NCOIL Concludes Successful Spring Meeting in Las Vegas, NV
Manasquan, NJ – The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), the nation’s premier legislator-led insurance public policy organization, concluded a successful 2022 Spring National Meeting (Meeting) on March 6th in Las Vegas, NV. In what was the organization’s first of three scheduled National Meetings for 2022, there were 296 participants consisting of 52 legislators from 23 states, 16 first-time attendee legislators from 10 states, six Insurance Commissioners (or equivalent), and 11 insurance departments represented. These legislator participation numbers represent a new all-time high for an NCOIL Spring Meeting. NCOIL’s seven policy Committees all met and discussed various critical issues in insurance legislation.
“In my first meeting as President, much was done which laid the groundwork for what I expect will be another very successful year for NCOIL,” said California Assemblyman Ken Cooley. “We continue to have strong turnouts for our National Meetings – especially the number of first-time legislators. Overall, this was the most highly attended NCOIL Spring Meeting since 2008. Now is a tremendous time to be involved with NCOIL and the organization is rightfully being recognized as a top-notch forum for legislators and interested parties to gather, discuss, and debate critical insurance issues.”
NCOIL CEO, Commissioner Tom Considine said, “I continue to be thrilled with the number of first-time legislators attending our meetings. As an organization principally represented by legislators, term limits and legislators leaving office for different opportunities are things we must constantly contend with, so seeing new faces at our meetings is always great and a positive sign.” Considine continued, “This Meeting was again extremely productive in terms of serving as an educational forum for legislators and interested parties and developing sound insurance public policy that legislators can take back to their states for review and introduction.”
The Joint State-Federal Relations & International Insurance Issues Committee, chaired by Minnesota Senator Paul Utke, met on Friday morning and adopted two Resolutions, both sponsored by Asm. Cooley: Resolution in Support of the People and Government of Ukraine; and Resolution Supporting Independent Contractor Status for Insurance Agents and Other Licensed Financial Professions. The Committee also heard from Loren Adler, Associate Director at the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy on the implementation of the new federal balance billing law – The No Surprises Act – and from Andrew Biggs, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute on the status and future of the social security system.
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