In this bonus coverage from the AAIS Pulse session Commissioner’s Corner: Catching Up with National & State Insurance Regulators, host Lori Dreaver Munn, Director of Compliance and Government Relations at AAIS spoke with Andrew Mais, Commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department (DOI) and NAIC President-Elect about initiatives for the Connecticut DOI in 2023.

There have been many obstacles in solving data and technology issues across the insurance ecosystem and other industries have raised their game with an open-source mindset. In the AAIS Pulse session, Open-Source Solutions for Today’s Insurance Challenges, host Joan Zerkovich, Senior Vice President of Operations at AAIS, led a discussion with Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Blockchain and Identity at The Linux Foundation and Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation, and Hart Montgomery, CTO at the Hyperledger Foundation, to explore what insurance challenges could be addressed in an open-source environment. They examined how initiatives like openIDL are different from past efforts in the industry and how carriers and other stakeholders get involved in leveraging these technologies to define the future of information-sharing in insurance.

In the AAIS Pulse session Commissioner’s Corner: Catching Up with National & State Insurance Regulators, host Lori Dreaver Munn, Director of Compliance and Government Relations at AAIS spoke with multiple leading regulators for their insights on trending regulatory topics including Jon Godfread, Insurance Commissioner for the North Dakota Insurance Department and NAIC Vice President. In this interview, Godfread talked about potential repercussions from the Silicon Valley Bank fallout and FDIC bailout, POC testing with openIDL, top initiatives for North Dakota, and more.

In the AAIS Pulse session Commissioner’s Corner: Catching Up with National & State Insurance Regulators, host Lori Dreaver Munn, Director of Compliance and Government Relations at AAIS spoke with multiple leading regulators for their insights on trending regulatory topics including Scott White, Commissioner of the Virginia State Corporation’s Bureau of Insurance and NAIC Secretary-Treasurer. In this interview, White talks about his top issues of concern for the NAIC in 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain in insurance, key initiatives for the state of Virginia, and more.

In the AAIS Pulse session Commissioner’s Corner: Catching Up with National & State Insurance Regulators, host Lori Dreaver Munn, Director of Compliance and Government Relations at AAIS spoke with multiple leading regulators for their insights on trending regulatory topics including Andrew Mais, Commissioner of the Connecticut Insurance Department and NAIC President-Elect. In this interview, Mais talked about his reaction to Mike Consedine’s departure from the NAIC, major initiatives for the NAIC in 2023, modernizing policy reviews in Connecticut, and more. 

In the AAIS Pulse session Commissioner’s Corner: Catching Up with National & State Insurance Regulators, host Lori Dreaver Munn, Director of Compliance and Government Relations at AAIS spoke with multiple leading regulators for their insights on trending regulatory topics including Chlora Lindley-Myers, Director of the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance and NAIC President. In this interview, Lindley-Myers discussed her approach going into this year’s presidency, initiatives currently underway for 2023, progress in the area of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the insurance industry, and more. 

Insurance carriers are still dealing with the fallout from the most challenging reinsurance market in a generation, where there was a significant fundamental pivot in pricing and risk appetite, especially for property catastrophe risk. In the AAIS Pulse session, Exploring Fundamental Shifts in the Reinsurance Market, host Ed Kelly led a discussion with Andy Marcell, CEO of Aon Reinsurance Solutions, and Frank Nutter, President of Reinsurance Association of America (RAA), as they shared insights on what caused such dramatic changes across the industry, the government reaction, and how carriers can prepare themselves for success moving forward during this challenging time.

Professor Bob Hartwig, clinical associate professor at University of South Carolina touched on the various issues affecting insurance carriers during the latest AAIS Pulse: Chicago presentation. During a time of immense political and economic change and challenges seen across the insurance market, he also touched on reasons to be optimistic for the future of our economy.

Professor Bob Hartwig, clinical associate professor at University of South Carolina, was interviewed for the latest AAIS Pulse: Chicago presentation. He examined current economic conditions and their impact on the insurance market as a whole, but also discussed how those conditions will impact the global and domestic reinsurance markets.

As a part of the AAIS Pulse: Chicago presentation, AAIS Product Manager of Auto Ash Naik  hosted Matt Kendzior from Ownli to explore options available to insurance carriers to roll-out UBI options with varying levels of sophistication. Starting with the assessment of current options, they looked at simplest to the most elaborate options at your disposal.