A team at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is working on an update of the standard Life Insurance Buyer's Guide.
The NAIC's Life Insurance Buyer's Guide Working Group held one conference call meeting on the topic earlier this month and scheduled a second conference call meeting for Feb. 7.
The group has posted an example of a life insurance calculator on its section of the NAIC's website, a consumer guide prepared by the American Council of Life Insurers, and one regulator's proposed revision of the existing NAIC guide.
The NAIC is a Kansas City, Missouri-based group for state insurance regulators. It has no direct authority to change state insurance regulations and procedures, but states can choose to use NAIC models as the basis for creating their own laws, regulations, consumer publications and technical guidance materials.
Regulators have been talking about updating the buyer's guide at NAIC meetings for months.
In April, for example, participants in a Life Insurance and Annuities Committee session at an in-person NAIC meeting in New Orleans said the American Academy of Actuaries wanted to see the NAIC rewrite the guide. The ACLI told the committee it would not necessarily mind seeing the NAIC rewrite the guide, according to the meeting minutes.
