Archive

  • US Senator joins calls for greater scrutiny of PE-owned insurers

    18 March 2022

    Sherrod Brown expresses concern over riskier, unregulated PE involvement in insurance

  • Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in

    04 February 2022

    Private equity companies have been acquiring insurers at an unheard of rate. Now regulators have raised concerns over asset risk and short-term greed overcoming long-term sense, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  • The FIO's climate letters reveal burning desires

    30 November 2021

    The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has published a raft of comment letters after its request for information on climate regulation. Could this be the tinder to spark new rules? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • NAIC to issue redesigned climate survey as it defends progress

    12 November 2021

    The US is pushing its insurers to match the efforts of European peers

  • Mandatory climate reporting to become the norm, says Kreidler

    10 November 2021

    US climate disclosure survey is argued to be ahead of "more progressive nations"

  • US cyber market grew 29% in 2020 but remains miniscule overall

    10 November 2021

    The cyber line accounts for just 0.4% of overall P&C premiums, NAIC finds

  • NAIC work aligns with global climate goals, say state regulators

    04 November 2021

    US state commissioners turning to modelling for future development

  • IRC Americas: NAIC president-elect warns insurers about cyber security

    23 September 2021

    Dean Cameron spoke at the Insurance Risk and Capital Americas virtual conference

  • Maurice Perkins: Transamerica's transatlantic negotiator

    26 August 2021

    Transamerica's global head of government and policy affairs talks to Sarfraz Thind about US and international insurance regulation, Biden's tax reforms and the cultural differences that keep his job interesting

  • NAIC's discrimination investigation lacks substance, says think-tank

    18 August 2021

    Regulatory body voted this week to investigate insurer activities which could marginalise minorities