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Leader's Edge Magazine

LE may 2013

May 2013 Issue Now Online

Fully Exposed
Medical and scientific breakthroughs promise healthier lives while threatening privacy and ethical issues.

M&A Annual Report: The Year That Defied Gravity
Federal Policy Fuels Brokerage M&A Engine, but Strangles Small Group Benefit Firms. 


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  • Get Involved
    Council members can lend their voice to the political process in a variety of ways.
  • Federal Issues
    The Council strongly supports regulatory reform efforts that strengthen the commercial insurance industry.  Recent efforts in the 111th Congress to overhaul the country’s financial regulatory system include provisions to establish an Office of National Insurance with in the Department of Treasury.
 

State Issues

Broker Compensation 

Broker compensation has been a major issue of concern for Council members since October 2004 when New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced he was investigating the insurance industry.  More

Countersignature Litigation

Since 2004, District Court judges in Nevada, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and the United States Virgin Islands have agreed with Council lawsuits and ruled that the countersignature laws in the four jurisdictions are unconstitutional.  More >

Producer Licensing 

Although producer licensing processes have improved since the enactment of the NARAB provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the inefficiencies and inconsistencies that remain affect every insurer, every producer and every insurance consumer, imposing unnecessary costs at every level due to the regulatory and administrative burdens they impose. The Council continues to work with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to streamline the individual and business entity licensing processes.  The Council also supports NARAB II, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Members, click here for more.  



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