NYAIP Seeks Public Members for Governing, Peer Review Committees

​The New York State Department of Financial Services has asked producer trade organizations to distribute the following message:Dear Producers,Section 4 of the New York Automobile Insurance Plan (NYAIP) manual provides for the Department of Financial Services to appoint at least 4 public member alternates to the Governing Committee of the NYAIP. Section 15A of the New York Automobile Insurance Plan (NYAIP) manual provides for the Department of Financial Services to appoint at least 4 public members,  1 company member and their respective alternates to the Producer Certification Peer Review Panel.At the request of the Department of Financial Services (DFS,) the NYAIP is soliciting producer trade…

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ACORD Changes Flood Insurance Forms

​Photo by Sue Thompson​. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 2.0 license​. Insurance standards setting organization ACORD has announced revisions to two of its published forms pertaining to flood insurance. You should plan on using the new editions starting in December. ACORD is treating both as new forms due to the number of changes.​ACORD 301 (2022/12), National Flood Insurance Program - Flood Insurance Application, replaces the 2015/04 edition. It is designed to work with the NFIP's Risk Rating 2.0: Equity In ACTION rating methodology, introduced last year. ACORD 304 (2022/12), NFIP - Flood Insurance Cancellation/Nullification​, replaces the 2018/08 edition. It is designed to work with the policy cancellation…

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​ Draft Amendments to Cybersecurity Amendments Announced; Big I NY to Submit Comments

​What Happened:On July 29th, the NYSDFS released a pre-proposed draft of forthcoming amendments to 23 NYCRR 500, New York's sweeping cyber regulation. The DFS proposes a wide range of changes to the regulation, including but not limited to:Require covered entities to strictly limit the number of “privileged accounts", aka those able to perform security-relevant functionsMore specific requirements for entity risk assessments, required annually and when there is a material change to risk, as opposed to “periodically."Possibly requiring employees of covered entities to develop their own third-party service provider policies. We have requested clarification on this as it would have troubling implications for individual agents.Expand the…

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