The American Property Casualty Insurance coverage Affiliation (APCIA), the nationwide commerce affiliation for house, auto, and enterprise insurers, has revealed the advocacies it’ll prioritize for the brand new 12 months, noting the affiliation will concentrate on 9 explicit areas all through 2024.

“This 12 months, APCIA will concentrate on proactively participating in 9 high-priority areas, along with tackling the day-to-day challenges dealing with the property-casualty insurance coverage trade. Foremost amongst these precedence areas is working to curb rampant authorized system abuse, in coordination with the broader enterprise group,” stated Stef Zielezienski, government vice chairman and chief authorized officer at APCIA. “The abuses of our judicial system by the plaintiffs’ bar and their allies are wide-ranging, impacting insurance coverage affordability and availability in lots of states, in addition to the flexibility of companies to stay viable.”

The precedence areas embrace the next:

1. working to curb rampant authorized system abuse
2. supporting risk-based pricing and associated score and underwriting instruments
3. addressing innovation, regulatory modernization, insurance coverage trade expertise and financial empowerment
4. disaster insurance coverage challenges (together with adoption of related suggestions from the federal Wildland Hearth Mitigation & Administration Fee Report)
5. making certain the sustainability and soundness of the state-based staff’ compensation system
6. defending insurance coverage contract certainty in opposition to legislative, regulatory, or judicial overreach
7. addressing car insurance coverage price drivers
8. preserving a sound taxation construction for property-casualty insurance coverage
9. advancing worldwide commerce, market entry, and regulatory modernization

Zielezienski says the affiliation can even work on addressing considerations over mandates that prohibit insurers from finishing up enterprise in addition to false narratives within the trade and figuring out authorities intrusion dangers.

“APCIA can even deal with vital points that lower throughout a number of precedence areas, together with opposing arbitrary and prescriptive ESG-related mandates that inhibit insurers from finishing up the enterprise of insurance coverage, addressing false narratives perpetrated concerning the trade, and figuring out authorities intrusion danger that threatens the insurance coverage affordability and availability to customers,” he stated.

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