WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- State insurance
regulators monitor homeowners property insurance markets as part of
their mission to protect consumers, hold insurers accountable, and
ensure fair, competitive, and healthy insurance markets. Under
their regulatory authority, state Departments of Insurance
routinely collect data from insurance companies to better
understand market dynamics. Today, state insurance regulators have
united to issue a comprehensive, multi-state data call coordinated
by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to
collect and analyze data covering more than 80% of the U.S.
property insurance market by premium volume.
The Property & Casualty Market Intelligence Data Call (PCMI)
will gather data from more than 400 property insurers operating
locally and across the country to give state insurance regulators a
clear sense of what is happening in their individual property
markets and the nation overall.
State insurance regulators collaboratively developed the PCMI
data call under the coordination of the NAIC's Property and
Casualty Insurance (C) Committee, chaired by Alan McClain, Commissioner of the Arkansas
Insurance Department.
In early 2023, NAIC Members adopted a charge for the Property
and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee to "Assist state insurance
regulators in better assessing their markets and insurer
underwriting practices by developing property market data
intelligence so regulators can better understand how markets are
performing in their states, and identify potential new coverage
gaps, including changes in deductibles and coverage types, and
affordability and availability issues."
Rising property insurance costs and coverage challenges
underscore the importance of this collective effort. As regulators
manage market uncertainty, the wide-ranging data call will provide
deeper insights into property insurance market costs, coverages,
and protection gaps amid the increasing frequency and severity of
natural disasters, escalating reinsurance costs, and continued
inflationary pressures.
"The PCMI data call represents the collaborative, nonpartisan
work that state insurance regulators have undertaken through the
NAIC to address the critical challenge of the affordability and
availability of homeowners' insurance and the financial health of
insurance companies," said NAIC President and Connecticut
Insurance Commissioner Andrew N.
Mais.
"We as state insurance regulators are the experts in our
individual insurance markets. We are on the front lines every day
helping consumers navigate interactions with insurance carriers,
and we have the regulatory authority to make sure that insurers
make good on their promises," Mais said. "That is why we are
taking the lead in issuing this data call to collect critical
information from the insurance sector."
Under the state-based system of insurance regulation, state
insurance Commissioners work to promote the stability of insurance
marketplaces that include consumers, businesses, and insurance
companies. Data is essential to making good decisions to protect
consumers.
"The Property & Casualty Market Intelligence Data Call will
provide a more holistic view of the property insurance market
within our individual states and across the nation," said
Alan McClain, Commissioner of the
Arkansas Insurance Department and chair of the NAIC Property and
Casualty Committee. "Many individual states already collect
ZIP-code-level data on property markets, but not all states gather
granular data on how this translates to availability and
affordability of coverage for consumers in some areas. The data
call intends to address this insight gap."
The data template and related criteria asks property and
casualty insurers representing a significant market share of
homeowners' insurance coverage to submit ZIP-code-level data across
the U.S. on premiums, policies, claims, losses, limits,
deductibles, non-renewals, and coverage types. In all, state
insurance regulators seek more than 70 data points. All homeowners'
insurers subject to the data call will have 90 days to submit their
information.
The Property & Casualty Market Intelligence Data Call comes
at a critical juncture in U.S. history as the increasing frequency
and severity of weather events, rising reinsurance costs, and
inflationary pressures are making property insurance availability
and affordability more challenging for a growing number of regions
across the nation. These dynamics can vary within a relatively
small geographic area, so while a state's property insurance market
may be generally healthy overall, there can be localized protection
gaps that challenge certain communities.
The Property & Casualty Market Intelligence Data Call is
part of a long-term strategy to gain more insight into the health
of property markets at both the state and national level in order
to inform regulator insights, help assess market concentrations and
competitiveness, and identify areas in need of mitigation and
resilience efforts to ensure that consumers continue to have access
to the coverage they need to safeguard their financial wellbeing
and their family's future.
NAIC Members also have agreed to share an anonymized subset of
the data collected with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's
Federal Insurance Office (FIO) to avoid undue duplication of
efforts and compliance burdens on the U.S. insurance industry.
Access the public Property & Casualty Market Intelligence
Data Call webpage here.
About the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners
As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in
the United States, the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise,
data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively
regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S.
standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance
regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S.
territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish
standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate
regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and
represents the collective views of state regulators domestically
and internationally.
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