Back-to-Basics: A Collaborative Effort of the NAIC’s CIPR and Griffith

Back to Basics: Life & Health Guaranty Associations

This installment, the first in a two-part series on the guaranty system, explores the role of life/health (L/H) guaranty associations in protecting consumers and ensuring market stability. This non-partisan and non-advocative session provides foundational insights into the origins, evolution, and current status of L/H guaranty associations. The program also explores how these associations integrate into the solvency framework from a regulatory perspective, supporting informed policy discussions.

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Back to Basics: P&C Guaranty Funds

This session, the second of the two-part Guaranty System series, focuses on P&C guaranty funds. It provides foundational insights into the history, evolution, and current role of P&C guaranty funds, highlighting their integration into the state-based regulatory system's solvency framework. This non-partisan, non-advocative program is ideal for those seeking to enhance their understanding of this essential component of insurance policy and regulation.

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Back-to-Basics: Climate Risk — Financial Resilience

The Institutes Griffith Foundation was pleased to collaborate with the NAIC’s CIPR to present another installment of our Back-to-Basics series, the second of our two-part offering on climate risk and resilience. The non-partisan and non-advocative program aimed to provide foundational knowledge to help inform important policy conversations. Complimentary on-demand viewing is available at this link.

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Back-to-Basics: Climate Risk—Physical Resilience

The Institutes Griffith Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the NAIC’s CIPR to present the next installment of our Back-to-Basics series, which focuses on climate risk. This non-partisan, non-advocative program serves to provide foundational knowledge aimed at helping to inform policy-related conversations. This webinar will:

  • explore the current climate risk landscape and the myriad challenges and opportunities presented;

  • discuss the promise of resilience and mitigation as important tools in the risk management toolbox; and

  • consider both research and real-world efforts to create more resilient communities.

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Surplus Lines: Back to Basics

The Institutes Griffith Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the NAIC’s CIPR to present the next installment of our Back-to-Basics series, which focuses on surplus lines. This non-partisan, non-advocative program serves to provide foundational knowledge aimed at helping to inform policy-related conversations. This webinar will cover the foundation and history of surplus lines, explore current market challenge and opportunities, and examine the regulatory framework. 

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Reinsurance: Back to Basics

The Institutes Griffith Foundation is pleased to collaborate with the NAIC’s CIPR to present the next installment of our Back-to-Basics series, which will focus on reinsurance. This non-partisan and non-advocative webinar aims to provide foundational knowledge to help inform important policy conversations. Reinsurance is a crucial tool for insurers to help manage their risk profile and create stability in insurance markets. In this session, we'll cover the foundations of reinsurance, how it is used by insurers, and factors impacting the reinsurance market such as natural catastrophes.

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Insurance Fraud: Back to Basics

This pre-recorded broadcast, the most recent in our “Back to Basics” series of webinars, explores the topic of insurance fraud.  Speakers include Dr. J Bradley Karl of Florida State University, Fred Lohman of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, Trinidad Navarro of the Delaware Department of Insurance, and J. Michael Skiba of Dr. Fraud Training Group.The 90-minute session: explores the impact fraud has on insurance; discusses strategies for combating fraud; provides an overview of how regulators are tackling the issue; and considers the innovative ways technology and big data are being used to identify fraud.

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Captives: Back to Basics

We are pleased to share this recorded broadcast in partnership with Center for Insurance Policy and Research on the fundamentals, importance, and challenges of captives in risk management.

Speakers include Rob Hoyt of the University of Georgia and Steve Kinion, ACI, Director of the Bureau of Captive and Financial Insurance Products and the Delaware Department of Insurance. 

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