Government Hearings - 2004

  • 2004 0331 - GOV (House) - Working with State Regulators to Increase Insurance Choices for Consumers
    • [PDF-205p, VIDEO-?] - <mp3, mp4> - R 
    • CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America
      • One would be, for example, term life insurance, I think you could totally deregulate.
        • And people understand term life insurance and so on.
      • You get into some of the cash value products, people are very confused.
        • They need help. They need information. It is a very difficult product.
    • House - Committee on Financial Serices - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises 
  • 2004 0909 - GOV (House) - G.I. Finances: Protecting Those Who Protect Us, Richard Baker (R-LA)  ---  [BonkNote]
    • [PDF-176p, VIDEO-?]
    • ACLI - Testimony - Frank Keating - 6p
    • House - Financial Services Committee - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
  • 2004 0922 - GOV (Senate) - Examination and Oversight of the Condition and Regulation of the Insurance Industry, Richard Shelby (R-AL)  ---  [BonkNote]
    • [PDF-104p,  VIDEO - Error] - <mp3, mp4> - R 
    • ACLI / Prudential - Arthur F. Ryan, Chairman, American Council of Life Insurers and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Financial
    • CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America - 31p
    • IMSA - Brian K. Atchinson, Executive Director, Insurance Marketplace Standards Association 
    • NAIC - Gregory Serio, Chair, Government Affairs Task Force, National Association of Insurance Commissioners and Superintendent, New York Department of Insurance
    • AIA - USAA - William H. McCartney, Senior Vice President, Government and Industry Relations - 6p
    • Error - banking.senate.gov/hearings/examination-and-oversight-of-the-condition-and-regulation-of-the-insurance-industry
    • Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
  • 2004 1116 - GOV (Senate) - Oversight Hearing on Insurance Brokerage Practices, including Potential Conflicts of Interest and the Adequacy of the Current Regulatory Framework, CSPAN (Insurance Brokerage and Regulation Practices) - Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-IL)
    • [PDF-166p, VIDEO-CSPAN] - <mp3, mp4>
    • Spitzer Investigations
    • Richard Blumenthal (as Attorney General - Connecticut)
      • Currently (as of 2021) Congressman (D-CT)
    • John Garamendi - as Insurance Commissioner California
    • Gregory Serio - Superintendent of Insurance, State of New York, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
    • Eliot Spitzer - Attorney General - New York 
    • CFA - J. Robert Hunter, Director of Insurance, Consumer Federation of America
      • Complexity produces weak regulation, Unleash the FTC, Anti-trust, Cartel rating organizations, Spitzer report - Regulators have utterly failed, 
    • Senate - Committee on Governmental Affairs - Subcommittee Financial Management, The Budget, And International Security