FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK
IN REP. MATT LEHMAN, NCOIL PRESIDENT
I hope you are all staying safe and in good health. This is certainly not the column that I thought I would be writing at this point in my term as NCOIL President. I hope that this column will provide some insight and clarity on NCOIL’s activities during these unprecedented times. Rep. Matt Lehman, IN President Thomas B. Considine NCOIL CEO Asm. Ken Cooley, CA Vice President
Meeting Updates:
The NCOIL Summer Meeting in Jersey City in July has been changed. Since we are no longer able to meet in Jersey City, the NCOIL officers and staff have been working diligently to come up with an alternative. We are working to make a final decision and plan to share this information with you in the next few weeks. I was really looking forward to having our Summer Meeting in Jersey City and enjoying the views from the banks of the lower Hudson River. Luckily, NCOIL staff was able to work with the hotel and we will now be having our 2022 Summer Meeting at the same hotel.
Additionally, the Fifth Annual NCOIL DC Fly-In and the CIP Planning Meeting have been changed from their original June dates. The Fly-In will now be held on September 22nd – 23rd, followed by the CIP Planning Meeting on September 24th. A reception for the CIP Planning Meeting will be held on the evening of September 23rd with meetings beginning the following day.
For those of you who cannot attend any in-person meeting we have in Washington, DC due to company travel restrictions or other reasons, we strongly encourage you to send someone from the DC metro area to represent your organization. Your participation in NCOIL discussions is very important to us in creating sound public policy.
COVID-19 and Business Interruption Coverage:
NCOIL has been playing a very active role in communicating our position on business interruption insurance coverage and COVID-19. If you’re reading this column, you most likely have been following the actions Congress and several states have taken to introduce legislation that would retroactively enact business interruption coverage into existing policies despite an absence of the physical damage required in property policies and/or express exclusions for communicable diseases in those policies.
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