whether he keeps the bureau shuttered or rebuilds it is uncertain.
February 14 -
The North Carolina Rate Bureau, representing home insurers, settled for two 7.5% increases this year and next, after originally seeking a 42% rate increase. NCRB says the settlement just postpones the need for higher rates to accurately cover risks, while the insurance commissioner calls it "a big win" for homeowners.
January 22 -
Verisk and Moody's are the first two modeling companies to submit their models to the California Department of Insurance. A Verisk executive explained the functioning of their model and what insurers' options are.
January 10 -
The adoption of AI applications is creating a need for regulation to protect against bias, data privacy issues, cybersecurity and other risks.
December 30 -
A multi-state coalition of insurance commissioners issued a joint letter to the Department of Government Efficiency advising the closure of the Federal Insurance Office.
December 20 -
For the third time in five years, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued an enforcement action against the beleaguered bank. It bars USAA from adding new products or loosening its membership criteria without evaluating the risks of getting bigger.
December 18 -
Academics with opposing views argued, in a U.S. Senate Budget Committee hearing, whether inflation and litigation, rather than climate change, are causing home insurance non-renewals and rate hikes.
December 18 -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is considering suing former Silicon Valley Bank executives over risk management decisions, imprudent dividends and billions in losses that fueled a banking crisis in 2023.
December 18 -
The California Department of Insurance and its commissioner hosted a public workshop where consumer advocates and insurers staked their positions on who should pay for the net cost of reinsurance and why.
December 16 -
Numerous reports and lawsuits have criticized the health insurer for using algorithms to ramp up denials of coverage.
December 12 -
The agency cited the closeness of the entities to Florida's government.
November 25 -
Amid steady customer growth, USAA's banking arm failed to make the investments necessary to satisfy either its regulators or some decades-long customers. Changes in the executive suite haven't fixed the problems.
November 21 -
The new regulation could be a game changer for health plans, but employers must be prepared to expand their coverage.
November 21 -
California authorities issued their latest moratorium against non-renewal of residential property insurance after wildfires in Ventura County. It's the eighth this year and 34th since 2019. The state's insurance commissioner authored a law while a state senator to make these moratoriums automatic after a state of emergency.
November 20 -
Long and complicated cyber breach litigation can be prevented with proactive precautions and quick action against intrusions, say cybersecurity insurance experts.
November 18 -
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said it is "fundamentally unfair" that uninsured depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank got a reprieve from regulators while those at First National Bank of Lindsay did not.
November 18 -
The growth in mobile banking has lowered barriers to accessing the banking system, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s National Survey of the Unbanked and Underbanked released Tuesday reveals that minority households are still disproportionately underserved.
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