Regulatory Updates

Louisiana originally issued information regarding the Security Program of the Insurance Data Security Law on June 3, 2001. This announcement provides updated guidance on the standards applicable to licensees relative to data security.

Effective immediately, the list contains all eligible surplus lines insurers.

NIPR is reporting that 150,000 Appointment records (active and terminated) were missing from the Producer Database as a result of a migration issue. This will be corrected tonight.

Virginia will charge a reinstatement fee for an LOA if the license associated was already renewed and the LOA was within a year of its expiration date.

Idaho welcomes their new Producer Licensing Supervisor, Lori Thomason. Also a thank you and congratulations is in order for Lisa Tordjman on her well deserved retirement.

Starting Feb 3, 2022, NIPR will return the error "NPN is not numeric" when an NPN is submitted containing non numeric characters. Prior to this adjustment, NIPR sent back a blank response.

On February 3rd, 2022, NIPR will enforce four maximum report options requested within a single Company Specialized Report. This is already in place when the request is placed through the PDB web application (GUI).

Louisiana is removing the Applicant.Tax\_NumSocial Security Number requirement on March 11th, 2022. This will apply to individual applicants for both appointments and terminations.

District of Columbia has announced that their 2022 company appointment (Producer and title) renewal period starts on March 3, 2022 and ends May 31, 2022. These payments will only be accepted electronically via NIPR.

With this amendment, no regulations or requirements have been changed. The phrasing of rules R590-157 will make the language more clear. See attachment for more details.