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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 At the beginning of the year, we published a short report on the surge in year-end insurance regulatory activity concerning climate change risks (available here). January was another busy month, and we report below on noteworthy developments in Bermuda, Canada and the United States. IN DEPTH As readers will know, outside of the United Kingdom and European Union, most insurance regulators are only now beginning to grapple with how to incorporate climate change risk into their regulatory frameworks. And in the European Union and the United Kingdom, debate c...

Climate, AI, Privacy, Racial Bias Among State Insurance Regulators’ 2021 Priorities February 10, 2021 The country’s insurance regulators are vowing to prioritize the monitoring of the use of consumer and non-consumer data by companies, the use of artificial intelligence, and the availability and affordability of insurance products for racial minorities. They say they will also remain active responding to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and its impact on consumers and insurance markets. The state regulators’ organization, the National Association of I...

Vaccines offer light at end of the COVID-19 tunnel Written By: Post Bulletin Editorial Board | 6:00 am, Dec. 29, 2020 × Rochester's work on local climate efforts was recently honored as part of the 14th annual Climate Protection Awards. “We are honored and proud to receive this recognition from the U.S. Conference of Mayors,” Norton said in a statement announcing the recognition. Under Norton, the city established a Sustainability and Resiliency Task Force that was launched in the spring of 2020. The task force’s mandate is to develop a Sustainability and Resilience Action Pl...

Restaurants of the Hazleton area are getting an early Christmas present — more business traffic. The Greater Hazleton Recovery and Resiliency Task Force is using five Food Trail Passports established through county CARES Act grant funding as a framework for a new contest. Having started Friday, participating restaurants will be featured in the Standard-Speaker and on the Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce Facebook Page. To enter, participants must “like” the Chamber’s Facebook post, and share it to their own timeline with a comment that mentions one or more of the restau...

Local efforts among 12 winners of 2020 Mayors’ Climate Protection Awards. Written By: Post Bulletin staff reports | 9:48 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × Rochester and Mayor Kim Norton are among 12 cities and mayors recognized Friday for their local climate efforts as part of the 14th Annual Climate Protection Awards. “We are honored and proud to receive this recognition from the U.S. Conference of Mayors,” Norton said in a statement announcing the recognition through the initiative, sponsored by the United States Conference of Mayors and Walmart. “This award represents our work to inc...