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Back-to-Basics: Reciprocal Exchanges
The Institutes Griffith Foundation and the NAIC’s Center for Insurance Policy and Research (CIPR) recently collaborated on the latest Back-to-Basics webinar, Reciprocal Exchanges. This session examines the origins, structure, and regulation of reciprocals, with insights from David T. Russell, Ph.D. (California State University, Northridge), Brian W. Bolash (Erie Insurance), and Bruce Jenson (NAIC).
ON-DEMAND DISCUSSIONS
The Impact of Current Economic Conditions on the Insurance Ecosystem
Recently, Frank Paul Tomasello, Executive Director of The Institutes Griffith Foundation visited with Michel Leonard, PhD, CBE, Chief Economist and Data Scientist at the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) and adjunct faculty member at NYU's Economics Department. They discussed the current state of the economy and considered implications for the insurance ecosystem. Some covered topics include: the resilience of the economy; inflation; and, the current interest rate environment as related to the insurance ecosystem. This discussion is strictly informational and does not take a stance on any issues.
ON-DEMAND DISCUSSION
2025 Financial Regulators Program: Presenters’ Perspectives
In this series of conversations, presenters from the annual Financial Regulators Program (a multi-day event, which takes place on the campus of the Katie School of Insurance at Illinois State University) visit with us to share insight and expertise on topics of relevance to financial regulators of insurance.
These short-duration video segments offer a glimpse into the material that these thought-leaders covered during the multi-day, in-person event. That event and these video segments are a collaborative effort of IREF, the Katie School of Insurance at Illinois State University and The Institutes Griffith Foundation.