For those of you waiting breathlessly for the Federal Insurance Office’s reports on reinsurance and insurance regulation, you may want to find a comfortable chair. Some analysts predict the overdue reports probably won’t be coming out until after the November election. Apparently, nobody is looking to alienate state regulators or the insurance industry at this delicate time. Why poke a bear if you don’t have to? Nevermind that these reports were due month ...

Insurance giant AIG, the company that gave us the “too-big-to-fail” ethos in the first place, was notified by the feds this week that it may officially be deemed too big to fail and, thus, subject to enhanced scrutiny and regulatory oversight. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, “too big to fail” is the nomenclature commonly applied to banks and other financial institutions the failure of which would significantly threaten the United States' financial stabil ...

Since the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 nearly two years ago, corporate policyholders and industry insiders alike have anticipated its impact on the insurance industry.  Among other measures, the unprecedented financial reform law mandated significant federal regulation of insurance, created generous incentives for whistleblowers that provide quality information regarding potential securities violations, imposed aggressive pe ...

Among other sweeping reforms designed to mitigate against the next financial crisis, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank) created the first federal regulatory agency focused on insurance, an industry historically subject primarily to state regulation under the McCarren-Ferguson Act of 1945.  Undoubtedly prompted by the near-failure of insurance giant AIG, the Federal Insurance Office Act of 2010 established the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) within the U. ...