Sherrod Brown

  • 2022 0316 - Letter - Sherrod Brown to FIO and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners - 3p
    • 2022 0416 - Insurance Circular Letter No. 5 - NYSID -  [link]
      • 2022 0425 - Sullivan and Cromwell - 8p
    • 2022 0531 - Letter - NAIC Response to Senator Sherrod Brown regarding Private Equity - 11p
  • (p5) - Even if we concede these differences, insurance policy holders can “run,” just differently.
    • A life insurance policy is not indentured servitude.
    • Policyholders can cash out whole life and annuity products, and halt premium payments on term products.
    • Indeed, one of the biggest life insurance failures – $15 billion Executive Life – suffered debilitating policy surrenders contributing to its failure in 1991.
  • (p5) - I question the argument that insurance organizations should have weaker bank/thrift holding company protections because their insurance policy holders can’t easily cash out if they make bad investments.

2014 0310 - Letter - Sheila C. Bair to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) - 6p

Finding the Right Capital Regulations for Insurers, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 

  • Finding the Right Capital Regulations for Insurers, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) - [PDF-105p, VIDEO-Senate]
    • 2014 0310 - Letter - Sheila C. Bair to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) - 6p
      • (p5) - I question the argument that insurance organizations should have weaker bank/thrift holding company protections because their insurance policy holders can’t easily cash out if they make bad investments.
  • The State of the Insurance Industry and Insurance Regulation, Richard Shelby (R-AL) - [PDF-56p, VIDEO-Senate] 
    • Sen. Sherrod Brown Opening Statement - [link] 
    • Insurance is an area of great interest to me.
      • In addition to the millions of insurance consumers in the state of Ohio, the city of Columbus is second in the nation behind Hartford in concentration of insurance jobs.
    • Insurance became an area of great interest to all of us in 2008, when the near-failure and bailout of the insurance company AIG was a central event in the financial crisis.
    • ⇒  Finally, I am interested in hearing about how state and federal regulators are identifying and addressing emerging risks in the insurance markets, including captive reinsurance, private equity ownership, and reaching for yield.
    • ⇒  We should not take our eyes off potential sources of risk to policyholders and more broadly to the financial system
  • 2019 0411 - Press Release - Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to FSOC (Steven T. Mnuchin - Chair) - 3p
    • Leveraged Loans
  • 2019 0419 - Press Release - Brown: Mnuchin Must Take Action To Address Emerging Threats To The Economy - [link]
  • (p2) - Statement of Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
    •  Our State-based insurance system is unique, as we know, throughout the world. It has largely served us well.
      • We should fight to maintain it, including by rejecting efforts to impose the Solvency II accord, Europe’s insurance capital rules, on our insurers.
      • At the same time, it means that companies that want to operate internationally face challenges.
      • We need a system that works, too, for them.
    • (p2) - The financial crisis of several years ago, almost a decade ago, showed there were shortcomings in the consolidated supervision of international insurance conglomerates.
      • Since the crisis, State insurance regulators have worked on proposals to develop comprehensive supervision and capital frameworks for insurance companies.
      • While some progress has been made, there is clearly much to be done.

2017 0502 - GOV (Senate) - Examining the U.S.-EU Covered Agreement