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Terror Cats: Tria’S Failure To Encourage A Private Market For Terrorism Insurance And How Federal Securitization Of Terrorism Risk May Be A Viable Alternative, Andrew Gerrish
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Credit Ratings In Insurance Regulation: The Missing Piece Of Financial Reform, John Patrick Hunt
Credit Ratings In Insurance Regulation: The Missing Piece Of Financial Reform, John Patrick Hunt
Washington and Lee Law Review
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 directed federal financial regulators to remove credit ratings from their rules, but had nothing to say about the use of credit ratings by state insurance regulators. This omission is significant because insurers own nearly twice as many foreign, corporate, and municipal bonds as banks do. During the 2000s, state insurance regulators came to rely increasingly on rating agencies rather than the regulators’ in-house valuation office to assess the credit risks of these holdings. After the perceived widespread failure of ratings in the crisis, the insurance regulators did undertake a …