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The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) is forming an NCOIL Special Committee on Race in Insurance Underwriting.
Matt Lehman, the president of the Manasquan, New Jersey-based group, announced the creation of the panel Friday, at an in-person NCOIL meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.
Resources
- A copy of the NCOIL committee announcement is available here.
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Lehman is an insurance broker in Fort Wayne, Ind. He serves in the Indiana state House as a Democrat.
New York state Sen. Neil Breslin, D-Delmar, N.Y., will chair the committee, NCOIL said.
Lehman said in a statement about the new panel that NCOIL officers agreed that NCOIL needs to take a more active role in framing the discussions around race and insurance underwriting.
"By no means have we sat idly by on the sidelines as society has confronted these issues, but we all agreed that, as an organization comprised of state insurance legislators who are charged with developing and making law, NCOIL's voice needs to be heard," Lehman said in the statement.
The new committee will "study race-related issues in insurance underwriting and work to maintain the proper constitutional jurisdiction of state legislatures over the significant public policy issues related to regulating the business of insurance," Breslin said in a statement of his own.
NCOIL wants to make sure that any decisions made on such issues are made with input from state insurance legislators, Breslin said.
The committee will hold hearings at the four-day NCOIL annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, which is set to start Dec. 9.
