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Systemic Risk Oversight And The Shifting Balance Of State And Federal Authority Over Insurance
Systemic Risk Oversight And The Shifting Balance Of State And Federal Authority Over Insurance
Patricia A. McCoy
The state-based model of U.S. insurance regulation has been remarkably enduring to date, in part because the traditional rationales for a greater federal role – efficiency, uniformity, and consumer protection – have not succeeded in displacing it. However, the 2008 financial crisis, the federal government’s unprecedented bailouts of parts of the insurance sector, and the need for a coordinated international approach radically shifted the debate about the proper allocation of power between the federal government and the states by supplanting traditional concerns about efficiency, uniformity, and consumer protection in insurance with a new federal mission to control systemic risk. Unprepared …