All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2004 // Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Services (OFIS) Commissioner Linda A. Watters announced that new rules designed to help protect the security and confidentiality of insurance companies’ customer information...
Jun 14 2004 // Privacy legislation has affected almost all consumers of goods and services in the United States.Most notably, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) passed by the federal government in November of 1999 sets forth a complex set...
Feb 6 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee members to reject proposed legislation regarding the privacy of financial information, indicating that the current proposals...
Oct 6 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty industry during the 2003...
Sep 29 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty insurance industry during the...
Sep 8 2003 // Gov. Gray Davis signed California financial privacy legislation into law Aug. 28, enacting one of the nation’s most restrictive state privacy measures, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies...
Aug 28 2003 // Gov. Gray Davis signed California financial privacy legislation into law Aug. 28, enacting one of the nation’s most restrictive state privacy measures, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies...
Aug 20 2003 // Financial privacy legislation swiftly passed the California Assembly Aug. 18 and the Senate Aug. 19, and Senate Bill 1 is expected to reach Gov. Gray Davis’ desk for his signature Aug. 20.“Uniform privacy...
Aug 18 2003 // California Governor Gray Davis made the following statement on privacy legislation in light of the upcoming deadline for passage of SB1 the financial privacy measure sponsored by Senator Jackie Speier: “I have been...
Aug 1 2003 // News that privacy advocates claim to have gathered enough valid signatures to have their Consumer Information Privacy Initiative appear on the March 2004 California primary election ballot could signal the beginning of a...
Jun 19 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers is pleased with recent privacy developments in the California Legislature. On June 17, SB 1 failed in the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee, receiving only three yes votes from the...
Jun 18 2003 // A Senate bill that would reportedly create the country’s most restrictive privacy standards passed the full Senate and is pending in the Assembly, where it was heard June 17 in the Assembly Banking and Finance...
Apr 23 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin in favor of a Massachusetts bill giving the insurance commissioner authority to promulgate privacy regulations consistent with the federal...
Apr 21 2003 // For the past four years, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has been in a fight to avoid “a solution in search of a problem”—a financial privacy measure that has been approved by the California State...
Apr 14 2003 // Both houses of the Montana Legislature have approved HB 205, the Insurance Department’s bill to amend the state’s Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act, according to the Alliance of American...
Feb 24 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National Association of...
Feb 19 2003 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) says a California consumer privacy bill that was set to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 18 is unnecessary because current state law and department of...
Feb 11 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” down the road to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National...
Oct 24 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers indicated that it supports a proposed privacy rule being considered by the Illinois Department of Insurance, as it will “further safeguard the personal information of...
Jun 24 2002 // Syntrio Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of online training materials, released a new online course, Privacy Laws and Practices: Applying the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to the Insurance Industry, to provide information to...