(Webcast) Current Issues in Insurance Regulation 2021

Friday, September 24, 2021 | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

• Description
• Faculty
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• The 31^st annual program on Current Issues in Insurance Regulation features regional and national leaders exploring topical issues of importance to the insurance industry, with opportunities for questions and interaction with the faculty. As in prior programs, we will address up-to-the-minute, cutting edge regulatory and other emerging issues affecting the insurance industry and consumers alike, with a focus on New York and national issues.

  Among the topics for this year’s program are:

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Discrimination in Insurance –How Digital Technology Is Changing Risk-Based Underwriting, Ethics and Fairness
  • The Insurance M&A Boom: Opportunities across Sectors; Consolidation; New Areas for Growth; Transaction Structures; and the Regulatory Response
  • A Commissioners’ Roundtable showcasing the vantage point of state-insurance regulators

  Program Fee:
  $299 for Members^* | $399 for Nonmembers
  In-House Counsel: Free for Members^* | $349 for Nonmembers
  Government/Nonprofit/Academic/Judiciary/Recent Law Graduate/Newly Admitted Lawyer/Student: Free for Members^* | $199 for Nonmembers
  IFNY and LICONY members, please call Customer Relations (212.382.6663) to register at the member rate.

  ^*City Bar, IFNY & LICONY Members

• Program Co-Chairs:

  Donna LaMagna
  Senior Assistant General Counsel
  Mercer, A MarshMcLennan business

  JillAllison Opell
  Foley & Lardner LLP

  Keynote Speaker:
  My Chi To
  Executive Deputy Superintendent, Insurance Division
  New York Department of Financial Services

  Welcome and Introduction:

  Frederic M. Garsson
  Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

  Insurance M&A Boom:

  Lorraine D. Mandel (Panel Leader)
  FINRA Arbitrator, General Counsel, XL Group (ret.)

  Rajab S. Abbassi
  Kirkland & Ellis LLP

  Jawad Haider
  Managing Director, Head of North America Insurance
  Citigroup Global Markets. Inc.

  Daniel A. Rabinowitz
  Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

  AI Panel:

  William Latza (Panel Leader)
  General Counsel
  Lemonade Insurance Company

  Patrick Hall
  Principal Scientist
  BNH.ai

  Elisabetta Russo
  ERM Advisor
  National Association of Insurance Commissioners

  Professor Daniel Schwarcz
  Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law
  University of Minnesota Law School

  Commissioners’ Roundtable:

  Scott Fischer (Panel Leader)
  DLA Piper

  TK Keen
  Administrator
  Oregon Division of Financial Regulation

  Chlora Lindley-Myers
  Director
  Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance

  Doug Slape, CFE, CISA
  Acting Commissioner of Insurance
  Texas Department of Insurance
  

• 9:00 am – 9:05 am    
  Welcome and Introduction
  Frederic Garsson

  9:05 am – 9:25 am  
  Keynote Address: My Chi To
  JillAllison Opell and Donna LaMagna

  9:25 am – 9:30 am
  Break

  9:30 am – 10:30 am       
  The Insurance M&A Boom:  Opportunities across Sectors; Consolidation; New Areas for Growth; Transaction Structures; and the Regulatory Response
  Lorraine D. Mandel (Panel Leader), Rajab S. Abbassi, Jawad Haider, Daniel A. Rabinowitz

  10:30 am – 10:35 am
  Break

  10:35 am – 11:35 am  
  Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Discrimination in Insurance –How Digital Technology Is Changing Risk-Based Underwriting, Ethics and Fairness  
  William Latza (Panel Leader), Patrick Hall, Elisabetta Russo, Professor Daniel Schwarcz

  11:35 am – 11:40 am
  Break

  11:40 am – 1:00 pm
  Commissioners Roundtable
  Scott Fischer (Panel Leader), TK Keen,  Chlora Lindley-Myers, Doug Slape

• New York: 4.0 Professional Practice
  New Jersey: 4.0 General
  California: 4.0 General
  Pennsylvania: 3.0 General

  General
  Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

• This program has been generously sponsored by:
  
  

  

  Sponsoring Association Committee:
  Insurance Law, Frederic M. Garsson, Chair

  Sponsorship Opportunities are Available! Please Contact:
  Angie Avila, Manager, Membership Outreach and Sponsorships | (212) 382-6608 | aavila@nycbar.org