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  • Wolters Kluwer identifies top compliance challenges for U.S. insurers

    November 29, 2022 by Wolters Kluwer GRC

    BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The U.S. insurance industry’s top market conduct compliance challenges continue to relate to various claims handling requirements, including timeliness, required disclosures, along with payments and grievance and appeal processes—as well as underwriting, rating, marketing and producer requirements. This annual, comprehensive review by Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions of U.S. insurers’ market conduct enforcement actions is based on public regulatory data from 2021, examining the market conduct actions of U.S. property and casualty, life, and health insurers, including exams and other enforcement actions.

    Now in its 18th year, the Top 10 market conduct actions review serves as a reminder of the ongoing challenges insurers face in managing the risk of noncompliance. Insurers can use the results of this annual review as a compliance aid in their own internal compliance audits.

    “Managing compliance risk is a significant concern for insurers,” said Steven Meirink, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions. “However, monitoring the changing regulatory requirements and the enforcement action environment using a compliance program management approach can be instrumental in fostering insurers’ market conduct compliance.”

    The following are listings of recent, top compliance issues determined in market conduct actions across the U.S. by state insurance regulators. As in prior years, these issues are primarily found in insurers’ claims, underwriting, and sales processes:

    Top 10 Market Conduct Criticisms for Property and Casualty Insurers

    1. Failure to acknowledge, pay, investigate or deny claims within specified timeframes
    2. Failure to provide required compliant notices and disclosures in claims processing
    3. Using unapproved/unfiled rates and rules, rating errors
    4. Failure to process total loss claims properly
    5. Failure to issue correct payments and/or compliant denial notices
    6. Failure to cancel, non-renew, decline, or increase premium in accordance with requirements
    7. Failure to adhere to producer appointment, termination, records, reporting and/or licensing requirements
    8. Failure to provide required compliant notices and disclosures in underwriting processes
    9. Improper/incomplete documentation of claim files
    10. Improper/incomplete documentation of underwriting files

    Top 10 Market Conduct Criticisms for Life and Health Insurers

    1. Failure to adhere to required claims utilization review, grievance and appeal processes, including timeframes and disclosures
    2. Failure to pay claims properly in accordance with policy provisions and comply with claim denial requirements
    3. Failure to acknowledge, pay, investigate, or deny claims within specified timeframes
    4. Failure to provide required and compliant claims, underwriting and policyholder disclosures and notices
    5. Failure to use licensed and/or appointed producers, provide proper notification of producer appointments or terminations, or to maintain appropriate documentation
    6. Use of unfiled/unapproved or noncompliant forms; unfiled/unapproved rates
    7. Failure to adhere to replacement requirements
    8. Failure to maintain adequate/complete claims, underwriting and complaint documentation
    9. Failure to adhere to suitability requirements
    10. Failure to adhere to advertising requirements

    While these Top 10 lists provide insight into insurers’ continuing compliance risk challenges, other noncompliance issues include failure to perform required audits of third-party administrators, complaint handling timeframes and policyholder service.

    The market conduct examination process for insurance companies is complex, time-consuming and costly. To learn more, access Wolters Kluwer’s September 2022 webinars, which focused on Top 10 property and casualty market conduct actions as well as Top 10 life and health market conduct actions. Wolters Kluwer’s Exam & Management solutions help insurance companies in managing these compliance challenges.

    Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions is a market leader and trusted provider of risk management and regulatory compliance solutions and services to U.S. banks, credit unions, insurers and securities firms. The business, which sits within Wolters Kluwer’s Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) division, helps these financial institutions efficiently manage risk and regulatory compliance obligations, and gain the insights needed to focus on better serving their customers and growing their business.

    About Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance

    Governance, Risk & Compliance is a division of Wolters Kluwer, which provides legal and banking professionals with solutions to help ensure compliance with ever-changing regulatory and legal obligations, manage risk, increase efficiency, and produce better business outcomes. GRC offers a portfolio of technology-enabled expert services and solutions focused on legal entity compliance, legal operations management, banking product compliance, and banking regulatory compliance.

    Wolters Kluwer (AEX: WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare; tax and accounting; governance, risk and compliance; and legal and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Wolters Kluwer reported 2021 annual revenues of €4.8 billion. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,800 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.

    Contacts

    Media Contacts for Wolters Kluwer GRC (including Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions; Wolters Kluwer Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting; Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, and Wolters Kluwer CT Corporation):

    Paul Lyon
    Senior Director, Global Corporate Communications: Global Marketing, Communications & Planning
    Governance, Risk & Compliance Division
    Wolters Kluwer
    Office +44 20 3197 6586
    Paul.Lyon@wolterskluwer.com

    David Feider
    Corporate Communications Manager, Banking & Regulatory Compliance
    Governance, Risk & Compliance Division
    Wolters Kluwer
    Tel: +1 612-852-7966
    David.Feider@wolterskluwer.com

    Originally Posted at BusinessWire on November 29, 2022 by Wolters Kluwer GRC.

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