Senator Breslin to Chair NCOIL Special Committee on Race in Underwriting
This week, the National Conference of Insurance Legislators announced the formation of a Special Committee on Race in Insurance Underwriting. The new committee will study race-related issues in insurance underwriting, with an eye to protect the jurisdiction of state legislatures over the regulation of insurance. The committee will be chaired by Senator Neil Breslin (D, Delmar), the current chairman of the New York State Senate Insurance Committee.The Special Committee will take testimony from stakeholders and work to define “proxy discrimination", which has been used to refer to seemingly neutral practices which disproportionately harm members of certain ethnicity, gender, or other protected class. The committee also…