Insurance regulation : background and issues / Nelson R. Phillips, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Nelson R.

Series:

Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives

Economic issues, problems and perspectives series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insurance law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Novinka, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The individual states have been the primary regulators of insurance since 1868. Following the 1945 McCarran-Ferguson Act, this system has operated with the explicit blessing of Congress, but has also been subject to periodic scrutiny and suggestions that the time may have come for Congress to reclaim the regulatory authority that it granted to the states. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, congressional scrutiny was largely driven by the increasing complexities of the insurance business and concern over whether the states were up to the task of ensuring consumer protections, particularly insur

Contents:

""INSURANCE REGULATION: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES""; ""INSURANCE REGULATION: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: INSURANCE REGULATION: ISSUES, BACKGROUND, AND LEGISLATION IN THE 113TH CONGRESS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""LEGISLATION IN THE 113TH CONGRESS""; ""IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DODD-FRANK ACT""; ""INTERNATIONAL ISSUES""; ""STATE REGULATORY MODERNIZATION EFFORTS""; ""APPENDIX A. EVOLUTION OF INSURANCE REGULATION""

""APPENDIX B. CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY FOR FEDERAL REGULATION OF THE BUSINESS OF INSURANCE73""""APPENDIX C. PAST INSURANCE REGULATORY LEGISLATION AND PROPOSALS""; ""Chapter 2: INSURANCE AGENT LICENSING: OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND ON FEDERAL “NARAB� LEGISLATION""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INSURANCE REGULATION AND FEDERAL LEGISLATION""; ""INSURANCE PRODUCER LICENSING""; ""LEGISLATION IN THE 113TH CONGRESS""; ""PAST NARAB LEGISLATION""; ""Chapter 3: INSURANCE REGULATION: FEDERAL CHARTER LEGISLATION""; ""SUMMARY""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""PREVIOUS FEDERAL CHARTERING LEGISLATION""

""Chapter 4: THE LIABILITY RISK RETENTION ACT: BACKGROUND, ISSUES, AND CURRENT LEGISLATION""""SUMMARY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""RECENT LEGISLATION""; ""RISK RETENTION AND PURCHASING GROUP STRUCTURE AND REGULATION""; ""LEGISLATIVE HISTORY""; ""RRGS AND RPGS SINCE 1986""; ""APPENDIX. RISK RETENTION GROUPS STATISTICS""; ""Chapter 5: THE DODD-FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT: INSURANCE PROVISIONS""; ""SUMMARY""; ""INSURANCE AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS""; ""THE DODD-FRANK WALL STREET REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT (P.L. 111-203)""

""Chapter 6: SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE: BACKGROUND AND CURRENT LEGISLATION""""SUMMARY""; ""BACKGROUND ON INSURANCE REGULATION""; ""REGULATION OF SURPLUS LINES INSURANCE""; ""THE SURPLUS LINES MARKETPLACE""; ""LEGISLATION""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2013).

ISBN:

1-62948-142-4