Insurance Regulation in the United States - An Overview for Business and Government

List of contents

Introduction
Historical Background
State Versus Federal Insurance Regulation
Formation and Organization of Insurers
Licensing of Insurers
Assets, Reserves, and Investments
Annual Statements and Periodic Examinations
Rates and Rating Organizations
Insurance Contracts
Assigned Risk Plans and Other Residual Market Mechanisms
Agents, Brokers, and Other Representatives
Holding Companies and Corporate Changes
Non-Admitted Insurers and Other Risk Management Alternatives
Insurer Insolvencies and State Guaranty Funds
Reinsurance
Trade Practices and Miscellaneous Regulation
State and Federal Taxation of Insurers
Appendix: McCarran-Ferguson Act
Table of Key Statutory Provisions
Further Reading
Index

About the author

PETER M. LENCSIS is an attorney in private practice in New York City. Formerly Vice President and General Counsel of Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company and Senior Staff Counsel to the National Council on Compensation Insurance, he has contributed to legal treatises in his field and serves as an adjunct professor at the College of Insurance, New York City. His first book, Insurance Regulation in the United States, was published by Quorum in 1997.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lencsis
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.1997
• EAN: 9781567200850
• ISBN: 978-1-56720-085-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 425 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; USA, LAW / Business & Financial, financial law, United States of America, USA, Financial law: general, Social security and welfare law, Social security & welfare law, Business: Finance, Investments and Banking