Government Hearings - 2006

  • 2006 0612 - GOV (House) - Commercial Insurance Modernization 
  • 2006 0620 - GOV (Senate) - The McCarran-Ferguson Act: Implications of Repealing the Insurers' Antitrust Exemption, S. Hrg. 109-557, Arlen Specter (D/R/D-PA)
  • 2006 0628 - GOV (House) - Investor protection: a review of plaintiffs' attorney abuses in securities litigation and legislative remedies
    • House - Committee on Financial Services - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises
  • 2006 0711 - GOV (Senate) - Insurance Regulation Reform, Richard Shelby (R-AL)
    • [PDF-152p, VIDEO-Senate-error] - <mp3, mp4> - R-yes
    • ABIA - Alan F. Liebowitz President, Old Mutual (Bermuda) Ltd., On Behalf of the American Bankers Insurance Association - 11p
    • CFA - Travis Plunkett, Legislative Director - Testimony - 47p
    • NAIC - Alessandro Iuppa - Maine Superintendent of Insurance,  President, National Association of Insurance Commissioners - Testimony - 40p
    • 2006 0711 - GOV - S - NAMIC - Robert A. Wadsworth Chairman and CEO Preferred Mutual Insurance Company - 11p
    • Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 
  • 2006 0718 - GOV (Senate) - Perspectives on Insurance Regulation, Wayne Allard (R-CO)
    • [PDF-58p, VIDEO-Senate-error] - <mp3, mp4> - R-yes
    • Robert W. Klein, Ph.D. - Director of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research Georgia State University - Testimony - 32p
    • Scott E. Harrington, Ph.D., Alan B. Miller Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    • Senate - Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
  • 2006 0725 - GOV (Senate) - Regulation of Hedge Funds, Richard Shelby (R-AL)
    • [PDF-58p, VIDEO-CSPAN]
    • SEC - Christopher Cox, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
    • CFTC - Reuben Jeffery, III, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    • DOTT - Randal K. Quarles, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, Department of the Treasury
    • Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
  • 2006 0907 - GOV (House) - A Review of the Federal Home Loan Bank System:
    • House - Committee on Financial Services - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government 
  • 2006 0920 - GOV (House) - Improving Transparency in State Regulation of Insurer Investments, Richard Baker (R-LA)
  • 2006 1003 - GOV (House) - The Need for Insurance Regulatory Reform, Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
    • [PDF-163p, VIDEO-?] - <mp3, mp4> - R
    • ACLI - Condron Christopher M., Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, on behalf of the American Council of Life Insurers 
      • They just cannot.
      • You know, they NAIC cannot agree on what the reserving requirements will be on universal life insurance policies, or when they do agree, they cannot get all of the States to go along, and that is the frustration, I think, Commissioner Bell and all of the commissioners have always had with the NAIC.  (p35)
      • [Bonk: they = NAIC]
    • House - Committee on Financial Services - Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises