The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law (MDL-668) was finalized in October 2017 and subsequently passed in South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, and Mississippi. Moreover, the NAIC model borrowed heavily from the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation (23 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 500). The NAIC’s 2017 passage of MDL-668 set the stage …
Continue reading States Enact Data Security Measures: Michigan and Mississippi
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law (MDL-668) was finalized in October 2017 and subsequently passed in South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, and Mississippi. Moreover, the NAIC model borrowed heavily from the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation (23 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 500). The NAIC’s 2017 passage of MDL-668 set …
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law (MDL-668) was finalized in October 2017 and subsequently passed in South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, and Mississippi. Moreover, the NAIC model borrowed heavily from the New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulation (23 N.Y.C.R.R. Part 500). The NAIC’s 2017 passage of MDL-668 set …
Continue reading States Enact Data Security Measures: South Carolina
Earlier this year, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) teamed up with Committee ranking member Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to request feedback from interested parties on the privacy, protection, and collection of sensitive information by financial regulators and private companies. In the leaders' statement accompanying the solicitation, they cited the Equifax breach as an …
Continue reading PIA National Responds to Senate Banking Request for Data Privacy Feedback
The five federal agencies with oversight over mortgage lenders are in the process of jointly issuing a final rule on private flood insurance. Treasury and the FDIC have already indicated their approval of the rule. If it is approved by the Federal Reserve, the Farm Credit Administration, and the NCUA, the final rule will become …
In a major win for PIA National and small-business insurance agencies across the country, final regulations were issued on Friday, January 18, by the U.S. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) saying that, for the most part, insurance agents are permitted to take the 20 percent pass-through deduction provided by the tax law passed …
Continue reading Twenty Percent Tax Deduction Available to Insurance Agents
Here at PIA National, we work with Congress and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help keep the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) up and running, particularly at times when the program undergoes its periodic reauthorizations by Congress. The last couple of weeks were particularly busy on that front, as the NFIP was scheduled …
Continue reading Despite Christmastime Confusion, the NFIP is Up and Running
